Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool:
Flickr user rarebeasts found this adjustable resistor bending tool. It’s used to make perfectly-spaced right-angle bends in resistors so that they fit into printed circuit boards correctly.
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Anyone know where to buy this?
Good question!
Looks like a job for someone with a 3D printer…
Aw, someone’s simply filed a notch on an old homemade caliper. The cost of the things these days, you could do it for virtually nothing.
This appears to be a PACE Conform 1 tool
http://www.pacedirect.com/product.php?id=1868
They are quite expensive, hard to find, and I’ve never found a cheap knock-off version; but they are a joy to use.
Harbor Freight USA has $2, six inch, plastic calipers ( http://www.harborfreight.com/6-inch-utility-caliper-7914.html ) and $10 twenty-four inch, aluminum calipers ( http://www.harborfreight.com/24-inch-jumbo-aluminum-caliper-96509.html ). Should be easy enough to modify those to get something that works like the above tool. I just can’t come up with a good enough idea. What do you guys think?