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magnifying glass and helping hands for soldering kid

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Hi, I'm teaching my 9 yo son how to solder for a homeschooling class. We
have the soldering iron station, a silicon mat, and some other things.
But he needs magnification and some kind of helping hands. I see quite a
few helping-hand + magnifying glass combos on Amazon for around 50 USD,
but they all look cheap and chinse and was wondering if I should
get him some kind of nicer set up. Any suggestions from the grizzled
veterans?

Personally I don't usually use helping hands because my cheap ones are
bulky and bothersome to work with. Usually I just do other tricks like
setting stuff on top of the PCB or whatever. For magnification, I use a
lightweight pair of magnifying glasses which works pretty well, though
I've heard other people use coin-type magnifying stations and that
sounds kind of nice.

We have money available through the program so that spending a few
hundred USD is not out of reach. We are very limited though on desk and
storage space, and all equipment has to be put away on a small shelf
after we are done with the lesson.

-- 
Christopher Howard

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magnifying glass and helping hands for soldering kid Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> - 2026-09-15 08:41 -0800
  Re: magnifying glass and helping hands for soldering kid Lane W <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-15 11:20 -0600
    Re: magnifying glass and helping hands for soldering kid Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> - 2026-09-16 10:01 -0800
      Re: magnifying glass and helping hands for soldering kid bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-09-19 14:51 +0000

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