I went shopping for the sole purpose of acquiring a soldering iron stand and was very dissatisfied with the prices and designs of the supports. It seems that there was not a single ham radio among the designers. Yes, I myself would have better invented and made them! Why not?
At home, in the "bins", there was a piece of automatic reclosure wire 1x10 about a meter
and a suitable pine plank.
He carefully removed the insulation from the wire and wrapped it with a spiral directly on the metal case of the soldering iron, wrapping it with a piece of cardboard so that the soldering iron could fit freely inside the spiral.
The tip of the spiral about 2 cm bent at a right angle, a little further made a loop under the screw.
I drilled a hole with a diameter of 3.5 mm in the plank from the edge, inserted the end of the spiral into it with effort, and finally fixed the spiral with a screw.
I drilled two recesses for rosin and solder,
closing them with a metal jar of shoe polish.
At the bottom of the jar, on the edge, I drilled a hole with a diameter of 3 mm and secured it with a screw on the plank. By turning the jar around the screw, you get access to solder and rosin.
Now, accidentally overturning the stand, do not lose the rosin with solder and have a small container for storing little things.
From the opposite edge from the spiral, I fixed a wooden clothespin on the screws. The assistant - the "third hand" turned out.
On the back side of the base with Moment glue, I glued two rubber strips from the old bicycle chamber for anti-skid on the table surface.
If you take a wooden base of large size, you can mount a socket with a regulator on it and then, as today's youth say, “it will be really cool!”
