This just in: Soldering Irons are Hot. I burnt my finger :(

[Fenixgoon]

I was trying to fix a laptop for my sister's boyfriend. As it turned out, the wires connected to the power button were broken (my guess is poor design and restricted wire movement led to fatigue failure) and the male/female pin connectors on the wires and motherboard were missing.

I soldered the wires back onto the mobo, so it'll start up if you jump two contacts with a screwdriver (two wires, but 4 contact points total for the power circuit from what I can tell).

I burnt my finger while soldering and it still hurts! Got a nice battle scar to prove it

At least the laptop semi-works now!

 

[iGas]

 

[Red Squirrel]

Once we were playing with a soldering iron at camp, engraving stuff in wood and such, my cousin had never used one before so he decided to try it out, not realizing that the metal part also gets hot, not just the tip. Ouch!

Sometimes when I'm soldering and I can't seem to get the solder to stick, I just say "Screw it!" and push the liquid solder with my finger to make it stick. It's something I'll only do once in a single soldering session.

 

[AlienCraft]

Once while doing a repair at a client's house. I was soldering on an end table over carpet. The iron slipped backwards out of the stand and I grabbed it in one motion before it reached the floor.
Had the heating element and tip between my middle finger and the two adjacent ones. Nice burnt stripe on the tops of two fingers and the bottom of the middle.
No burnt carpet, but a lingering smell of burning flesh.

 

[IronWing]

I was wiring up car batteries as a power supply for a remote radio repeater. The batteries being replaced were solar batteries which, for reasons only known to the gods, have a different terminal type than car batteries. So I ended up having to use baling wire instead of battery cables to make the connections. While wrapping the wire around the terminals I inadvertently crossed the streams, I mean allowed the wires to short between the terminals. The wire I was holding in my fingers instantly glowed red, heading to orange. That hurt. And also left scars across three fingers and two thumbs. Yes, it was snowing at the time, which gave me a place to cool my fingers.

 

[Kyle]

In other breaking news...the heating elements in ovens are hot too!
Hand slipped off the pan and hit the top heating element- didn't really hurt, but had a nice white ashy line accross the top of my hand. It hurt like a bitch about 10 mins later. I also have a nice scar from that, 6 months later.

 

[KK]

maybe you should get that soldering iron they show on those infomercials. you know the one that doesn't get hot.

 

[Howard]

maybe you should get that soldering iron they show on those infomercials. you know the one that doesn't get hot.

but it sucks

 

[lxskllr]

I was always good for burning my forehead. I'd lean in really close to see what I was doing, and hit my head with the iron :^/

 

[Analog]

 

[Shawn]

I dropped one on my leg before. Hurt like hell and left a pretty large scar.

 

[bobdole369]

Try getting an RF burn. You don't even see it on the surface, but it hurts for a week.

 

[eldorado99]

I shorted a car battery once too while holding the wire, it burned a deep groove into my fingers.

 

[lxskllr]

I shorted a car battery once too while holding the wire, it burned a deep groove into my fingers.

For one of my stupid human tricks, I jump started a car with pieces of rebar. I didn't burn myself though :^D

 

[BoomerD]

Once while doing a repair at a client's house. I was soldering on an end table over carpet. The iron slipped backwards out of the stand and I grabbed it in one motion before it reached the floor.
Had the heating element and tip between my middle finger and the two adjacent ones. Nice burnt stripe on the tops of two fingers and the bottom of the middle.
No burnt carpet, but a lingering smell of burning flesh.

Nice to see I'm not the only stupid person...

I dropped a Weller pistol-type soldering iron once. This was back when those fuckers were spendy...rather than let it fall to the floor and break, I caught it...by the metal part with the tip almost dead-center in my palm.
Sum-bitch hurt for days...and left a nice blister all the way to the edge of my palm.

 

[Hyperlite]

i was soldering up a couple 1W LED's for a desk lamp over the summer, i was sitting on the concrete patio outside the house. I laid the iron down on the concrete, and was fiddling with some wires...i didn't think about it, and put my hand down beside me to get up. TSSSSSSSSSS. burned the daylights out of my middle and ring fingers. The pain was almost unbearable for about 48 hours...i had to keep cutting off the blood flow. Ended up with two blisters-for-finger-pads.

 

[BoomerD]

I was welding on the swing frame of a D-9 dozer when I was a new apprentice. I reached over to pick up my chipping hammer and laid my arm across a big patch of fresh weld...burned into the meat. Fortunately, it was about -20 and lots of snow to cool the burn.
I put some ointment on it, some gauze and tape, and went back to work.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Once while doing a repair at a client's house. I was soldering on an end table over carpet. The iron slipped backwards out of the stand and I grabbed it in one motion before it reached the floor.
Had the heating element and tip between my middle finger and the two adjacent ones. Nice burnt stripe on the tops of two fingers and the bottom of the middle.
No burnt carpet, but a lingering smell of burning flesh.

I also caught a dropped iron. Once.

 

[Rubycon]

Try getting an RF burn. You don't even see it on the surface, but it hurts for a week.

500W of fat collimated 10.6µ will do you nicely too!

I was welding on the swing frame of a D-9 dozer when I was a new apprentice. I reached over to pick up my chipping hammer and laid my arm across a big patch of fresh weld...burned into the meat. Fortunately, it was about -20 and lots of snow to cool the burn.
I put some ointment on it, some gauze and tape, and went back to work.

Or the jerks that lay their (electrode) stubs down and walk away. They stay (burning) hot for a while and the cardinal rule applies - hot metal looks like cold metal.

p.s. I didn't realize the D9 was in production that long!

 

[Leros]

I've burned myself with a soldering iron twice now. Left a nice burned flesh small. No pain though. I think my iron is so hot it must burn the nerves off.

 

[BoomerD]

500W of fat collimated 10.6µ will do you nicely too!



Or the jerks that lay their (electrode) stubs down and walk away. They stay (burning) hot for a while and the cardinal rule applies - hot metal looks like cold metal.

p.s. I didn't realize the D9 was in production that long!

shush up little girl...:biggrin: