QuadHands Workbench | Helping Hands Soldering Stations | Soldering Iron Helping Hand Tool with 4 Magnetic Arms | Designed for Soldering Tools | Steel Base for Welding Table Top with Locking Grips

Just an amazing product. Definitely worth the money. I love it.

I love this thing. The magnetic arms are really strong, but I can take them off the yellow plate and use them on the stainless steel top of one of my work benches without having to have all four. Then I can put it back on the yellow plate and move it to my wooden work bench. Really well thought out and sturdy product. Ive had other helping hands but this is by far the most versatile.

Given as a fathers day gift, works perfectly for the little IT pieces and tiny motherboards my father is always working on. Frees up both hands, strong grip with removable rubber tubes around the metal teeth, and a very strong magnet! Perfect!

Im honestly quite shocked to realize I absolutely hate this thing. I mean, its got all the ingredients for a product Id love: incredible reviews, Made in U.S.A., quality materials, great customer service (so Ive heard)--hell, I even like the logo and color scheme. I was totally in love with this product before it arrived. I even ordered an extra 16 hand to go with it, just in case a 5-hand application presented itself at some point in the future. Unfortunately, the honeymoon phase began fading the moment my QuadHands arrived, and after only 29 days, were officially separating. As I unpacked the thing, I found the included paper that said something about the QuadHands coming with optional padding for the magnetic bases, to prevent scratching the base plate. This was odd, since all five hands already had pads permanently affixed to their bases and there was nothing else in the box. Adding to my confusion, the 8 hands had different pads than the 16 hands. The pads on the 8 hands were of a plasticky material with the QuadHands Q logo on them. They looked pretty nice and slid relatively well across the base plate. In contrast, the padding on the 16 hands (incl. the extra one I ordered) was a thin silicone-like material with a much higher degree of surface friction, which made it nearly impossible to slide across the base plate. In fact, the adhesion between the padding and base plate was stronger than the adhesive holding the pad on, so the padding on the 16 hands immediately began coming off. As it did so, it smeared adhesive on the base plate, which only compounded the problem (i.e., now the 8 hands wont slide either because the base plate is sticky). But maybe this isnt a big deal. After all, how often do you actually need to slide the hands across the base plate? As it turns out, very often. The reason being: sliding the hands across the base is the most precise way of positioning your workpiece(s). This is because the flexible arms do not stay exactly where you bend them--they rebound slightly back toward their original position. The rebound is slight, but on the scale of precision soldering work, its miles apart. Heres a concrete example... Im building an FPV racing drone. I have a small circuit board (flight controller) that I need to solder several wires to. I use 2 (QuadHands)hands to hold the flight controller in place and a third hand to hold a wire. Now, I just need to position the wire onto the solder pad. I bend the arm on the wire hand until the wire is touching the pad, then I let go. The arm immediately rebounds, leaving a gap between wire and pad. To get the wire where you need it, you have to bend the arm past that point and hope it rebounds to where it should be. This is much more difficult than it sounds, mostly because the amount of rebound is not constant. Depending on how you have the arm bent, it could spring back 1mm or 1. And in some cases, its not possible at all (for example, you cant push a wire through a solid surface and hope it rebounds). What you soon realize is that its easier to position the wire on the same plane as the solder pad, then slide the wire arm into position. Sliding has no rebound, so it stays in position when you let go. That makes it an essential feature of this product, and thats why the 16 pads refusing to slide is a deal breaker for me. More generally, my basic gripe here is that its exceedingly difficult/frustrating to position 2 objects so that theyre precisely touching. The last annoyance Ill mention is the height. This isnt the products fault, per se, but rather a detail I never considered until I used the QuadHands. When doing fine soldering work, chances are you rest your forearms on your workbench, and your workpiece is relatively close to the surface of the workbench. Well, the QuadHands holds your workpiece more like 6-8 in the air, which forces you to either perch on your elbows or hover your arms in the air. Both of these options--I found--felt awkward and made my hands much shakier than usual. You can bend the 16 arms to hold something close to the base plate, but the 8 arms arent quite long enough and struggle to stay in position when fully bent this way. In short, the QuadHands tends to hold my workpiece higher than is natural/comfortable for me to work on. Ultimately, Ive decided to return this, and in a weird way, Im actually kinda sad about it. Its so rare to find highly-rated American-made products on Amazon, and theres a huge part of me that just wants to own this thing and proudly display it on my workbench, even if I never use it. But the last time I pulled one of the 16 arms off, the magnet stayed behind, stuck to the base plate, and thats when I finally admitted to myself: this just isnt going to work. ***UPDATE March 23, 2018*** Wow. Okay. This relationship just took a radical and unexpected turn. You know how sometimes your ex shows up on your doorstep, swears theyve changed, and begs you to take them back? Analogies aside, the gist of it is this: my previous QuadHands erroneously shipped with 2 kinds of pads. Mark (the company founder) reached out to me via the comment on this review AND--get this--via a personal letter included with a brand new (i.e., correctly padded) QuadHands! What!? He even mentioned some tips for increasing precision and reducing rebound. Simply put, Marks response to my review has turned this from a 2-star experience into a 5-star experience. In fact, 5-stars is an understatement. Mark didnt just restore my faith in his product, he restored my faith in humanity and my sense of national pride. No exaggeration. This was customer service on a whole different level. At the end of the day, Im happy. The QuadHands is back on my workbench, and its everything I had hoped for and then some.

Great product.....

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Honestly, I bought this spur of the moment. Amazon recommended it to me based on past purchases. Well Ive always hated my previous helping hands for many reasons, but there is nothing to dislike here. In fact this quad hands is the best Ive ever used or seen. When it came in, I thought maybe I made a mistake and ordered two as its heavy. Opening I realize the base is incredibly sturdy. This is great to stabilize heavier loads. The helping hands magnetically apply firmly and arms are a good stiffness. I bought this to include in a mobile design and repair studio, but now Im going to get another for the main shop too. Good job Mark Richards and Quad Hands. I, in no way am connected to them. The product includes a postcard asking for feedback. I thought might as well make it public.

Just opened the packaging and really liked what I saw. Flex arms, clips,, scratch protection, yellow base were all of high quality. The combination of short and long flex arms (2 of each) will be very useful. And it seems fairly easy to buy other arm lengths etc from their online store. I also noticed that the magnets at the base of the flex arms are very strong, yet also easily detached when need be.. One bonus for me, living in a tiny NYC apartment, the whole thing is very easily assembled/disassembled - and stores easily in a box about the size of a paperback book. Beautiful. (I also appreciated the enclosed personalized note from the founder, and the worker who assembled the product. And I do admit it feels good that this was made in the US.)

Our engineers use this to grip items to solder or view under a magnifier… or both!!! In that specific role… This product performs admirably. The magnets are strong. The base is a solid foundation. Molten solder does not stick to the base, nor does the paint melt off when solder drips on it. The rubber nubbins on the bottom of the base keep it in place. The alligator clips have the perfect grabbing force. The articulating arms have minimal rebound (?) from where they’re positioned. The clips come with cute little rubbers. For your protection. It does what it does… fabulously.

The arms are not solidly firm into the base. The arms to not hold their position and are continually trying to revert to original position. Piece of rubbing - i reverted to using toes, mount, fingers and any other implement i could to try simplify the job. dont waste your money