Solder Sucker Desoldering Pump Sucking Vacuum Desoldering Pump with Teflon Tip 7.5" Solder Sucker Silicone Desoldering Tool Desoldering Pumps Black Soldapullt

This thing is huge! By far the largest solder sucker I've ever used. It's the largest solder-related tool I have, including my solder station. It's so large, it doesn't even fit around most IC pins because they're too close together. Not only is it huge, but it also works great. I've used a number of suction gadgets, including some I've made myself, and even an actual vacuum cleaner. But this one out performs them all. Every time I use it, I've got a solid 95% chance it will remove all of the solder on the first attempt. The best part is it creates so much suction it doesn't even need to fit around most IC pins. It performs just as well several millimeters away from the solder joint. I suspect its size is the source of its power. You see, a lot of solder suckers keep themselves competitive by sticking with a gimmick. For example, creating a tight seal around the solder joint using a flexible silicon tube, using some double spring type of setup, using a lubed up tube, or by just being really cheap. But this solder sucker knows a bigger tube means more volume, which means more suction. When that button is pressed, it suddenly has a lot of volume to fill, and it will pull in anything that's close to it. So it's generating all of its power from its size alone. It's such a simple concept, it's a shame other solder suckers don't practice it. But now it's time to talk about the downsides. Luckily, only one comes to mind, but this too is related to its gargantuan size. I'm talking about how difficult it is to keep the solder sucker steady when I press the release button. Part of the problem is that the button is so close to the top, I can't grip it where it feels the most natural. It feels like gripping it near the tip is where I would have the most control, but I have to keep my hand closer to the top so I can press the button when the solder has liquefied. Combine that with the power that is generated when the spring activates and there's suddenly so much suction inside of it, and it becomes less about control, and more about pre-planning where the inevitable path of destruction will take place. In other words, yes I have bent pins with this. But even that one flaw isn't that big of a deal. It's vastly out-weighed by the pure joy I feel when I desolder each pin, one suck at a time, only for the chip to hit the desk when the last pin is desoldered. Each pin, desoldered so perfectly on the first try, it falls right out of the board on the last pin. It's exactly what I have always aimed for when desoldering, but never achieved until I got this sucker. I'm giving serious consideration to buying a second one, in case the first ever breaks. Overall, I would say this solder sucker is a FANTASTIC deal, and by far the best solder sucker I've ever used. I would highly recommend this solder sucker to anybody, including YOU, regardless if this is your first solder sucker, or your last because you're about to give up on them forever and buy a Hakko desoldering gun. Try it and, like me, you'll find yourself also saying, "Can you believe they're charging $300 for a Hakko desoldering gun when this beast is only $6???" They should name this solder sucker, "The John Henry" because it's the only non-electric solder sucker that can compete with the finely tuned desoldering monster that is the Hakko desoldering gun.

Have soldering experience and have used a product like this that is similar. Used this to remove some solder on a electronic toothbrush with very small components and it worked very well! It pulled the solder right out of the through hole of the circuit board. At this point I would recommend this product, decent price, great suction. Have to be gentle with it for it is plastic! Time will tell on the quality of this product.

As others have said, it is large, but it does its job well. I used it to replace a battery on a Sonicare toothbrush. It was my first time using one, and so took a moment to get used to, but it did great and was easy to clean. You can't beat the price.

These are a knock-off of the Soldapullt pumps but use a slightly different tip. I've used the Soldapullt's for decades and they are very good in all respects. I bought two of the knock-offs; price being the main consideration and the hope that they are as good as the Soldapullts being the second consideration. They are as well-made, very sturdy, lots of suction. Internals are the same. These are a winner as far as I'm concerned.

It had been years and years since I'd done any soldering when a friend brought her decade-old plus Bose sound system over. The RC was not communicating with the receiver device for the speakers, the light would not turn green, or red or work at all. After poking around on YTube apparently, an LED inside the little box had blown out. The whole circuit board was less than the size of a nightclub matchbook and my hands aren't as steady as they once were. I ordered the diode and this Desoldering Vacuum Pump, frankly because I couldn't find one of those old bulbous baby nose-snot-removers to do the desoldering vacuum like we used years ago. Without mincing words, it's hard to describe how effective this desoldering pump is. I always worry about too much heat around components but this works so quickly and so well I couldn't believe it. As soon as you see that stuff begin to liquify, hit that button and BAM, solders gone! It's way better than the old baby nose-sniffers. I definitely recommend this for newbies in electronics and old hands alike.

Way too big, nearly a foot long. Clunky and awkward to use but, it sucks solder. I've had smaller solder suckers work just as well and were much easier to work with.

Same exact product I used 40 years ago. Very affordable. Works much better than smaller, metal suckers that look fancy and cost more. Won't break if you drop it.

I know it's a copy but whatever. I've been removing solder from old parts of so many kinds for, well, for fifty years now, but really three-plus decades "for money" as they say. I was happily paying almost twenty dollars for the Ungar version of this, but those vanished and I discovered I had a workstation that was missing a "solder sucker". Most of the small diameter ones you see are awful - it's too much of a stretch to get the thumb strongly on the button, and the extended barrel prevent pushing them against the front of a bench to "reload". Making them a stupid. two-handed tool. When you have a soldering iron in the other hand. This tool is sweet. I bought it to try, and the action is very gentle (doesn't jump out of place during operation), releases/reloads easily by pushing it against the bench (or palm of soldering iron hand) For this price I am trying to decide how many to get so I never have to worry about buying such a tool again.