I have had one of these (actually two - one at work, one at home) for 20 years; best investment I've made in the way of shop equipment:
http://store.dazor.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=12 They're the bee's knees for close work! 73s, john W3JKS --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Stelios Bounanos <digra...@...> wrote: > > >>>>> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:25:10 -0500, Rick W <mrf...@...> said: > > > As was mentioned, construction may be impractical for many hams. In my > > case, I have been soldering since around age 13 or so with my first > > crystal radio kit and later many kits and dozens of projects over the > > years, so it is not too difficult to make a simple interface. > > > Today, because of my age, it is increasingly difficult to do close work > > without special help. I normally wear trifocals and the close-in > > distance is for book reading at around a foot, but it is very much at > > the bottom of the glasses and difficult to use so I sometimes use > > magnifying googles. > > There must be a lot of cheap second hand camcorders out there, many with > both analogue and digital video outputs and plenty of optical zoom. I > imagine you could easily display a good 10-20x image of the work on your > monitor (perhaps with the aid of an external lens). > > That's a lot of magnification and as a bonus you can sit straight and > not spend hours hunched over your desk looking at the work with > magnifying goggles on. You also inhale less flux fumes and avoid > solder splashes. > > > -- > > 73, > Stelios, M0GLD. >
