Aluminum Soldering Tabletop, size 80x45cm, Nine Pockets, Soft Underside
Almost a dozen pockets to hold your various parts, underside covered in velours to prevent scratching the table underneath. The ST80 is a robust 80x45cm aluminum soldering tabletop, turning your desktop into a compact workplace for soldering electronics. The handmade tabletop features almost a dozen pockets to hold your various parts. The colored aluminum worksheet ensures that even the smaller parts can be seen while working and that fallen drops and splashes of solder will not stick to the surface.
The underside of the tabletop is covered with velours to prevent scratching the table underneath. The two lifting handles on the sides allow you to easily pick up the whole tabletop with everything on it and store it away for later use.
Features
- colored aluminum tabletop, measuring 80x45cm
- almost a dozen (numbered) pockets at the top for parts
- ruler engraved on the left
- ground connector on the right
- velours underside to prevent scratching the table underneath
- when done soldering, the whole tabletop and everything on it can be picked up by the lifting handles and stored away for later use
Usage
The main driver behind creating this tabletop was a lack of space when I started my little electronics shop. As many of you know from experience, I have seen pictures of your workshops online. Your desktop gets cluttered quickly with all sorts of tools, parts, and partial projects—often to such an extent that it makes working painful and takes the pleasure out of a hobby that should be great fun!
Furthermore, soldering irons and other hot stuff quickly damage an ordinary desktop, which becomes useless for other, cleaner tasks. A set-on tabletop like this allows you to turn an ordinary desk into a (temporary) soldering/assembly/working table without introducing a dedicated workbench in an office or home environment.
The tabletop my brother created for me—see the picture at the bottom—is perfect for my soldering needs. We decided to see if we could turn it into a product, so much so that we changed the only thing: adding some color to the aluminum plate, making all these tiny SMD parts more visible against the aluminum backdrop. And because of the large amount of work involved, we replaced the wooden frame for the pockets with a laser-cut frame.
Different sizes and colors
Please don’t hesitate to message me if you prefer a different size or color or need a left-handed version. However, building a custom tabletop may take up to four weeks.
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