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Originally posted by Andy A.
You mech boys can't have all the fun!
Im amazed no one's posted with some run ins with hot soldering irons. I've had plenty of those... My favorite burn of all time was one that I swear was a picture perfect map of the hawien islands on my hand. You could make it out for weeks afterwords.
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Well, I wasn't exactly burned by a soldering iron, but I have a bunch of soldering iron stories from this year
[NOTE: If you are on Team 293, then do not read the following statement. Please.]
First of all, I had never soldered before. I wanted to test a retro-reflector program I wrote, though, and no one was free to solder the wires on the sensor to a connector. So, I thought I'd teach myself how to solder.
I plugged in the soldering iron and waited a few minutes for it to get hot. The table I was doing this on was messy, however, and there was a major tangle of wires. I
thought that I plugged in the right wire. But I was wrong. Instead, I had plugged in
another soldering iron. It took me about 5 minutes to figure this out, in which time the other soldering iron had blackened a part of the wooden (!) table.
Luckily, nothing caught fire.
And nobody noticed.
Oh, and when I did get it right, I accidentally burned a hole in the sheet that listed what outputs went to what pins in the connector
Somehow, I didn't get burned.