Thanks for this. I'm still in the process of tooling up my workspace. This sort of input helps. There's a lot of sellers and a lot of cheap crap out there. A word of mouth promotion trumps a lot of sales pitch for me. I could easily break the bank trying to buy everything at once, so keeping cost down is a big deal. Looks like recapping power supplies is going to become a common activity on my bench! A robust extraction system is going to be very useful.
I've always loathed the plastic push-button type solder suckers. This looks like a nice setup. Clearly you're happy with it. I'll have to add it to the queue.
Dave
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On Friday, April 30, 2021, 10:09:15 AM PDT, Torch <tekscopes@...> wrote:
I bought a vacuum pump desoldering station a few years ago. Works great -- doesn't overheat traces, gets rid of the solder, leaves an empty hole and a clean carpet: