12 Sep
2011
12 Sep
'11
12:08 a.m.
On 12/09/2011 01:22, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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.
Many decades ago, when I worked in a secondary school (that's a high
school to transpondians), we had soldering irons with a hook to hang
them onto a rail or the edge of a bench. Business end uppermost. I had
a nice Henley Solon iron with a stainless steel shaft, and one day a
young lady called Lorna wandered in to continue some project work.
"Oh," she said, "what pretty colours" and before anyone could stop
her,
picked it up by the pretty coloured end. She let it go rather quickly.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York