{"product_id":"helping-hands-flexible-arms","title":"Helping Hands — flexible arms with clips","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo arms, two clips, one weighted base. It holds the board while you hold the iron, which is the whole problem it exists to solve. Anyone who has tried to solder a wire onto a pad with one hand, a board wobbling on the desk, and a hot iron in the other knows the moment this fixes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow it works\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arms are flexible steel loom, the kind that stays exactly where you bend it and does not creep. Each ends in a crocodile clip on a ball joint, so you set the angle and the grip separately. The base is weighted - that is the part cheap ones get wrong, because a light base turns the whole thing into a lever that tips the moment you push against a clip.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits on your bench\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNext to the drill press, not under it. You drill the board, then you solder it, and this is the tool for the second half of that sentence. It is also the cheapest way to stop burning your fingertips on work you have already spent an hour on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhere it stops\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClips are steel and they bite. On a bare PCB edge that is what you want. On a finished case, a watch dial or anything polished, put a strip of tape over the jaws first or you will mark it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlexible arms are a consumable in the sense that repeated hard bending eventually softens them. Years of normal use, not months - but they are not a lifetime tool, and we would rather say so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a two-arm stand. If you need four arms, a magnifier or a fume fan, that is a bigger tool and not this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eShipping\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFree, tracked, about a week to the United States and to Australia. It ships on its own and does not wait for anything else in your order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30-day returns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARVONELLE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47512617779391,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5826\/3743\/files\/S4ec8216836a041b5bf7e7d53df7d3fc6H.webp?v=1789870590","url":"https:\/\/arvonelle.com\/products\/helping-hands-flexible-arms","provider":"ARVONELLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}