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Your cart is empty.The PanaVise Circuit Board Holder Head helps you work quicker and smarter! The top of the line holder for working with circuit boards, this model has a is 5/8" diameter shaft (15.9mm) that makes it compatible with all 300 series bases. This head can hold circuit boards up to 12" (304.8mm) wide and up to 0.156 (4mm) thick. The arms move independently and feature V shaped grooves. The Notches positioned at the arm tips conveniently hold smaller parts for easy wiring and soldering. A ratcheted pivot point holds boards horizontally, vertically or any angle in between.
Train man
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2024
I design my own control systems for my model railroad layout. One of my really large and complex circuit board designs is 12" x 12". It just fits into this holder. The holder makes assembly so much easier to do than trying to hold the board any other way. With this holder, I can get just the right height and angle of the board for maximum ease of installing and soldering components.
R. Smith
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2021
I've had the other PanaVise attachment and tried ti use it to solder on boards, and it's been hit/miss. This should make the job much easier. Assembly was a snap. Used some Locktite blue on the bar screw threads so it won't come apart or loosen.Seems well thought out, and durable. Good product!
Lee
Reviewed in Canada on January 27, 2021
Great quality. Note: this is for large circuit boards, mother boards etc. Great for performing testing or soldering. It’s solid and robust. You get what you pay for!!!
wilsonpicket
Reviewed in Canada on March 10, 2020
This product is NOT for working on delicate circuit boards. Being made of cast aluminium and all metal parts it’s like a giant static discharge generator. Clamping is not well thought out as edge to edge on a populated board results in circuit or component contacts by the vertical aluminium arms.. It is then coupled to an aluminium neck, coupled to a metal post to a metal ball socket, metal base and zap....your board gets a static charge delivered to it from base to board...all conductive.In this day and age it should not be too hard to design something that is suited to its application. Don’t get me wrong. This, like all PanaVise products, is well built. But not for this. Great for holding anything but a delicate circuit board that requires isolation from those pesky ESD moments. Instead PanaVise should use heat resistant ESD safe plastic to make both the arms and cross member.The thing is, I am getting tired of buying stuff that is poorly designed, poorly manufactured and foisted on us at prices that are too high for the quality, or the lack there of.The build quality is there, even if the finishing is a bit suspect, but how their designers missed the obvious here is disturbing. Overall it just gets one star.
Dr. Clint D. Harper
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2019
We actually use this circuit board holder to hold holographic plates in our university electro-optics lab. For our application the holder works perfectly. If it works for holography where movement of a fraction of a wavelength of light can degrade the image, this tool should work very well securely supporting circuit boards. Great value!
THE REAL PHOENIX
Reviewed in Canada on August 5, 2018
Expect a huge unit, the picture doesn't make justice to this massive support. Seems sturdy and works well with 350 base.
kryzma
Reviewed in Mexico on May 17, 2018
Cumple bien su propósito, es de buena calidad casi todo, las únicas criticas son el tubo horizontal, no esta a la altura de los demás componentes en cuanto a calidad, creí que sería solido pero esta hueco y con rebabas en los extremos. En las abrazaderas no se pueden utilizar placas pcb pequeñas como para móviles, porque quedan flojas, tendré que recurrir a un segundo sujetador en esos casos.
Joel
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016
Its designed for big circuit boards, not suited to tablet or cell phone boards. You'd really only want to use it on a sturdy circuit board, as the "window latch" compression mechanism lacks the ability to fine tune the pressure being placed on the circuit board. As well, I didn't anticipate that I'd be working on a circuit board "in the air". Normally I'd be looking down on the bench with my forearms resting on the bench. Working with this vice, feels totally foreign, as you're working on your elbows, and you lose the advantage of having a work surface. This latter comment is a preference, but former comment about the compression adjustment, I believe to be fair and objective.
Tony
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2013
As I wrote for the base - I have been soldering circuit boards since the dawn of time and had some make shift clumsy circuit board holder. I finally broke down and spent the money to kit up a PanaVise system with 315 head and absolutely love it. I suggest also buying the mini vise 203 Jr. because the jaws on the 315 are larger and work on 75% of the boards but not so much on the small boards with components near the edge. Now I can switch between the two in a twist of the knob. Another work of advise, don't bolt it down to your bench, bolt it to a nice flat piece of hardwood with that sticky style shelf liner on the bottom, stays put, doesn't tip over, and you can move it when you want the bench back.
Bigg Dogg
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2012
There are just some circuit boards that are beyond the capacity of helping hands. for those occasions it's PanaVise 315 to the rescue! US made in Nevada, it allows me the ability to not only solder and desolder without holding the circuit board, it also allows for ESD safety as you are not handling the board nearly as much as some ad-hoc situations. The 315 must be used with the full size PanaVise base, otherwise the board and the holder will cause it to become top-heavy. I love the fact that you can put the circuit board on a wide range of angles from straight up and down to horizontal and every angle inbetween. Sturdily built for a long duty cycle. I wish all my tools were built as well as this.
Radclyffe
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2011
Had occasion to use my PanaVise circuit board holder last week. The board I was working on was quite large and unbalanced w/ some heavy components (transformers) off center in one section of the board. The circuit board holder held up fine to the rework I was doing - including flipping the board over to see its top and bottom sides.I use my PanaVise equipment in the field - so it has to be mobile (not affixed permanently to a work bench). I have my PanaVise base mounted onto the Panavise tray base mount (model 312). The tray's generous circumference and hefty weight enabled me to work on the over-sized and unbalanced board w/o it all toppling over. It was quite stable. PanaVise offers another weighted base mount (model 308) that would also work well in this application.In summary, the PanaVise circuit board holder works well and as intended when mounted on a stable base.
C. Mack
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2011
I'm picturing row upon row of Chinese techs lined up at their work stations, soldering irons in hand, maybe some hot air rework, PC boards snapping effortlessly into circuit board holders not unlike the PanaVise 315, their board holders working perfectly. Don't expect that from PanaVise though. Clamp down on one arm and it moves one way, clamp on the other arm and it moves the other way. Might be great for non-planar applications but my boards are all flat. PanaVise has been on the scene for decades and I would have hoped they kept up a little better. Instead it looks like the name of the game is make it cheap, make it cheap and make it cheap.
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