pic: PSA: Watch your metal shavings

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by JVN

We shipped about 4000 Victors in the kit this year. I wonder how many of those were burnt out by teams. 1% = 40? Less?

I think everyone will agree it's a very robust product.
Now would you rather pay more for every victor, for protection to solve a non-issue, or would you rather lay down a towel?

-JV

I'd imagine that the number of Victors that release the magic smoke for one reason or another is in the lower hundreds. Every team has that moment of foolishness, that moment of "Eh, surely we can't blow a Victor doing this..."

That said, the cheap option remains to find a towel/box/big piece of bubble wrap for the purpose. (I think it'd be kinda awesome to have an aftermarket cover that fits over the Victor and around the wires for these kinds of fabrication events. Then again, that may just be me.)