Ive got one of these myself. Its been very useful and reliable.
Its had a fair amount of use at home on my office workbench.
The magnification is pretty good and the light is at just the right intensity.
Its on special offer at the moment at £24.99.
Would be great to have one in the space if we had the budget available. Maplin magnifying light.
Its about time we put a table aside for the soldering and assembly workbench then.
The little table by the window with the soldering iron on has been used fairly frequently but will be a bit small to take everything else.
I agree, lets get one of those desks we hacked into action, it has one of those monitor arms in the corner, maybe the mag light will poke into that rather than needing the edge clamp?
We can sit down and look at other stuff getting ordered too.
We’ve budgeted a fair sum of GLA funds for electronics equipment, so we will be ordering all sorts. @unknowndomain can you share the shopping list?
The desks have threaded holes in the corner plates, so will be easy to mount a back board. Bear in mind the wall itself will be ply so we could just attach things to that.
They have the odd bits and pieces that come up at reasonable prices like that lamp.
And there tools are generally of a reasonable quality.
But your right i generally only use them when i need something in a hurry.
But there stock isnt as comprehensive as it was and the staff dont have the knowledge anymore.
I think there was another post you started asking for recomendations on what was to go on the bench.
I dont know if it ended up on discourse or google groups.
Maybe we should start a new wikified post and a list of contenrs of both what we have and what we would like for the bench.
Busy evening again then.
Ill try and get down early to get some work done on the shutter.
And i have an upgrade of the rfid library to apply to the door.
Jim will need a bit more help with his steppers. I got him looking at how to use switches with arduino last week but he needs someone to give him a bit of time.
Im providing some stuff for pcb drilling.
And the usual questions/suggestions for getting people going.
I wonder how many will be along tonight.
Already packed the watch strap. He can have it if he wants as i just printed it as a test.
I printed both ninjaflex and semiflex without modification.
You should be fine with semiflex with your printer.
Ill bring the rest of that red sampler for you to try out.
I have a modified wades body but havnt got round to fitting it yet. Ill bring it along for you to see it.