DESOLDERING STATION, UK/EU PLUG, 80W D00672 By DURATOOL & engineer SS-02solder sucker pump with innovative 'enveloping' silicone nozzle. Made in Japan,Grey

I've just received the replacement for this (which I paid full price for) and that works and is great.This, however, was terrible.Having paid £10 less from the Amazon Warehouse, I was expecting it to be used, maybe a scratch or something.What arrived looked like someone had tipped most of the parts into a box, from height, and didn't worry if anything didn't make it in. No spare heads, no cleaning rods, instructions look like they'd been in a tug of war with a dog, only the euro power cable, and, the adapter the suction tube fits onto looked like someone had broken it then glued something (steel tube, toothpaste nozzle?) onto it in an attempt to fix.Oh, and the unit didn't suck either. Well it sucked in the way that things "suck" if they're bad, but I wanted this to suck for the right reasons. It made the correct noises and the solder head heated up fine. It just didn't remove the solder which is it's sole purpose.With the new one, I can now see what I should have got, and shame on Amazon for trying to sneak this abomination out. It should have been binned or buried with those copies of ET - The Game in the desert.

Don't be put off by budget pricing, this really does a good job. For over 30 years I desoldered using traditional iron and desoldering tube. Not any more. I have previously been struggling with swapping capacitors on multilayer PC motherboards. This unit makes it a breeze. I set temp to 320C. Place iron bit over the solder joint and heat joint till capacitor start to feel movable then trigger the suction gun and solder is gone, allowing faulty cap to be removed, leaving the pcb holes free of solder. Better still is I found the gun is also brilliant for soldering new caps in, always tricky on tiny modern motherboard traces. Push capacitor through pcb holes. Trim long leads to length. Place hot bit over cropped leads and feed solder in. Makes a super-neat job. Clean area with isopropyl alcohol and you can't even see the repair. Get one of these stations and you'll not regret it.

I have been really, really impressed with this desoldering station. It heats up quickly, it has great suction and is easy to take apart and clean. Out of the box, I was up and running in less than a couple of minutes and removing components like a champion. Is this essential? No, not really. You can obviously remove components by adding fresh solder and using a soldering iron. You can also use desoldering braid. However, the desoldering station is so ridiculously easy to use and very effective, that it gets the job done much, much quicker. My use case was for recapping old Amigas & general PCB repair, so on a day-to-day basis I'm not removing components all that often. However, the time saved and the neatness of the removal is worth its weight in gold. I would recommend this to any electronics tinkerer. You won't be disappointed.

Took a bit to get used to, but I found my temp and I'm flying. Upped my game so much.Comes with plenty of pokey cleaney rods too.I have friends who have ditched this in favour of a the hakko unit, but as a first unit, being able to replace the hand piece, and have a sturdy unit+stand is just fantastic, and the price is right.Great suction on the thing. I have some really old wafer-thin PCBs that were being destroyed by my solder iron and were far too small to wick up with solder braid. This thing cleared out an hour's work in maybe 5 minutes. Even the solder blobbed away in tiny flush holes is reachable.

Was a bit dubious about buying this model but have seen plenty of good reviews on YouTube so thought I would take a plunge been after one for ages and i needed to resolder some large ICs . I'm so glad I brought it, price was extremely competitive was delivered extremely quickly and very well packaged. The actual item is the latest model with all the latest improvements, better desolder spring, thicker more solid reservoir for the solder. It's a lot better quality than the price makes you think it would be. Suction is very strong managed to completely remove all the solder from a 40 pin ic i had to remove and the chip just fell out! Good bye old desolder pump. Very impressed with device and very happy with the vendor, item is based in UK so arrived very quickly

I do quite a bit of work on vintage computers and games consoles, and this thing is an absolute life saver. I've had absolutely no issues with clogging so far, just keeping it clean as I go.For complete safety if you're working on older stuff, I find sometimes little bits of solder can hold chip legs for example far stronger than it might look, and after using this it's worth giving it a quick blow over with a heat station just to make sure no damage is done on removal.

Used for desoldering Op-Amps and capacitors from an Audio pre and power amp.Once I'd found the right temperature it worked fine. After some blockages I took the precaution of clearing the solder channel with the tool supplied before switching off.Adding a spot of new solder at the tip as you try and melt the intended target makes the process much quicker and avoids overheating.It is tricky to clear blockages as it can only be done with the gun hot so half of it you can't touch. Be careful!