Pana-Vise For Small Circuit Card Soldering

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I love my quad-hands, but the long arms do me almost no good and it's hard to get the flexible arms to hold small circuit cards at a given angle and steady. I designed my own small, pana-vise to use with my quad hands setup. It's mainly used for USB microscope soldering but could be used for other tasks. There are two grooves on each face to accommodate thin and thick circuit cards. The vise swivels 20 degrees in all directions and can be rotated and slid into perfect position once on the quadhands setup. Clamping and unclamping the pana-vise is done by a pinching motion between thumb and forefinger. Enjoy! Quadhands plus this vise is a super flexible soldering setup, I hope you enjoy it. Check out the pix - feel free to make fun of my soldering ability. Of course, I love 3D printing, but don't hesitate to purchase screws, nuts, etc. as I don't feel that small 3D printed threads are worth the trouble and not sure they would work for this anyway. You should be able to drive the #10 screw through the handle with cordless screwdriver, or even by hand. I put a dab of super glue on it just to make sure it doesn't move. The #6 can be standard or self tapping and will go in by hand easily. Magnets are a press fit on the bottom with about .002" interference so not to bad to push in. Nut is same story. Design was done in Fusion 360.