Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: The Best Helping Hands!

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Ever since Adam first built his portable soldering station, viewers have asked about his favorite helping hands clips used for that build. Adam finally is able to track them down during his recent soldering station rebuild, and explains why these helping hands are so much better than any alligator clip system he's used in the past!

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[longphan]

I just love listening to Adam talking so passionately about a simple tool

[KorsadOakenbrow]

I have been looking for this since I was 14 and started working with model trains. So many helping hands have been utter failures and some have caused damage to my trains during repairs. Thank you Mr. Adam

[speedwaynutt]

Honestly I kinda want to see a Adam Savage Worst Tools. Stuff he thought was going to be great but sucked/didn't like

[SCULPTURAMAplus]

I have these and a quick tip for tensioning if you're not familiar with them and think they won't tighten up: the washer on the side of the nut has a thread on it so matter how much you tighten the nut it won't have an effect unless you back off the nut first and tighten the bolt instead. Then tighten up the nut when the joint is as tight as you want it and it'll all hold together nice and tight. Hopefully that'll be useful to someone. Van

[nuwandawc]

These have been on my Wish list for two years as I watched the price slowly fall. This morning? Sold out and higher than the original price when I added them. Awesome.

[hakonsoreide]

For alligator clip wires, I swapped to ones with banana jack connectors on the back. They are sometimes a bit on the big side when working on cramped breadboards, but when they're not too big, it's so much easier to work with, and I can also connect my multimeter directly to them with a banana cable when needed. It works particularly well for me since I already have a ton of banana cables that I use for modular synth music making.

[TheHylianBatman]

I hadn't really considered how necessary holding things still was.
Yet, now that I see it, there's no way I could ever unsee it!

[rusemers]

YES!!!!….I have been going to do something about dodgy alligator clamps for the past 50 years. It took me all of two minutes to find an Australian supplier and place an order. Thank you so much Adam for your sharing of ideas and methods.

[Cahos_Rahne_Veloza]

Adam Savage's Tested IS my Favorite Tool and Food for thought and Adam Savage is definitely one of my very most Favorite persons in the world 😊

[adamspecht]

My shop hasn't had these in it for decades so I guess I can wait until sometime in January for them. Thanks for doing this video. I've been wanting those clips since I first saw them used on this channel!

[ryan_j_peck]

Loved the pause moment and the welcome back! Adding these to me growning Amazon wish list of tools I need.

[zf]

Oh man, I recently bought some utterly crappy, yet highly rated, Weller helping hands and I just threw them in the recycling bin a couple weeks ago. I had given up hope of finding truly usable helping hands... and then magically today here's this video in my feed. Thank you Adam!

[Cubicle]

These finally arrived this week. While a bit pricy, I am "kind of" happy with it. The overall quality is better than I expected but some parts are suspect. As Adam noted the screws probably should be swapped out (5mm x 16 button heads). The acorn nuts on the armature clamping plates are being used as they are intended, purely decorative. At each joint one of the plates is a through hole and the other is tapped, this is what provides the clamping force, the acorn nut would be working to pull on the treaded plate not adding clamping pressure. That being said I would have liked to see the clamping plates a bit thicker to get a few more threads in them. The stock plates are 2mm thick so with a standard 5mm 0.8 thread pitch you are only getting 2 1/2 threads to take all the clamping force.

[Sceme]

I could listen to you talk about tools all day

[EMSGillians]

Been wanting these since I saw your first solder station video. They were just on sale for prime day and picked a set up for like $35! Thanks for sharing, these things are SWEET!

[profosist]

I bought this the first time he shared this year's back. Still have them, they work great!

[rmwright]

Yea, I went and purchased a set, on your recommendation. Late January delivery. Good things come to those who wait.

[stevengrosse]

What?! It's been 9 hours and they are still available on Amazon!! Finally a tool that doesn't sell out before I see the video.

[samdonutarnold]

Been doing jewelry work for a while and recognised those right away! GRS even makes pure tungston tips for soldering or fusing metals like platinum that need high heat. Love these things!