Got this to help with the obvious issue -- my soldering isn't superb and I sometimes get a bit too much on my work. There are times too when I'm de-soldering a component and there's need to clean up the earlier traces and blobs. This is a simple mechanical plunger that does this very well. You depress the plunger against an internal spring until it latches; position the nib to best effect near the liquid solder; then press the black button to release the plunger and remove the solder. Pfft! no blob. The solder is dispersed inside the tube, which means, yeah, it gets all over the spring and the back of the plunger. This also cools the solder rapidly and you never feel any heat through the tube wall. Dispersing the solder all over may sound like a design flaw but it's really not. It's easy to clean, and you don't need to do it but once in a long while. By my calculations, if a solder blob is a 2mm sphere, the solder sucker could hold up to 500 blobs easily.
Pros:
* Very lightweight and easy to handle
* Few moving parts and no electronics (read: simpler the better)
* Replaceable gasket
* Goes for hundreds of uses before emptying it is even at all a concern
Cons:
* None, really, though the gasket is a bit at risk of being nicked or cut when you reassemble the device after its (very) occasional cleaning. This isn't a big deal, but just something to be aware of and gentle with.
General thoughts:
Glad I got it, and given that I don't do a ton of soldering, I don't think I'll need to upgrade this anytime soon. It's perfect for my needs with circuit boards and small components.
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Desoldering Pump
It's a plain desoldering pump. Bigger than the one I used before (it's 8in long x 3/4in diameter). It's not real high quality, but it works well enough for occasional jobs; I just used it on an X box controller S. As another review said, the tip does get filled with solder, but I never had to open it to get it out; when I push the pin back down it clears the tip. Mine is navy blue with neon orange plastic (unlike the image on the product page) and made by Steren. The package specified that it's made of aluminum. Seems like it will last for a good long while.
