Hopefully Santa will have one for you if you've been nice this year. A couple of other things-- I recommend Micro-Mark's silver solder and flux combination, along with the foot switch. American Beauty has a web-site and several tutorial videos, and I highly recommend watching them, and following thier advise. You will be amazed at the small amount of solder you use. I used to go through bunches of solder and flux, now a little goes a long way. I'm still working on the solder roll that came with my set years ago. I do use Radio Shack paste flux occasionally, for certain applications, but the liquid Micro-Mark stuff is exceptional. I also used to burn my fingers a lot-- or I'd set the iron down and burn my bench or melt something while I was working-- that never happens anymore. It's almost impossible to burn anything with a resistance soldering unit. I can also use an Xacto "spare hands" clamp to solder at all kinds of crazy angles. By attaching the alligator clip to the metal frame of the Xacto "spare hands", and placing the part in one of the "hands", I touching the probe to any part of the PE part, and have an almost instant joint. I can also use a one pound block of steel with the alligator clips masking-taped to it if I need a large heat sink for small parts. In fact, I can masking tape a complicate part to a glass plate and solder intricate joints too, without disturbing adjacent joints-- can you imagine using masking tape as a clamping aide with an electric iron or a torch!?! You'd be amazed at what you can do with a resistance unit that you could never do with an electric iron or a torch. Hopefully Santa will come through for you!
VR, Russ

Whoa-- I just noted your post about the 1100W rig from American Beauty-- for sure stay away from that one-- that's an industrial rated rig used for manufacturing. I'd go for one of the smaller American Beauty units-- which is all you'd need for modeling, unless as Rob said-- you were welding armor plate!
VR, Russ

Yea, I agree, I have the 250w unit, and I am still learning how to use it. With the unit set nowhere near full power, I have literally VAPORIZED a small part before LOL!

Heh heh - I was joking with the big one .
Saw that " 1/4 inch diameter electrode " , couldn't resist .

Ya had me hook, line, and sinker, LOL!

....Which brings me back to my original comment about using the American Beauty machines-- follow thier great on-line videos and instructions-- too much wattage will literallly "vaporize" small PE-- trust me, I learned this the hard way too. These machines have a wide range of settings, and like anything else, take a little practice to learn how to use them. But they are sooo much better than irons or torches. I own an old iron, but I think it's buried and rusty somewhere in the bottom of a tool box since I use my AB for just about everything now-- even non- modeling stuff.