Ultimate Soldering Vise – Helping Hand, holder

My take on Ultimate soldering vise.

This was designed for maximum functionality. Please note, all tolerances are very precise and are on the tighter side allowing for discrepancies between printers

Additional material:

8 x 3/8-16 hex nuts, 2 small rubber bands (Rainbow Loom), coke can (for aluminum plate)

This project require a tiny bit of assembly, but the result is a pretty “PRO” small double sliding vise for soldering, gluing or other things.

There are two sliding jaws.

Each sliding jaw has space for two 3/8-16 hex nuts to be pushed in as a weight. It is designed for friction fit – the best is to heat the nuts before pushing them in which can be done with soldering iron or heat gun.

A side jaw expansions are printed separately as it allows you to use different material (for example flexible filament) or you may also decide to cut the shape from a rubber etc.

You would glue the jaw expansions in.

After printing the jaws dovetail should be a tight fit and you need to use light sandpaper to fit it perfectly so the slides close freely by their own weight.

Bottom base uses 4 x 3/8 nuts as feet and added weight. This is designed to be fitted by heating the nuts little and pressing them about half-way in.

The sides have holes for various sized LEDs (3,5,8mm) but after printing they will be on the very tight side and need to be worked with a sandpaper or file to have the led fit and stay well.

An rectangle form coke can needs to be cut to push it it in the middle depression on the base to catch any solder.

Two raibow loom rubber bands are used to provide force on the jaws. (rainbow loom is great source of a very useful and reliable rubber bands for jiggs in every color! – so dig in your kids toys to find those or look around wqal-mart or thrift store.

The base and jaws could be 30-40% infill, the sidejaws can be 100% infill.

All objects are oriented the way they need to be printed.

There is no need for support – everything was designed with the 3d printing direction in mind.

I hope you will find it useful. Check my software projects at http://www.mediachance.com and support me that way.