My worst run-in with a soldering iron was when I was doing some
work at my father's emergency-lighting plant *man* years ago.
They used real industrial strength soldering irons (the metal
body was about 1" diameter and the tip was a 4-sided point which
was easily about 1/4" diameter).
Well, I had placed the iron in its holder, and was reaching for
something else when I caught the cord and the iron started to
fall... my instinctual reaction was to reach out and grab for
it, which I did... grabbing it firmly with my hand... quickly
turning most of my palm and the anterior surface of all my
fingers and thumb into seared tissue...
I never did that again...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 23:29:20 GMT