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What would you put in a solder aid or emergency maker kit?

scottiebabe

If you are away from your workbench either in your backyard or perhaps 100's km away and you need to repair or modify your project or prototype what would be the essential tools and components needed?

I am taking some inspiration from these low cost 100-in-1 solder tool kits:

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Here is my Second Draft Attempt:

Tools Consumables Components Electronics Jellybeans Tin
Portable soldering iron Solder (Your choice leaded) USB Wall Wart spdt switch
Solder sucker Solder braid USB Power Bank banana jack
Multimeter Heat shrink USB A - micro cable banana plug
Ruler Hot glue stick USB C - C cable 1n4007 x4
Wire strippers (your-choice) Zip-ties 100 thou headers 1N4148
Side cutters Tape (your-choice) Dupont jumpers 2n3904/2n3906
Pliers Flux A piece of perf board Power N-FET
Tweezers Bismuth Solder A piece of copper clad board Axial Resistors 100,1k,10K,100K Qty 10 each
Telescoping Magnet  Flux A piece of 1.5 mm plywood Some leaded LEDs
Knife (not sure what kind)  Cyanoacrylate Glue Hookup wire (24AWG stranded likely) 7805
Bic lighter Heat Sink Sil-Pad 10 cm of cat-x network cable LM317 and potentiometer
Miniature screw driver set (the interchange bits)   small spool of 30AWG Kynar wire A few electrolytic capacitors
Alligator clip leads Copper Tape Tin of Electronics Jellybeans LM324 or LM358
Soldering Iron Stand Polydoh RPI Pico 0805 SMD Assortment
Tip Cleaner (your-choice) Blu-tac extension cord
Sharpie Stress-relieving candy power bar
Flash Light Electronics Cleaner 9V battery
Safety Glasses ESD Bag 4-40 machine screws
  Nail Polish
 
Plastic Prying 
Spudger
Scissors
Vise Grips
crescent wrench
Full Size Screw drivers
Helping Hands
Earth Ground Plug
ESD Mat
ESD Wrist Strap

I have pretty much all of these items in quantity already. So I can easily appropriate some of them to my emergency maker kit! Like wind the wires listed onto a small bobins, etc

baldengineer is also ahead of me with 0805 smd components suggestion! 

I'm trying to not go overboard with handtools but I think I could use some more...

Perhaps there are low cost modules you shouldn't leave home without? lol...

This is definitely a work in progress...

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  • in reply to dougw

    I don't hot glue enough for a glue gun to make it into the emergency kit, but I can see others justifying having it in their kit. Most of the time I heat up the end of a glue stick with hot air or a lighter than put a big gob to hold something down. When I hot glued a thermistor to a solar panel I used a magnifying glass to heat up the hot glue, no batteries required! 

  • in reply to scottiebabe

    Same here, I have a hot glue gun and it's been used zero times so far, I'm just not experienced enough with that glue to know the situations to use the tool, since there are usually other adhesives around.

    Regarding hot air tool, I do a similar thing with Polydoh (it's supposed to be softened in boiling water, but hot air tool works better for small quantities of the pellets.

  • in reply to scottiebabe

    I recently used hot glue to fashion a strain relief (along with heatshrink) when connecting wire to a Kelvin clip - the wire needed to be immobilized to prevent stress on the solder joint:

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    Sometimes it is hard to beat the hot glue solution.

    How would you tackle this build?

  • in reply to shabaz

    I would hot glue more if I were better at it.  It could be that I need a better tool as I always have problems with dripping, but it's probably just me.  I guess I'm impatient too because it takes a while for the glue to set up (it could be that I get it too hot).

    Maybe I'll get a USB gun and see if I can do better.  If I could apply the hot glue with some precision, I think that I'd use it with some of my 3D prints, but I doubt if I would ever get that to work.

    My wife uses it successfully for crafting, so it's probably just a skill issue.

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  • in reply to shabaz

    I would hot glue more if I were better at it.  It could be that I need a better tool as I always have problems with dripping, but it's probably just me.  I guess I'm impatient too because it takes a while for the glue to set up (it could be that I get it too hot).

    Maybe I'll get a USB gun and see if I can do better.  If I could apply the hot glue with some precision, I think that I'd use it with some of my 3D prints, but I doubt if I would ever get that to work.

    My wife uses it successfully for crafting, so it's probably just a skill issue.

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