A follow up on my follow up.
The t3a I bought (well my wife did for Christmas) I was using with a real JBC tip was working great. I needed a different tip, so tried one that came with it….and it didn’t work, it heated up by 10 degrees and then did nothing else.
Thinking it was a one off, I took another one of the 3 supplied and…same result, flipped back to the original JBC and it worked straight off.
So tried the final bundled tip and that didn’t work either, 3 supplied tips of 3 different styles and none of them worked.
I contacted Axiun who after a few days of emailing told me there was an issue with the batch of tips mine were in, because it didn’t come direct from Axiun they said to contact the seller, and well, life is too short, so I bought a few others to try.
They turned up a while back, but i am away from home, my daughter posted them to me and I tried the new tips and they all worked without issue, they’re never going to be as good a original JBC tips but they work fine and thankfully both the handle and station is fine, I did worry that I had some fault with the station.