{"id":31392,"date":"2018-05-12T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=31392"},"modified":"2018-05-12T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T16:00:19","slug":"adjustable-circuit-board-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/adjustable-circuit-board-holder\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjustable Circuit Board Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_83304\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ThUrzByhkA?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s time for another Cool Tools review. We\u2019re going to take a look at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00Q2TTQEE\/ctmakerupdate-20\/\">circuit board holder from Aven<\/a>. I got this for just $12 on Amazon, and you can get this exact same one using the link in the description, which helps support my videos and the Cool Tools blog.<\/p>\n<p>Helping hands tools are really a matter of personal taste. None of them are perfect, and this one\u2019s no different, but for the price it really nails a couple cool tricks.<\/p>\n<p>The first is that once you secure an unpopulated circuit board in here, wedging it in the grooved, spring loaded grippers, you can quickly flip in back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>This is great when you need to drop in a component from the front, bend the leads, flip it over to solder it up, and flip it back for the next component. With this, it\u2019s easy.<\/p>\n<p>There are thumb screws to tension everything up the way you want. It sure beats working off a table, and it\u2019s more rigid than a flexible arm clip.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing this is great for is de-soldering components. If you screwed up and need to take something out, you can heat on one side and pull or pry from the other.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you\u2019re using a solder sucker, you can really rest your hand on this thing and get right up to the spot without having to chase it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all there is to it. It\u2019s a simple and inexpensive tool, but relatively well built and I\u2019m surprised I don\u2019t see them more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secures circuit board for soldering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19,2337],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31394,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31392\/revisions\/31394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}