[Shop-talk] "helping hand" for soldering - recommendation?

[J.C. Hassall]

Lee, the first one does a good job for me. The included light on the second one is a nice feature but the iron holder wouldn’t work for me, the iron would probably interfere with the work piece. FWIW, I do a lot of work with small electronics and wires. 
jim

Fat-thumbed from my iPhone7

> On May 11, 2018, at 11:10 AM, Lee Daniels <lee at automate-it.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm very good at making a mess of an easy soldering job. And I've often flung
> molten solder as the wire I was holding slipped out of the pliers I held
> between my pinkies while using my other two hands to hold the iron and solder.
> A bench vise and vise-grips come in handy too --- but I really need to spend
> the $20 on a tool designed for the job.
> 
> I'm amazed at some of the low prices on these. Any recommendations?
> This one looks functional for only $7.85 - http://a.co/cG779c2
> I like the included light with this one: http://a.co/85Quo6B - $14.99
> Really cool, but probably overkill for me: http://a.co/b8oLqhk - $37.96
> 
> Thoughts?
> thanks!
> Lee
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