Hello everyone.
If you ride an older bike, or fit electrical accessories such as a dash cam, you sometimes need to solder.
Today I'll show a tool that made soldering on my own much easier.
Here it is!
The Straight "soldering iron support stand with clips and magnifier" (Straight is a Japanese tool brand).
It has two clips that each hold a wire, so you can concentrate on the soldering.
When you open it, it's packed full of parts like this.
In use, it looks like the photo above.
The clips hold the parts or harness you're soldering, and you can solder while looking through the magnifier.
However, in my case the magnifier was too close to the work, and I was worried the soldering iron would touch it, so I couldn't use the magnifier.
That's because the frame of the magnifier (the black part around the lens in the photo above) is plastic.
If it were metal, I think I could use the magnifier without worrying.
Still, having both hands free to concentrate on soldering made the job far easier than I expected!
Buying this tool was absolutely the right call.
By the way, the soldering iron I use is a goot SR-40.
It has a fine tip and isn't expensive, so I recommend it.
I only really use it for soldering bike harnesses, so this one was all I needed.