Soldering Helping Hands 10X Magnifying Glass with light and Stand PCB Holder, Drdefi Soldering Station Third Hand Tools Magnifier with Thickening Alligator Clip Large Magnetic Base for Repairing

Makes working on my hobbies a dream. Great lighting, and the magnifying glass makes detail work easy. Highly recommend this tool.

High quality. Stable. Flexible. Everything I want in one of these. The light is obnoxiously bright. The magnifying lens is great.

I love it. Well designed. Just what I needed. Had a small issue. Contacted customer support and the issue was quickly rectified. Thank you customer support.

This soldering holder stand is very sturdy and helpful. The base is a solid metal sheet, so it is very heavy and keeps the stand in place when you are moving the arms around. The magnify glass is nice because of the built in light, but I found it didn’t maneuver as easily as I wanted, and it didn’t have as much optical zoom as I would have wished. The little clip arms magnetically snap to the base and they hold pretty strongly. Overall great and useful soldering helper stand, but the magnifying glass could use some improvements.

As I've gotten older, better light and magnification have become a necessity for doing any detail work. That means I need to grow an extra set of hands just to hold a magnifying glass and flashlight. Since that's not happening, I acquired this Drdefi Magnetic Helping Hands with magnifier instead.I really do wish I had purchased one of these years ago as it has quickly become one of my go to tools.The base is a nice sized, heavy piece of steel with a soft-covered bottom. The magnets on the adjustable arms are indeed strong and require two hands to remove. Needless to say, they don't wobble or move without some input.The magnifier does just that. There's some distortion once you leave the center of the lens, but things are still visible. The light ring includes both brightness and temperature settings and runs off USB (adapter included.) The magnifier/light can be mounted to the base plate, but I found it got in the way doing so. Instead, the kit includes a table clamp mount for the magnifier/lamp that is much more useful as it doesn't limit you to having the rest of the workstation sitting in front of you to use it. I actually keep the magnifier/lamp attached to my desk even when I'm not using the workstation because I've found it's useful to have at hand when confronted with small print and the like.The Drdefi Magnetic Helping Hands with magnifier has really been a game changer for me.

First, my credentials. I'm 50 years old and my eyes were never good and they're not getting any better. I've been soldering for 40 years in one capacity or another, but for the last 5 or so I've been relying more and more on magnifiers at my workstation. I've even worked professionally for an electronics manufacturer as a hand-solderer, so when it comes to having quality tools at my workstation, I've become something of a self-proclaimed expert. *ahem*. So the first photo is just to give you an idea of what my workstation is all about.My current soldering project involves changing out the various connectors on all of my LiPo battery packs from whatever they happened to be, to XT90 connectors, so I won't need 30 different connections for my chargers taking up space, I'll only need my XT90's and I'm good. If you have never changed the connector on a LiPo battery pack, let me tell you what that's like right now. LiPo's can never be totally discharged or you destroy them. So there is ALWAYS a healthy amount of current in a LiPo battery pack. Needless to say, when cutting into the wires and stripping them and soldering them, there is always a very real danger of a short circuit. And a short circuit of a battery capable of delivering a hundred amps is not a pretty thing to see or do. Think "welding flash" and lots of heat. So of course, I use a set of "helping hands" to help me accomplish my task. A soldering iron in one hand, a wire in the other hand, and a...ahh...3rd hand for the solder...it just doesn't work. So this piece of equipment is ESSENTIAL to me, like a fish needs water and people need air I need a "helping hands" to help me do my work.The second photo was my...ahem..."solution" until now. I literally held an XT90 connector in a pair of vice grips and used the "helping hands" that I had to hold the wire while I did my soldering thing. If told you this was less than ideal, would you believe me? Yeah, I'd believe me too. I mean...it WORKED. Just like riding a bicycle on the turnpike would "work". Which is to say, barely.Photo 3 is the side-by-side comparison of what I once used, with this new wondertool from some magical kingdom of rainbows and sunshine. Or, a company in China. I mean, which ever. To say that this "helping hands" is better than my old "helping hands" is like saying winning the lottery twice is better than being kicked by a horse and falling off a cliff. Yes. Yes it is.Those little arms? You think they're bolted down and never move? Oh no. They're magnetic. And STRONGLY magnetic. As in, they stay where you put them. So you can put the arms you need right where you need them to be. And the arms you don't need, you can put in back, or stick em in a drawer. And nice little "don't destroy it" pads on the alligator clips? Nice. And the base of the thing is solid steel (and has a rubber pad beneath) so it ain't scoochin around on you. Once again, it stays where you put it.The light and magnifier is also an order of magnitude better than what I once used. I can actually SEE with this. The light is PLENTY bright enough, and is even adjustable in brightness several steps, as well as having a choice between warm and cool color temperatures. Both of which are very nice visually and give a nice, even light all over the work place. My old "helping hands" didn't even have a light, and that made me sad. This one even has a cord plenty long to go under my workstation and find a spot in the power strip. And it makes me happy.To make a long story short, I want to be buried with it.I don't care what kind of craft or hobby or even professional do-it-for-a-living work you do that you might have a use for this, trust me, you have a use for this. My old "helping hands" is in the trash now. It's going to "helping hands" heaven, if there is one. I'm pretty sure there isn't. I don't even think they have a saint. This new one has fulfilled a life-long dream of not setting my house on fire with a shorted LiPo battery pack. It's a good dream.Live the dream. Buy this thing now before someone tries to take it away. 5 stars.

I received this item, unboxed it and found that the work surface table was missing! No one at the helm in Quality Control. :-( Returned item