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What's your favorite through-hole desoldering tool?

scottiebabe

I have a $5 solder sucker that is nothing fancy for desoldering through hole components. For occasional use it works well enough I suppose.

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There appears to be a number of "fancier" solder suckers on the market like this made in japan model:

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There are also some inexpensive vacuum desoldering tools, like:

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I don't know if it is total junk or a diamond in the rough...

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  • I could never work out how the cheap ones with seemingly plastic nozzles actually worked.  By the time you'd melted the solder moved the iron and put the pump in place, it had set again.  I presumed that the iron and the pump had to be in very close proximity but how then not to melt the nozzle??  Clearly I'm missing something, perhaps just technique.

  • in reply to Andrew J

    Some of the cheaper ones aren't very effective at all and as you say you need to get the nozzle in really close. They often have such a powerful spring that makes them jump wildly in use.

    The better ones have a much smoother action and much better suction so you can use them further from the soldering iron tip. They also tend to suck the molten solder right up into the body before it solidifies avoiding the tip from blocking. 

    Some don't have a safety guard for the plunger, which can cause injury or damage in use.

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  • in reply to Andrew J

    Some of the cheaper ones aren't very effective at all and as you say you need to get the nozzle in really close. They often have such a powerful spring that makes them jump wildly in use.

    The better ones have a much smoother action and much better suction so you can use them further from the soldering iron tip. They also tend to suck the molten solder right up into the body before it solidifies avoiding the tip from blocking. 

    Some don't have a safety guard for the plunger, which can cause injury or damage in use.

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