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.
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!
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?
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!