On 16/05/10 19:39, Tony Duell wrote:
Ouch. I can still just see the burn on the back of my
hand where I
dropped solder on it<mumble> years ago...
I've got one on my right arm from leaning over the hot end of a hot-air
soldering station while it was 'live'. The display read "COOLING: 40 C,
but it turns out that was the setpoint, not the current temperature. Hot
air burns HURT LIKE HELL. Didn't look like much at the time, but 9
months down the line I still have the scars.
Then there's the mark on the back of my right hand from where the
tinsnips fell off the hook above the door as I was leaving the shed.
That almost completely umbed my hand for a good hour or two...
I've also done "picking up the soldering iron from the wrong end", and
I've had one or two mains plugs with duff screw inserts -- the entire
back of one of the plugs shattered when I tried to unplug it, allowing
the palm of my hand to form a very nice low-resistance path over the
phase and neutral lines. Bzzzzzkt! One of the many things neither a
13-amp plug fuse or an RCD (RCCB) circuit breaker will protect you from.
--
Phil.
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http://www.philpem.me.uk/