Growing up in the late 70′s early 80′s I had 2 ISOtip 7700 in my toolkit. My first 7700, was given to me by my mentor & friend, Sydney Thomasson WB8FYI for me to work on S100 bus system I was building as so not to cause static damage. He had that 7700 for several years before he gave it to me, so I assume it’s from the late 70′s

A few years later, I bought another 7700 so that I could work longer. I even had an ISOtip drill attachment for it.

After many years, many different jobs, different homes, marriage & family I lost track of those 7700s.

2 weeks ago I was helping some friends put in a couple XLR panels on a stage, and I used a blue 25w solder pencil. And I started explaining to my friends how I used to use ISOtip 7700s, and how much I actually loved those tools. I still recalled that I could be soldering within second of rotating and pressing that little round button.

I even tweeted about my love of my long lost ISOtip over the past few weeks.

Much to my surprise this week, I did a google search a few days later, wondering what ever happened to your company, since so many companies from that period, Beckman, Simpson, B&K, Heathkit, etc, seem to disappear in the early 90s. You can’t imagine my surprise when I learned that not only were you still in business, you still made the 7700 & what I never purchased, the 7800 ’60′

I ordered and received this yesterday my new 7800… and even did an unboxing sequence of receiving it. And this morning, while working in the basement, I found my long lost 7700s, with the original tips. While I can’t seem to find the chargers, I noticed that All-spec.com has them available, which is where I ordered my 7800 from.. So now, I will order a couple of new batteries & a charger.

I also found you on twitter… so now I look forward to following you and putting my new & old friends back to work.

Thank you for all the support your products have given me in over 30 years.

From Micheal in WV.

Take a look at the Iso-Tip website we inherited from Wahl Clipper in December 2008.

Really.

And so four months later in April 2009, we came up with this:

It’s not bad, but we wanted more interaction with you. So we lauched this blog, which, as you may have noticed has taken over our old Iso-Tip website.

And here we are, 12 months into ownership of Iso-Tip and starting a blog. It’s exciting. We have lots of great things planned for it. You can comment on and share any of our posts, become our fan on facebook and follow us on Twitter. Once we get the Hack Advice page up and running, you’ll be able to add your two cents there. We’ll be uploading videos, adding a How To page, product pictures (clever, right?), a full online store (eventually…for now you can find most everything through our link on Amazon or from our wonderful distributors) and a whole lot more. The plan is to create an enthusiastic community where  you’ll be able to find and share insight on all things related to Iso-Tip.

Have ideas or some great blogging advice for this site? We’d love to hear it!