What is this solder tool?

[pclaptop]

I recently bought a soldering work station and there was a soldering tool included I have never seen before and have no idea what it's purpose is!

if you go to the ebay link you will see it in the description picture. It has a 4" black plastic handle with a piece of U-shaped stiff wire attached by a screw on one end. It looks like a fork missing the two center tines or a tuning fork!

Can anyone solve this conundrum?

thanks in advance

**broken link removed**

 

[rho-bot]

Antenna for cosmic energy :laugh:

Serious: This is a cheap prying tool for IC/components extraction

 

[pclaptop]

thanks rho-bot, and here i thought it was for skewering those little critters inside female bikinis!