Desoldering stations are expensive, but if you want to get solder off of your electronics it's the best way to do it. If you don't mind doing a bit of the legwork yourself, DIYer Sable Wolf shows off ...

[Lee] has a Hakko FR301 desoldering gun and a Duratool knockoff. He freely admits that the Hakko is probably better, but he wonders if it’s good enough to justify being four times as expensive. He ...

The project is made up of heater, powerful solder, hot exchanger, and air pump to produce homemade SMT desoldering station. Some parts of the device can be substituted by other components such as pump ...

[Sable Wolf] tipped us off to his DYI desoldering station for under $70. We know we have seen this conversion before, but it hasn’t been featured on Hack a Day. [Sable Wolf’s] hack is unique and has ...