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unless you are plaining on working a lot on electronics and stuff, disoldering braid is your friend.

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i have a hakko (even more than $400) and it is sweeeeeet. i wish i had bought one when i first started working on electronics.

but a solder sucker worked fine for me for a couple years. like several guys said, until you do alot of it, or until you start removing processors (40 pin and DON'T f*** one up) there's no need to drop the cash.
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What is this Hakko? Sounds interesting, got any pictures? Not that I'd be able to afford one but it better be a DAYAM good desoldering tool for 400 bones.

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I just picked up a XYTRONIC 968 tonight. I can still do an ECU faster using the sucker and braid but with more practice it will be nice.

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I bought a decent sucker for 20 bucks, works great all the time. Just practice, and everything will get neater

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A friend of my dad's had what equated to a soldering iron with a hollow tip attached to a vaccum pump. I used it once and it was quite nice; desoldering a 28pin EPROM would take maybe a minute from start to having it out.

I wish i could find me a cheap one of those

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This is what I use. Works good but tip is too large for ECU work. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...342654862&rd=1