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Carl_Smith:

--- Quote from: mnementh on June 29, 2018, 09:29:06 pm ---


Just remember that these little guys are for where you need a soft touch... a few ounces of pressure is all they produce. Not like the $4 plastic Bucket o' Clamps from Horror Fraught that clamp tight enough to break themselves.

These clips are also a good emergency source of 100mm-150mm pieces of spring steel wire when you need to fabri-cobble something together real quick.

mnem
*Clip-ily*

--- End quote ---

Ha.  I have one of those "tube of clamps" but I think mine came from Menard's, our local Midwest US home improvement store.  I think there's only two left in the tube.  It's like these things have a radioactive half-life.  Every time I needed to use some, I found that some had exploded in the tube. They can't take the pressure of their own springs and eventually pop themselves apart.  I started putting together good clamps from the good halves of the exploded ones, but most of those have self destructed as well.  Guess I shouldn't complain though, I probably got them free with one of Menard's rebates.

 

mnementh:
Yeah...

these used to be one of Harbor Frigg-it's loss leaders; back in the day they were actually 'glas-filled nylon, and you got a plastic bucket of them the size of a coffee can (and a few of the bigger 4-5" clamps in there) for $7.99 or $4.99 every few weeks when they had a parking lot sale. Last few years they've been these horrid little things... I just put the metal bits in the bolt bin when they explode and throw the rest away.


mnem
*Toddling off to ded*

Specmaster:
@bd139
I assume that you purchased this via Amazon? if so will you be leaving a feedback and mini review for them as so far no one else has bothered to do so  :wtf:

I think the clue as to why they are so good is in the description "Metcal PS-900 Production Soldering System" it is designed for use in an industrial setting rather then the home in the hands of the average hobbyist, but then you do more than your share of production prototypes in pursuit of your goal.

Looked at the price and I can get quite a few T12's for that much, or as I did recently, a really cracking 200MHz combiscope that performs and looks like it has just been taken out of its box for the first time. That should last you a lifetime I reckon, so I guess that you'll eventually get a round to building the T12 up from its kit and keeping that as  back up should the unthinkable happen with the Metal?  :-+

bd139:
Was cheaper on RS than Amazon. My Weller iron retails at more than the Metcal does at the moment.  :scared:

Honestly the Weller paid for itself over and over again with repair returns etc. Metcal does that plus the forward engineering stuff better.

If it blows up, RS will sort it. They replaced a 3 year old BNC cable the other week after a "well I could always start shopping at Farnell" speech :-DD

bd139:
eBay scammer is back this morning.

Going to add some rules to my scripts to skip hacked sellers. The same images appear so will take SHA256 of some sample item images and then add any sellers who that appears on to my seller shitlist. Not going to bother reporting. Joy to pipelining as I can just add another step here.

Hopefully their image encoder is deterministic and idempotent.

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