Desoldering Braid #424 Fine Braid Super Wick with RMA Flux, 5' Length x 0.05" Width, Yellow

Was looking for decent fairly inexpensive braid and this worked great!

I needed to replace power jacks on both and netbook and laptop and this solder wick worked great. It is very thin, as stated in the description, but that was just fine on such small components. I put a small amount of solder on the wick which helped heat up and remove the existing solder. Removed the bad power jack, cleaned up the board and put on the new one. Resoldered and works fine.

Does it work? Yes. Does it work well? It depends on the user's skill set. If you're a beginner, youtube is your friend. Seriously. It's a simple concept: The solder you want to remove is absorbed by the braid when heat is applied on the braid (capillary action?) Easier said than done. Some factors to contend with is how old is the solder, is it lead or lead free? Again, youtube how this works beofre commiting.

I have been using Super Wick for many years for the so called "Micro Soldering" for the data recovery and repair for the iPhones and Macbooks. The wicks do not break easily like the cheap brands and the braids are really fine that I can use on very dedicated places like EEPROM chip area with hardly space to get in and the pads are seriously fragile. I haven't use any other wick since I started using the super wick.

good quality

(Revised Post) Found out what I was doing wrong (see below); I had a crappy $8 soldering iron. Once I purchased a legitimate soldering station (which wasn't that expensive after all), I had no trouble picking up excess solder with this wick. While it doesn't remove *all* of the old solder, it removes enough for you to remove components cleanly, and/or create a new solder joint. Kudos to those who got this product to do anything useful. This was my first experience using solder wick; I tried everything I could think of (altering the tip size of the soldering iron, increasing / decreasing the temp, flux / no flux), but I couldn't get this product to wick. About the only thing I could manage to do was to solder it to the board I was trying to wick solder away from. Is this stuff not intended for working with a soldering iron?

The wick was really thin. It got the job done but not as well as a thicker wick may have done.

IT WORKS!

Su tin y su malla superfina absorbe de maravilla

Convient très bien

When "sucking" is good. Wicks up the hot solder a treat. Recommended.

works as expected. good product

es de calidad normal pero con un precio alto.