Illuminated Helping Hands

Hi there.
I'm using helping hands regulary. Most of the time I work at night and i hate when a I can't see what am I soldering. So I've decided to make an easy led light that can be added to regular helping hands.

Step 1 Parts & Tools

Parts you'll need :
- Helping hands
- Switch
- LED
- 3V button cell battery (CR2032)
- 3V battery holder
- Heat shrink tubink
- Couple of wires

Tools you'll need :
- Soldering iron + solder
- Lighter (for heat shrink tubing)

Comments

[pfred2]

I have an arm lamp right over my helping hands I use to illuminate that workspace. Plus the magnifying glass that came with mine wasn't the greatest so I've a magnifier on another arm I made over it as well. It can get a bit crowded working in that spot!

I would love to post an image but this website seems a bit broken here now. I've tried two different browsers and it still does not seem to be functioning properly. They ought to fire their webmaster.

Oh well it looks like this:

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2038/003nfl.jpg

I can't even get "Rich Editor" to come up right now so sorry about the bare link there.

[zazenergy]

love how you've illuminated your helping hands! thanks for sharing.

[legwinskij]

thanks too :)

[rtty21]

very nice! thanks for sharing!

[legwinskij]

thanks :)