On the iron or on my hair? :P
I suppose it might work as hair gel…
Never had a component forced in my skin ;-)
Burn marks on the other hand:
– electrostatic discharge from iron tip to index finger left a hole, in my skin that is;
– burned index finger on iron while trying to keep it steady (yep, very stupid);
– shape of DIP burned into middle finger (including pin 1 indicator) as a result of checking whether or not it was running hot;
– burned of the hairs of my right forearm as a result of a jet flame after throwing a lit match in an empty PVC glue bottle. Oh wait this is of topic :-)
One time, I was staring so intently at the circuit that I didn’t look at what I was doing as I passed the soldering iron from one hand to the other. Unfortunately, the habit of holding a pencil was so ingrained that I gripped the hot iron like a #2 pencil. I actually heard the skin burning before I felt it. Yikes! The worst thing was that holding a pencil was not very comfortable for a long time.
P.S. Sorry for you kiddies who don’t know what a pencil is, since nobody writes by hand any more these days… :-)
our hackerspaces vacuum cleaner probably has about $500 in parts inside it. We were thinking of a competition that involved making the coolest things out of whatever you could find on the floor.
I once stepped on a max232 (dil) barefoot!
Lego has nothing on that pain, I had to pull it out, not fun :)
My workshop is a mess junk everywhere, I can’t throw anything away.
Ouch. Did you use a chip extractor?
LOL
Long hair + electronics = DANGER.
I have styled my fringe with the soldering iron more than once…
I can relate to that one, stepped on a rusty 40 pin something once, the pain was bad but the itching for days was worse.
I hate the smell of burning hair pretty badly, but scrubbing the burned-in hair off the soldering iron is even worse.
Use lot’s of flux ;)
On the iron or on my hair? :P
I suppose it might work as hair gel…
Never had a component forced in my skin ;-)
Burn marks on the other hand:
– electrostatic discharge from iron tip to index finger left a hole, in my skin that is;
– burned index finger on iron while trying to keep it steady (yep, very stupid);
– shape of DIP burned into middle finger (including pin 1 indicator) as a result of checking whether or not it was running hot;
– burned of the hairs of my right forearm as a result of a jet flame after throwing a lit match in an empty PVC glue bottle. Oh wait this is of topic :-)
One time, I was staring so intently at the circuit that I didn’t look at what I was doing as I passed the soldering iron from one hand to the other. Unfortunately, the habit of holding a pencil was so ingrained that I gripped the hot iron like a #2 pencil. I actually heard the skin burning before I felt it. Yikes! The worst thing was that holding a pencil was not very comfortable for a long time.
P.S. Sorry for you kiddies who don’t know what a pencil is, since nobody writes by hand any more these days… :-)
Hi rsdio,
see my finger’s skin is a bit tough to burn for the soldering iron. :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUqwVTKRbQQ
Hey Ian, I see that the soldering flux I sended arrived well. I hope you liked it.
Which flux might that be (my magnifier isn’t big enough to read that), and more importantly, where can I get it ? :)
Here you have more information:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2302
our hackerspaces vacuum cleaner probably has about $500 in parts inside it. We were thinking of a competition that involved making the coolest things out of whatever you could find on the floor.
is that a little drill press for PCBs? what sort is it?
It’s a Proxxon TBM115/TBM220 drill press. Read about it here:
http://hackaday.com/2009/02/27/tools-proxxon-drill-press-tbm115tbm220/
I’m sure, if Ian sees my desk, he’ll recognize it as dumpster.
It is the perfect drill press for PCBs :)