{"id":322,"date":"2014-11-11T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/11\/11\/update-hella-good-deal-alert-7-helping-hands-from-maker-shed-and-even-cheaper-at-harbor-freight-diy\/"},"modified":"2014-11-11T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:18:42","slug":"update-hella-good-deal-alert-7-helping-hands-from-maker-shed-and-even-cheaper-at-harbor-freight-diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/11\/update-hella-good-deal-alert-7-helping-hands-from-maker-shed-and-even-cheaper-at-harbor-freight-diy\/","title":{"rendered":"*UPDATE* HELLA GOOD DEAL ALERT! $7 &#8220;Helping Hands&#8221; from Maker Shed!&#8211;and Even Cheaper at Harbor Freight!?! #diy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>UPDATE<\/small>: My lifelong compadre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northboundrain.com\/\">Adam Stein<\/a> points out that <a title=\"Helping Hands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harborfreight.com\/helping-hands-319.html\">Harbor Freight has basically the same Helping Hands<\/a> for $3.50!  *Yikes!*  BUY NOW!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0243\/7593\/products\/MKHH1_HelpingHands_800x800_grande.jpg\" width=350 align=left hspace=10 vspace=15><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t normally post stuff like this, but Maker Shed has a couple really good deals right now for folks new to soldering.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Helping Hands w\/ Magnifying Glass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makershed.com\/products\/helping-hands-w-magnifying-glass?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Weekend Workbench Soldering Tools&#038;utm_content=Weekend Workbench Soldering Tools CID_262773c4be7cebf32323468014422c2f&#038;utm_source=email%20_campaign&#038;utm_term=Helping%20Hands\">These helping hands<\/a> are a *steal* at $6.99, and make life *so much easier.* There is now almost *no* soldering task I do without using my helping hands (although I have pulled off the magnifier, which was never very useful to me).  Also, this <a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.makezine.com\/t\/r-l-cltiyhd-yhuilyhktl-yh\/\">variable-temp soldering iron<\/a> also looks promising. The reviews are mixed, but at $25, it&#8217;s probably worth taking a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: My lifelong compadre Adam Stein points out that Harbor Freight has basically the same Helping Hands for $3.50! *Yikes!* BUY NOW! I don&#8217;t normally post stuff like this, but Maker Shed has a couple really good deals right now for folks new to soldering. These helping hands are a *steal* at $6.99, and make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/11\/update-hella-good-deal-alert-7-helping-hands-from-maker-shed-and-even-cheaper-at-harbor-freight-diy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;*UPDATE* HELLA GOOD DEAL ALERT! $7 &#8220;Helping Hands&#8221; from Maker Shed!&#8211;and Even Cheaper at Harbor Freight!?! #diy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}