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My Electronics Bench Gets a Major Upgrade

🕑 Added 2024-06-29 15:09:44 +0000 UTC

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M Drouard

Love the videos, forgive me I may have asked before. What program are you using for 3D modeling?

Alan Wood

Most excellent.

Lee Hambrick

Great vid. Couldn't agree more. Even working on a 50 year old hooptie or piece if equipment there's a circuit board in there somewhere that NAPA doesn't stock. A decent bench is a godsend.

gregory mais

nice set up

Bill Scott

The wife has you pegged.

Thomas Scheumann

Wes, been married going on 45 years and one thing I have learned is to listen to the wife. She's uncannily right 100% of the time (just ask her). Having said that, I'm selfishly glad you did not listen to her, THIS time. Nice bench. Well done!

Curtis Roberts

Mrs. Wes: I'm not spending my weekend working on this. Next scene: Mrs. Wes is holding the table top to cut it in half. LOL Nice project. It came out great.

South Street Barbecue

You could say that, but since I already unsubscribed in a fit of anger, I wouldn't see it. If I had seen it though, I would have argued that I said I "prefer to believe", which could be couched as an opinion, and as such, could not be challenged, however pedantic (and right) you may be. This reply leaves you the natural response about the incredible runon sentence I just used. Please feel free to use it, since I'm not here to read it.

Watch Wes Work

Still in the shop. I'm currently working on a remote control.

Shun Lagueux

I would be pedantic and say that forceps are locking and therefore those are, in fact, tweezers. That my guess anyway.

Travis Sabatini

What happened to the logging robot??? 🤷🤷🤷

Dr. Internet

Great job, Wes. You built an excellent workbench for electronics and got a desk! Love Mrs. Wes and the flip-flops!

David Yates

That does look like a sweet setup Wes, now I have electronics bench envy!

James Riordan

Wonderful - and Noga cameo showing that chamfers and deburring truly are what separate hominids from beasts

John Heveran

Mrs Wes is a woman after my own heart, too funny! Weekend starts on Thursday in anticipation.

Watch Wes Work

That might be too nice for me. Prussa just released a sweet new Delta style professional printer. Too bad it costs $10k!

Jamie Pilkey

Wes - not saying lightning will strike twice on this, but the channel I work for reached out to JBC for one of their soldering iron stations, and they actually sent them. I feel very spoiled every time I have to fix my broken junk. Maybe try it, worst thing they can say is no. Same with Prusa, see if they'll send you an XL, that thing is slick.

South Street Barbecue

It's nice to see the law of averages finally catch up so something goes right for you! Unfortunately, you used the word "tweezers" on something I prefer to believe are forceps, so naturally I have to unsubscribe...

CapnMac82

Cool bench (despite Skeptical Wife being Skeptical :-) ) PLA will tap, but, I've never enjoyed the "feeling" of what it's doing to the taps when cutting. Mind, using PC or Nylon12 or PEEK (if price is no object) can improve that. You probably ought to look into a bench magnifier to clamp on the edge, too.

Eric Corse

Hot dang that takes me back 40 years when I worked with electronics guys. Break out the bread board..

dozerman53111

great job. Well done sir.

John Lottes

I was a bench tech for 15 yrs. The best soldering station I had was a Pace MBT 250. Pricey but it could do everything I wanted.

Tom Hollowell

Swearing, what swearing? Evidently it never makes it on camera. Any of my projects that have significant complexity, have lots of swearing. This job looked to be a smooth project.

StarWatcher

Just as good as your auto videos! Enjoyed every minute, wife conversation was familiar to me, just great fun!

Watch Wes Work

Yeah I have a Hakko desoldering tool. I don't use it a whole lot. Pretty much everything except big caps and connectors has gone surface mount, which is a whole new learning curve for me.

Curtis Coon

Mrs. Wes is a wise woman, but you got it to work with, I'm sure, just a bit of cursing. Love her OHAS approved safety flip-flops. Great video. Looking forward to your next, regardless of what it maybe.

Greg

Nice job on the bench, I was a marine electronics tech for the USCG for 23 years, and I know just what kind of money the gov spends on the likes of Vidmar and Lista lol. If you have a few bucks left in the soldering equipment budget, I would add a vacuum de-soldering pump, the spring piston ones work ok, but the vacuum irons are easier to use. The other fantastic thing is a resistweez, its a pair of tweezers that are powered by your solder station usually with foot pedal control, they are amazing for soldering multipin connectors and other stuff that's tightly populated and super fidly, you hold the thing with the iron, heat it, add solder and then remove the heat all while still holding it. game changer for soldering amphenol connectors. And I really like my wiha precision screwdriver set, its got torx, allen flat and philips, and was not bad money at all.

BitterCynic

Very nice bench! As for the ESD protection, nice to have but a bit overkill outside of data recovery or some very fancy sensitive AND expensive electronics manufacturing and repair.