Angled multimeter probes
Good day folks. Here's something which I'd find incredibly handy but can't seem to find for the life of me: multimeter probes which have their tips bent pretty close to 90 degrees to allow for easier working under a magnifier. Louis Rossmann seems to have these but I can't tell what they are or if they're actually something homebrew. Maybe there's some really fancy technical term for them that I don't know and that's why I haven't been able to find any, so perhaps someone can set me straight on that.
I was actually thinking of making my own: I have some probe handles (just the plastic+wire part) which came with an assortment of tips and connectors and these screw onto the end of the plastic handles which take a standard M3 thread. I was thinking of fashioning some tips out of something like paper clips or other thin yet stiff metal which can be bent rather easily but actually retains its shape afterwards. It'd then be relatively easy to terminate these with a lug through which I'd pass a short M3 bolt to attach to the end of the plastic part. I'd then sharpen the tips up a bit and there's that. Trouble is I'm not sure if they'd actually STAY sharp overtime, as paper clips are relatively flimsy metal...that's one thing I've noticed with most of my tips: they dull rather quickly, but that could be normal and I'm expecting too much of them, so I occasionally have to take them to a piece of sandpaper or even a grinding stone to get them looking decent again. Any thoughts ? Cheers.
I was actually thinking of making my own: I have some probe handles (just the plastic+wire part) which came with an assortment of tips and connectors and these screw onto the end of the plastic handles which take a standard M3 thread. I was thinking of fashioning some tips out of something like paper clips or other thin yet stiff metal which can be bent rather easily but actually retains its shape afterwards. It'd then be relatively easy to terminate these with a lug through which I'd pass a short M3 bolt to attach to the end of the plastic part. I'd then sharpen the tips up a bit and there's that. Trouble is I'm not sure if they'd actually STAY sharp overtime, as paper clips are relatively flimsy metal...that's one thing I've noticed with most of my tips: they dull rather quickly, but that could be normal and I'm expecting too much of them, so I occasionally have to take them to a piece of sandpaper or even a grinding stone to get them looking decent again. Any thoughts ? Cheers.
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