I love this micromanipulator. It simplify your assembly work so much that you have to try it.
Can you show a bit more about the use? I thought a micromanipulator was something to interact with samples under a microscope... clearly that is not the only application?
Using a micromanipulator under a microscope is one way to use it, but you can also do more stuff that involves manipulating (lifting, re-arranging stuff, pick and place stuff, spot cleaning) there are a lot more ways to use it instead of picking up components, actually you can:
1. rotate the components while placing and any properly sized object while placing it.
2. pick up tiny screws and object rather than components. Cellphones screws are ok, cellphone cameras are ok.
3. you can also use hot air + this to rearrange items if something goes wrong and the margin of error is certanly better than using a tweezer.
4. pick and place, assemble things (provided they are not too hevy, but a cellphone tiny motor is picked up easly if the vacuum is good and the cup is correct.
5. you can pick up adhesive tape with special cups. The tiniest cup is less than 1mm ( I'm planning to buy it)
6. it is handy. and for handy I mean, really handy compared to a tweezer: you don't screw around with tiny objects and thus the chance to lose them on the floor is decreased because It has continous vacuum, and you won't lose your object once it is picked up. Definitely not true with pick-up pens.
7. you can also suck up stuff such as pools of flux, but I don't reccomand it. Sucking up solder is discuraged due to clogging issues.
If you are good enought you can also pick your nose with it!
