Awesome, thanks. I'll contact Hakko support and see what's up first.
True, now the adapters for the programmers on the other hand... Buying two to five or so adapters for my topmax2 would have easily doubled the price of it. As it turns out eetools have data sheets over the adapters so you can compare them to others. I did buy a sop44 to dip44 adapter for $10 shipped from aliexpress that worked great but it is sort of a gamble since they mostly sell funky 40pin adapters for the TL866.If you have the funds buy Fluke, Tek, EEtools, etc.
Nice! I have a Nikon stereo microscope head and ring light that I picked up for $50. Can you take some pics of where that arm from the base mounts to the head? I might just order one of those from Amazon if it looks like it may mount to it.
They had this one posted, but I would like a pic from the other angle to see the back side of this connection.