Can be fashioned from three wooden tongue depressors, the smaller, thick ones work best. Can be found in craft stores in the wood aisle.
Cut the end of one to server as a spacer and glue together.
Hold the body of the device and pull towards yourself. Rotate and repeat.
Made and used these thirty plus years ago where we made military and very high end precision resistors. After burn-in and whatever else the parts needed, this is how they straightened the leads prior to shipment. Works well for tinned and gold plated leads without damaging the finish. It will also remove any oxide layer if they're old, pre-lead free leads.
Jiggy-Ninja:
My vote for the champion of the "unexpectedly useful soldering tip" category doesn't go to the crooked type J, but to the type K Knife tip.
I just have to say thanks, a thousand thanks, for making me aware of the existence of this fantastic soldering tip. I have been using the nearly-needle fine ones to get in among crowded pads and pins, but they deliver so little heat (tiny area) that it's slow work. This knife tip is the bee's knees! its knife edge and point are fine enough to sneak in there, but it has real mass and I get flow almost instantly. Plus as you note, it can bridge two pads... hey, it does everything!
This is now my go-to soldering tool. The super fine tip I still keep around on a spare iron, but I'm an enthusiastic convert to the type K for just about every task. Haven't found anything yet that it can't do. I do note that it's worth the steep-ish price to get the genuine Hakko item though, as the "Hakko compatible" ones from Banggood and similar outlets are crudely made, blunt, and clumsy by comparison to the real deal.
64x128 char LCD fit almost perfectly into the opening in fuse boxes, resulting in a very clean case for larger projects. This one is for this project.
The PCB can be attached to the DIN rail.
To people who uses CURA (> v3) for 3D printing and uses the same machine for programming Nano, I found out if you have Cura open and hook up your Nano, the Nano keeps restarting frequently (eventually it stops, but really annoying). Solution is to turn off Cura. Im using a Mac so dont know if this happens on Windows PC.
thought I'd share this little quark. Have a great day!
Wire capacitors in parallel to get a higher uf. That might not be ground breaking to pros, but to a new maker, this is mind-blowing. It allows you to use multiple ceramic capacitors for making a slightly larger ceramic capacitor, good if you don't want to buy new parts but want to use up lots of old capacitors.
In that video, the method for finding the position of holes was using a piece of paper to trace them. I've used a flatbed scanner to do the same job. Just scan the board with the cover open (mind your eyes) and print in monochrome at 100% (without scaling). The holes show as black spots on a lighter background. Cut the print to shape and tape in position for drilling.
Not really a tip but, this seems like a good place for it. I needed a template for a 1602 LCD display. This one worked best for me. I had to tweak the zoom to 151% to get it just right. Offers the option to have the display recessed or extending through the panel.
A snip image, since the forum won't show a linked .pdf