On 11/6/16 10:47 AM, Adrian Godwin wrote:
You might also want normal cold tweezers to place the part. I'm not sure
what an orange stick is, around here I'd use a wooden toothpick. Perhaps
that's the same thing !
An orange stick is a piece of wood about 1/4" in diameter which has been
tapered and then trimmed to a chisel point. I don't know if they were
originally colored orange, or they're made from the wood of orange trees
or what.
A quick google says they're also used for nail art and cuticle pushing,
and are made from orangewood. I note that orangewood doesn't
necessarily mean "wood from orange trees", which I can't imagine being a
good lumber to process (small diameter, not straight, etc.).
I would guess that they're made from fir or birch or something which
comes in logs and has straight grain - essentially a giant toothpick.
Any way, they are non-magnetic, non conductive (but not an insulator, so
they're ESD safe), a thermal insulator (so the heat on your part isn't
sucked into the tool).
They're also great for pushing a SMD part off the pads gently when the
solder has been liquified.
And for holding copper foil snowflakes when tuning a microwave circuit
The Swiss Venus tweezers have a lovely finish and the ends always meet.
There are probably others as good.
If you get some placing tweezers, make sure they're antimagnetic. Some
small parts (even resistors, that I wouldn't expect to contain steel) seem
to stick even to stainless steel. I've also heard bambooo tweezers are
good, but have never tried them.
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 6:17 PM, jimlux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 11/6/16 9:24 AM, Scott Stobbe wrote:
I would not recommend purchasing soldering tweezers without trying them
first. They are not easy to control solder application when mounting a
component.
tweezers to remove
single iron to install
use a orange stick to hold the part down while you solder each end.
_______________________________________________
time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com
To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m
ailman/listinfo/time-nuts
and follow the instructions there.
_______________________________________________
time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com
To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
and follow the instructions there.
_______________________________________________
time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com
To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
and follow the instructions there.
