It's obvious you've never had a manicure, Adrian. An orangewood stick is an instrument for torturing the cuticles.
Il faut soufrir pour etre belle! On Sunday, November 6, 2016, Adrian Godwin <artgod...@gmail.com> wrote: > You might also want normal cold tweezers to place the part. I'm not sure > what an orange stick is, around here I'd use a wooden toothpick. Perhaps > that's the same thing ! > > The Swiss Venus tweezers have a lovely finish and the ends always meet. > There are probably others as good. > > If you get some placing tweezers, make sure they're antimagnetic. Some > small parts (even resistors, that I wouldn't expect to contain steel) seem > to stick even to stainless steel. I've also heard bambooo tweezers are > good, but have never tried them. > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 6:17 PM, jimlux <jim...@earthlink.net > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > On 11/6/16 9:24 AM, Scott Stobbe wrote: > > > >> I would not recommend purchasing soldering tweezers without trying them > >> first. They are not easy to control solder application when mounting a > >> component. > >> > > > > tweezers to remove > > single iron to install > > use a orange stick to hold the part down while you solder each end. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com <javascript:;> > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m > > ailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com <javascript:;> > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- If you gaze long into an abyss, your coffee will get cold. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.