[sdiy] Resisting UberDIY (More soldering)

[harrybissell]

Has a similar event... it was a 50KHz bias oscillator in a tube based
tape deck... I was touching one pin on the board (amplitude was about 150V)
so I didn't feel any shock... but I smelled flesh burning, and moved my hand
to
fine a neat hole drilled deep into my finger...
... which took foreber to heal (being a burn, not a cut)

H^) harry

"Scott Evans, Gen Mgr" wrote:

> Years ago, I had an injury that damaged many of the nerve receptors in
> my left hand. Still functions, mostly, but it feels "asleep" most of the
> time and I have very little "Heat Sense".
>
> I was working a production line as a lead test technician for a
> microwave communications company. As I was looking over a circuit, I
> wondered "What's that foul smell?" I looked down, and it was ME! I had
> inadvertently laid my little finger against the iron a could not feel
> it. After 15 minutes under cold water, and a lot of ointment, it came
> out OK. After 30 years, most of the mark has disappeared, but I'll never
> forget that realization: "It's ME!" :)
>
> Scott
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Barry Klein wrote:
> >
> > > I use a scrubbrush cut in half, mounted to a goofy bracket that lets
> >
> > >you
> > >swipe the tip between them for instant clean.
> >
> > Some of us oldtimers just flick our index finger across the tip to
> > clean it....
> >
> > Barry