Microscope for Soldering and Inspection Work

Be sure your stereo-zoom has a cover thing screwed into the front of it. always good to protect the active optics. We have a rework station with a sliding X Y table on it.... and a scope mounted on it... but... my hands are not steady as when young..( need to find technology to assist with that!) Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 1/14/2017 9:20:05 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cclist at sydex.com writes: On 01/14/2017 12:48 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote: I use a B&L stereo zoom microscope for inspection, but have never used it for soldering. That is, after soldering in, say, a TQFP, I'll use it to examine for misregistration and solder bridges. But I can't imagine soldering under it. For that, where normal vision doesn't suffice, I use a head-mounted binocular loupe. Seems to work just fine. --Chuck