Magnetic Helping Hand, Soldering Helping Hands, PCB Circuit Board Holder with 3X LED Magnifying Lamp, Flexible Metal Arms Heavy Duty Base Electronic Repair Tool (Magnetic with Lamp)

I use it to refurbish console controllers. The magnetic arms are great. I can hold a PCB with out damaging it and keep it steady. It's an excellent tool to have. It's worth the purchase.

Great for holding parts for glueing, soldering etc. Solid magnetic hold to the base.

I bought it but was skeptical. Got it in the other day, and it really is nice, well thought out, engineered. I haven’t use the light and magnifying glass, but this is just such a genius solution I can put the printed circuit board in almost any position, and have it be solid. The clamps are well done, they won’t bite (though I think I can remove the plastic or rubber pieces that make them just clamp if I need for some reason alligator clips) and also I think they fit the standard so you can change them out for specific reasons on some jobs.It’s solid, and if you attach the rubber feet, it doesn’t slip. Gooseneck clips, as well as four pointed ones where you can align them so a circuit board with four holes can sit in it, only improvement I can think of is to somehow make it so if you use the pointed pieces you can secure it down. But it’s not a complaint, just a suggestion. Well worth the money!

Wish I could turn back the clock!I wasn't aware this option existed and I've been using one of those old-school flimsy extra hands with the little horse shoe weights forever. It was terrible!Only downsides:The magnifying glass light doesn't come with a power adapter, so I needed to use one of my old ones I had laying around.The hands do have a tiny bit of bounce back even though advertised otherwise.The plate is a little to small so things get crowded.

I purchased the version that included the light:For some reason the size of the very heavy duty base plate is incorrect (as of 7/21) in the description and product photos, you can easily see the dimensions vs. proportion are off. The actual base plate size is exactly 6"X9". A very nice size for soldering PC boards, wire leads, etc.. It's thick heavy powder coated ferrous metal, not stainless as in the description and the magnetic bases stick to it quite well.Some reviewers complained the clips have a hollow core and are hard to tighten securely.. well, take some 8 or 10awg wire- solder it into the clip... then cut it off flush at the end. You then have a solid core clip that you can tighten as much as you need to without damaging it.FWIW- the light is really nice to have with a good quality lens, spend the couple of extra bucks now vs much more in the future to buy one separately.

Was soldering a lot of wires and looked for some extra hands. This magnetic helping hands nailed this need! It is solid, lots of arms, the arms stay where you put them, has a light and the magnets are strong. I absolutely love this and it made my soldering job sooooo much easier. But, a couple of improvements are needed.A. The light needs to be brighter. On full bright, it needs a little more.B. The alligator clips covered in shrink tube really don’t have much strength, and they either the shrink tube removed or need to be stronger. (I’ll probably remove them)All-in-All, great tool to add to my tool set! Happy with my purchase.

I recently bought a cheap set of "helping hands" from Harbor Freight because I needed something for an immediate job I was doing (repairing a gaming console controller). Never used any of these before but realized how necessary they are for these sorts of jobs, especially with poor eyesight. Love the ease of use by moving around the "arms" (they are on magnets) you can either use two long or short ones or all of them stuck to the iron baseplate. And the magnifier light is the same...it's also on a magnetic gooseneck so you can take it off the mount if you don't wan to use it. But the magnifier and USB powered light is terrific-nice and bright, you can even change the color! Definitely worth the extra $5 buy it!

Arms are both flexible and stable, generally staying close to where you want them (for relatively lightweight boards; <100g). Magnifier is clear and doesn’t appear to have major defects resulting in aberrations. LED is bright and doesn’t get hot, but color temp slightly too high (would prefer closer to 5600K, but it doesn’t affect any readability on normal silkscreen); very conveniently can be run on USB battery.To that end, it would be nice if it included a small USB/5V fan for smoke/fumes, but I can’t fault this product for not having one.