If you have trouble when soldering, attaching wires, whatever, this might be the perfect solution.
I'll be building one of these myself in a few weeks so I'll be able to actually give a good review, but it looks pretty solid and trustworthy.
Third Hand (Instructables)
I have a regular helping
I have a regular helping hands, but those are much better, as they are completely flexiable.
Yes - same here. They look
Yes - same here. They look much nicer. Only problem is that you have to build those 
Looks nice. My helping hands
Looks nice. My helping hands have often frustrated me for their lack of useful range – for example, there’s no way to just position the two alligator clips close to each other and parallel, which seems to be one of the most common things I’d like todo, such as for soldering a wire onto a header pin or whatever. I might give this project a try.
Dan
On my regular helping hands,
On my regular helping hands, I slid my roll of silver solder (I have 2 pounds of it for free) onto the bar that holds the connector things, so I have solder right there. Super easy and handy!
Gooseneck
I use a gooseneck from DJ microphone. This would be great fro Frits, 'cos there’s nothing to “make.”
I just wonder what happend
I just wonder what happend to the part in the upper right of the picture?
My guess, he just
My guess, he just disconnected it because he didn’t need it at the moment.
The pieces come apart pretty readily it seems.
this one has a magnetic
this one has a magnetic base, how “BAD” is a powerful magnetic base to the PICs?
HOORAY
i just got my snap flow parts, now im off to buy metal pipes to mimic this design…
seemed like the simplest/best one
Wow, that is plain art,
Wow, that is plain art, dude!
And heres’s what I’ve done!
And heres’s what I’ve done! I’ve added blue rubber foam wrap to prevent it from scratching my work surface. And it adds less slip.
Oh! its the same color as my avatar!
You inspired me, Vince, I
You inspired me, Vince, I finally placed my order for the SnapFlow parts. I like that pipe-based base. Where did you buy the pipe? Just the local hardware store? That’s 1/8 NPT pipe, right? Is that LED actually bright enough to add useful illumination?
Dan
Yes the led is very bright!
Yes the led is very bright! it leaves black spots on my eyes, you might consider putting more links to the led arm or… less links to the aligator arms just so you can get some distance between them. the pipe i got was the next size up from 1/4. but i wished i got the 1/4 because your dont need the additional 4 coupling pieces. Ive also put in a 3 click switch to turn either LED only or LED+fan. (because fan will eat the battery) These arms are amazingly useful!
Creative but not cheap
Looks like you work around CNC stuff with coolant lines.
