Dave's pokey thing - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Kalin
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2017, 03:29:21 pm
content: What do you call that pokey stick he uses in his videos and where can you buy them? My google Fu failed me so you guys are my only hope.

author: Fortran
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2017, 03:42:24 pm
content: You mean a spudger?http://www.ebay.com/itm/301952020221

author: Vtile
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2017, 03:56:55 pm
content: Unfortunately atleast some of them seems to be carbonfiber reinforced plastic. I measured 100..300 ohms of resistance in mine (one third from the tip) so that should be kept in mind with live high voltage circuits.

author: tkuhmone
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2017, 04:17:38 pm
content: I have similar one. I measured it with Fluke DMM, tips were 1cm apart and pressed firmly against material. Resistance was around 200 ohms or even below that...

author: Vtile
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2017, 04:54:31 pm
content: Quote from: tkuhmone on April 01, 2017, 04:17:38 pmIt must be ESD regulations, but I would have thought the resistance would have been several kilo-ohms.Did you get yours from local electronic shed like partco or abroad.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2017, 04:56:22 pm
content: Wish I could get more of the ones I use, which are originally ejection tools for pyrotechnics. Nice milled stainless steel body with a rounded edge and bevelled down on the one side.

author: tkuhmone
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2017, 05:19:22 pm
content: Quote from: Vtile on April 01, 2017, 04:54:31 pm...locally, partco...

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 01, 2017, 09:16:33 pm
content: I just put some 1/4" plastic rod in a pencil sharpener and there you go. Instant insulated pointy thingie.

author: yuzuha
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 07, 2017, 09:49:09 pm
content: The ones I see now are mostly for taking I phones apart. I have an old one that seemed to be a big black hex rod with a Philips head screwdriver on one and a flat head on the other and was about 8 inches long. Think it was used for tuning IF coils in old radios and TVs but the flat end is okay for scraping solder (some sort of carbon/glass filled nylon or something?) I also have some smaller red and blue plastic hex rods used for tuning small IF coils and trimmer caps, but the black rod is way to huge for that.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 08, 2017, 12:07:02 am
content: Quote from: Vtile on April 01, 2017, 03:56:55 pmYeah, they're made that way to be ESD-safe. They're not intended for high voltage stuff in any way, they're for disassembling computers and the like.

author: edavid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 08, 2017, 02:21:22 am
content: Menda 35621 and 35622 are very popular.http://menda.descoindustries.com/MendaCatalog/Hand-and-Power-Tools/Probes-and-Spudgers/Nylon/35622/http://menda.descoindustries.com/MendaCatalog/Hand-and-Power-Tools/Probes-and-Spudgers/Nylon/35621/