I've heard this one is the the best manual solder sucker. Made in Japan, I have one and it works great. Bit spendy though...Can anyone recommend a decent solder sucker for stripping soldered components & wires on switches, circuit boards, etc.
I had 2 cheap ones that came with soldering kits, 1 has fell apart & the other keeps clogging up.
I use one of these as well as several RS ones - They are all great tbf (this one is nice and compact too)I've heard this one is the the best manual solder sucker. Made in Japan, I have one and it works great. Bit spendy though...
I've heard this one is the the best manual solder sucker. Made in Japan, I have one and it works great. Bit spendy though...
Solder suckers tend to get the high temp plastic tips slightly soft so they pick up crud that acts as a heat sink causing more melting later on .
Decent solder suckers have a spring loaded plunger with a nozzle clearing spike on the end that protrudes through the nozzle when the plunger is fully depressed .. You use to be able to get spare nozzles from RS .
On reading that I ran outside to make a new nozzle out of Tufnol, then rummaging through my stock I found a length of PTFE, which is probably what the original was made of...One enterprising 24 volt electrician I used to know got his mate in the machinery wagon to turn up several Paxolin sleeves to put on the end of the sucker ....he seemed happy at the result .
I've just noticed there's someone else's initials carved into it, so maybe he didn't buy it.