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[William H. Fite]

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 <artgodwin at 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 <jimlux at 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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