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| Youkai:
I was working on a project today where I was trying to solder some wires to one of these: https://www.jameco.com/z/H21A3-Major-Brands-Photointerrupter-Transmissive-3-3mm-Phototransistor-4-Pin-Rail_320901.html and also trying to solder male pins to the end of wires to make them easier to configure on a breadboard. In both cases it was a nightmare getting my helping hands to position two straight thin objects so they were touching. I have a cheap helping hands where the hands are thick wires. Positioning them with any sort of accuracy is pretty much a lottery. Does anybody know of a good helping hands that can position accurately? I found this link from a previous thread in the forum: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GIKVP5K/ but it looks like it's just wire ones too and probably suffers from the same problems. Is there a better version of the helping hands or is this just an unfortunate issue we have to suffer though? |
| Sredni:
I once saw Julian Ilett using a blue putty to keep the parts to be soldered in place. <pause> Ok, I've found a video from somebody else, it's called 'blue tack'. Quick Tip - Blutack! (For Electronics Soldering): I thought that was a brilliant idea, since I too have develop an uncontrollable hate for those pliers. They seem to have a mind of their own, worse than Dr. Octopus's arms. The putty is plastic, not elastic and will remain... put as you cast it. Oh, and you can try make it yourself: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Sticky-Tack |
| WallyGator:
--- Quote from: Sredni on November 26, 2018, 05:38:03 am ---I thought that was a brilliant idea, --- End quote --- How does it react to high temperatures - does it leave sticky residue on the board or try to melt? |
| Ian.M:
Bluetack will leave a horrible mess if it gets hot. The traditional style of helping hands with the croc clips on ball-joints on clamps sliding on a bar with thumb-screws to tighten the various joints can actually be set up and aligned a lot more easily, because it doesn't spring back. |
| beanflying:
There is ones similar to my custom one around. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/6-Arm-Third-Hand-Holder-Tool-Helping-Soldering-Iron-Electronics-Station-RC602/263065281175?epid=16016028231&hash=item3d3fe9a297:rk:4:pf:0 The legs are based on flexible air or fluid pipes. Mine has a couple of lights, fan with the microscope in the middle with 3 hands and a silicon mat under it all mounted to a chopping board. Bench is to full of crud to get it down :palm: Plenty of resistance to moving even with heavy cables in the jaws. :-+ |
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