SOLDERING IRON STAND

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Keeping the electric soldering iron clean and tidy is a simple matter. However, together with a soldering iron, we always use consumables such as tin-lead solder, soldering flux, rosin, solder oil and the like. You can, of course, store all this in a box, or a special purchase bag for a soldering iron. But you can make a special stand. It will serve not only as a place to store all the necessary supplies, but also as a kind of workplace, since we will also adapt here the so-called “third hand” for the convenience of the work performed.

Will need

1 - Plywood 10 × 250 × 100 mm. (thickness, length, width)
2 - fiberboard of the same parameters.
3 - A piece of a metal tube 100 mm, with an inner diameter slightly larger than the thickness of the soldering iron.
4 - Wood screws, 10mm.
5 - Old metal corrugation with a diameter of 15 mm. (from the shower)
6 - Aluminum wire, 4-5 mm thick.
7 - Metal clothespin-crocodile, 1 pc.

Tool

1 - The hammer.
2 - Drill.
3 - Sander.
4 - Screwdriver.
5 - Pliers.

Making a stand

As a basis, take puff plywood with a fiberboard placed on top of it.

This is in case, so that it is always possible to change the working surface of the stand, which has become greasy and contaminated over time, and thus always have a clean workplace. You can sew the fiberboard with a stapler, but, in my opinion, those screws that we will soon need are quite enough. Now we will make a holder for a soldering iron. To do this, take the prepared tube, flattening one end with a hammer, bend it at the angle you need and drill a hole for the screw in it.

Screw the holder to the base of the stand, on top of the fiberboard sheet. Next, we make the "third hand." We cut off with a grinder, a fragment of a metal corrugation necessary length.

If there is a rubber hose inside, we leave it. At each such corrugation, both ends are disassembled, so we remove them from unnecessary segments and rearrange them to our fragment.

The basis of the "third hand" will be an aluminum 5 mm wire. In order for it to become softer, more flexible and supple, it must be heated on fire, not leading to redness, and allowed to cool on its own.

Now at one end of the wire we use a pair of pliers to make a small loop and bend it sideways, later the screw thread will go through this loop, and thread the wire into the corrugation section.

We squeeze the entire corrugation down to the loop, attach a crocodile clip to the second end of the wire and release the corrugation so that it creeps along the entire length of the wire.

We put a screw into the loop and fasten the "third hand" to the stand. And, further, we attach to the stand all the consumables that you use in the process of working with a soldering iron. We turn the tin-lead solder with a spiral and screw its center to the stand, at any place convenient for you. Now remove the lid from the rosin package and, also, screw it to the stand, edges up. We put the rosin package on the lid - the rosin cannot fall out, since it was poured into the package in liquid form and froze there. Now the holder for the flux. Take any plastic or metal jar, shape, frame, where a bottle with a flux will fit and fasten it to the stand.

We insert the bottle with flux into the place prepared for it. If the bottle dangles inside this holder - wrap the bottle with electrical tape to the required thickness. In general, in this way, you can fasten everything that you usually use when soldering to the stand.