How do you clean the spring filter on the Yihua 948? I got one recently too and have desoldered 98 holes so far from a -35 board and that thing got caked. I'd figure you could just stretch it out and the lump would fall out. I wonder how essential that filter is.
Package came with a couple of them so not too worried that I ruined the first one.
I also wonder what the flappy black plastic thing is. I thought the vacuum was pretty quiet, I was really surprised about that.
My Hakko 808 was VERY noisy by comparison, and has given up the ghost anyway (probably needs a new pump). I've been using the cheapie solder pullet-s from Amazon 3 for $7 they work pretty well for what they are, but not for doing 40 pin ic sockets.
