Ultimate Helping Hands/Station

Well we just finished our project for the ultimate helping hands, just exactly what is the Ultimate Helping Hand Station? well it's a soldering station that pretty much does everything. Hold your iron, cleans it, tins it, holds ur project, illuminates your working area, etc etc etc. Take a look at our video to see what were talking about I hope you enjoy this and leave us some feedback.

HM-Innovations

 

Step 1 Gathering The Parts

You're going to need the following supplies for your helping hands.

4 pieces of  6" 12 gauge copper wire segments
4  alligator clips, make sure they are not to strong or to weak, after all they will be your helpers.
1 piece  of metal sheeting (you pick your preferred size, ours came out of a project box lid we didn't use)
a  5mm 3.6v LED
a  210 ohm resistor
a  3/4 of an inch pience of plywood the same size as your metal sheet.
a  9v battery
a  9v battery connection
1  Switch
Tinner and Cleaner for your soldering tip
1" x 3/4" pience of PVC pipe.
1  Metal cleaner to scrape extra solder from your gun
1 Altoid Can
1  Lighter Cap
 
and

a LOT of aluminum Tape.

Comments

[oferamal]

Dear friends, thanks a lot for this amazing group of information, I work sometimes with electronic and I had some problems with the soldering process and you exposed the solution here. Congratulations. Thanks again.

[seraine]

Instead of making a holder from a altoids tin, take a 3/4" dowel or piece of pvc that's about 1' long. Drill a 1/8" hole about 1" from either end. Then get 2' of bare 12 gauge copper wire or heavy steel wire. Stick about 3" through the drilled hole, and bend it at a right angle. Wrap the wire around the dowel, so that it looks a bit like a spring. It makes a nice and cheap soldering iron holder, that's pretty easy to attach.

[dracorabbid]

I made one of these to make one of these

[agis68]

awsome......the perfect assistant tool

[SinAmos]

Your add is annoying. 1 star.

[Mr.Sanchez]

the Lighter part give it a fine touch...awesome...thx 4 share

[zgordon1]

you are a genious! i dont have one of those metal board things laying around the house so where would i get one and for how much? but if its on any regular household item, what would it be?

[LeumasYrrep]

You might be better off finding a sheet of aluminum and cutting it to size. You should be able to find a sheet at your hardware store or order online from onlinemetals.

Speaking of the aluminum sheet it would be a lot better if you placed screws in each corner of the sheet instead of one in the center. That way the sheet is held down more securely and will not rotate.

[HM-Innovations]

You can buy them at radioshack, we bought a Box Kit and this was the lid for the box.

[frank26080115]

Sweet, I need to make one now. I'll look into adding a fume extractor.

[tareko]

Greate DIY!

I hardly dare to suggest:

This is mainly for a soldering station. So, why not include a plug for the soldering iron and, drain from it the electricity for the led lamp? With the proper diode and resistor, it would save using the battery.
Also, instead of copper wire, I’d probably try steel cable from an old bike brake. It would be more flexible, and the tension from the four arms would make a stable hold, still allowing some downward flexibility, should you use too much pressure with the iron.

[kayla9]

Hi i think i will make this for my science project and i'd like to know about how much it would cost. So if anyone knows the answer please respond. thank you!

[HM-Innovations]

LED = .59c
Alluminum Tape = $8
Board (Free if you can find one around teh house)
Cables ($3)
Switch = 1.99
Tinner 2.99
Copper Tip Cleaner (the thing at the top right) .99c
Battery ... $1-$3
Alligator Clamps $2

Total our project was $4 dollars since we had everything laying around.

but you can get everything for under $20.00

[sephiroth67]

It seems like cutting the same thing but out of wood, then covering it in something that doesn't burn would be a better solution. I guess the best we could get is non-conductive, non-flammable, and easy to clean (maybe). If anyone wants to expand the idea, please do. Would love to see someone actually do it. Sorry for the thread jack xD.

[Krb686]

That looks amazing! Good work!

[tech123456789]

 it's spelled solder not sauder .
just thought you might want to know.

[fruitkid101]

Hang on. Here you go, http://www.instructables.com/id/Helping-Hands-Hack/ check it out!

[nadav]

 The lighter tip on the led is a great Idea.

[HM-Innovations]

yea it keeps you from getting blinded when soldering something together... lesson learned :P

[idontcar3]

 just finished mine.. but i added a mignifyer glass :D.. cool project :D.. it was fun

[pheer]

i heard 'aluminum tape' and thought this was going to end cheesy and crappy loopking, but it turned out great, especially for a home cheapy station that works well... awesome job! chances are i'll be making something similar soon!

[jgeorge06]

 Forgive my ignorance, but it's the first time I've done anything like this. How do you connect the LED to the switch?

[HM-Innovations]

You connect your + lead of ur Battery to one end of your switch, the other end of the switch will be connected to the + lead of your LED, then connect a Resistor to the - lead of ur battery, and then connect the resistor to the - lead of the battery.

[Patented]

Hey your project is so awesome! its like the luxury of soldering station! its look very nice with everything cover in aluminium tape, and what is coll is that you used household object so its very easy to do it at home. Everything from the clip to the light is very well done!

Thanks a lot!