To this day, I have memories of picking up an American
Beauty 100W
iron by the business end. The burns took like what seemed forever to
heal.
I remmmebr when I was at school I was using a cheap Antex iron to
assmble smme bit of ciruciry and somebody tripped over the mains lead to
the iron. This pulled said iron through my hand, and I ended up holding
it by the metal shaft. Of course I dropped it as soon as I realised, but
I had blisters for some time afterwards...
Still, doing said electronics was infinitely prefereabl to what almost
all the other kids were doing at the time (namely various forms of
sport/exercise).
-tony