[Lee] has a Hakko FR301 desoldering gun and a Duratool knockoff. He freely admits that the Hakko is probably better, but he wonders if it’s good enough to justify being four times as expensive.

A desoldering pump, also called a solder sucker, is a device that creates a vacuum to suck up the molten solder from a joint. To use a desoldering pump, you need to heat up the joint with a ...

I’ve always been partial to desoldering braid, though I’ve started to come around on the vacuum pump depending on the situation. [Proto G] sent in an Instructable that outlines nine different ...