I've spent the last couple of hours reading various threads and doing searches. The results are clear as mud. I'm space constrained, so total footprint matters.
I want:
regular iron
hot air
vacuum pickup
power vacuum desolder
tweezer tip ? (not so sure about this as vacuum pickup and hot air might work better)
The Aoyue 2703A seems to fill the bill for a reasonable price as does the Aoyue 968A with a separate desoldering gun. I've not found anything else to match the 2703A, though I'm not considering Hakko, so they might have one, but at too stiff a price for my needs.
Are there others I should look at? $300-400 is about as high as I want to go for all the above.
Do the reciprocating pump desoldering guns work satisfactorily, I've got machine tools so I can build a desoldering tool with serious suction into a large chamber.