Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
During a two week hiatus at Bell Labs I used a micro-manipulator to weld thin gold wires to power transistor elements and the case leads.

Basically, it was a three dimensional pantograph with a fractional motion ratio such that a relatively large hand motion produced a minute probe movement. You might want to experiment with a 2D version first; should be able to construct a trial version fairly quickly.

Or, if you're rolling in money, there's always the professionals...


https://micromanipulator.com/

https://www.wpiinc.com/applications/...n/manipulators
the guy with the giant furnace on the front page of the group, Rob Bonifacio has a 2D pantograph build on his website, might be worth looking at. https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...cio+pantograph His design is set to do one-to-one copies of patterns with a plasma cutter, but it might give you some ideas on how to build what you need. And he sells a kit. I don't expect too many people who hang out on a homemade tool website can afford commercial special purpose tools. I know I sure can't. I mostly buy broken stuff and try to fix it, myself. Of course, I'm also a cheap bastrich.

Bill