If you're going to play with PC boards, I'd really recommend investing in a Metcal. At least if it's going to stay on a bench. And the 500 series, not the budget ones. The tips are kind of expensive so you need to pre-tin when putting them back and otherwise take care of them. I've had the same set for 10 years and no problems. The temperature control and response to varying thermal loads is 2nd to none. The only iron that can go from the heavy connections in a Fender amp to SMT on a small circuit board.
My day job is electronics manufacturing. I've been an engineering manager at three different major EMS companies, and now spend my time with a large company in Mountain View flying back and forth to China getting them to do it right. And even there, where saving money is king, you still find Metcal irons up and down the assembly lines.
Those blue tilted face Wellers were the standard of the industry long ago, but we always had a pile of dead ones lying around. In spite of being more complicated, the Metcals rarely fail.