<div dir="ltr">thanks for the info, all.<div><br></div><div>i have a Weller WTCPT iron, which has been a trusty servant. can i make this iron more suitable for SMT stuff, or are other irons (i see Metcal is popular) just more appropriate?</div><div><br></div><div>any tips for steadying oldish hands while doing delicate work? i did wonder whether our EMS had a setup where nothing was hand-held. do such arrangements exist?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks much!</div><div>Jason</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:57 PM, charlie wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlie@finitemonkeys.com" target="_blank">charlie@finitemonkeys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Trinocular boom from amscope with usb camera or a mantis from eBay<br>
Metcal from eBay<br>
Solder sucker <br>
Wiha esd tweezer set<br>
Chip quik</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 19, 2016 4:54 PM, "MTG" <<a href="mailto:grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com" target="_blank">grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1 on the scope, -1 on the USB camera. And I have exactly the same situation regarding taking *my* scope to work and back. They actually have one at work but it has no light. I use 10x most of the time on the microscope and rarely x30. My scope was not much over $100 USD and I've no complaints.<br>
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On 5/19/2016 4:35 PM, Gordonjcp wrote:<br>
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Binocular microscope is great, cheapy USB camera<br>
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> microscope is perfectly okay (we use them at work<br>
> when I take *my* binocular microscope home), decent<br>
> non-magnetic tweezers and a good soldering iron with<br>
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not too small a point.<br>
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