[Elecraft] Prep time

[Mike Markowski]

Hi all,

I'm a week or two new to the list and am preparing to jump into a K2 
building project.  I need to upgrade some of my gadgets, though, and one 
is the DMM - my current one doesn't measure capacitance.  Does anyone 
have any recommendations?  Would the cheap one at

    http://multimeterwarehouse.com/DT9205f.htm

be good enough?  It's the age old challenge of trying to not spend too 
much but trying to not buy trash, too.  I remember someone's email 
signature from a few years ago that was along the lines of, "Engineers 
aren't cheap, they just optimize cost."  :-)

In that vein, any recommendations for a decent soldering station - maybe 
Jameco's analog, temp. controlled $58 one with a screwdriver tip?  It's 
Jameco part #229673 at

http://jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&productId=129019

The dinky soldering iron I have now has been used to successfully build 
a QRP rig and a variety of other things, but nothing has been nearly as 
expensive as a K2 either, so I figure it'd be wise to play it safe.

Thanks for any tips!  (Pardon the pun.)

Mike  AB3AP