[sdiy] Good news -- the ICM7556 dual timer made it!

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 03:27 pm, Rainer Buchty wrote:
> >Neither is the one about picking your nose with a hot iron...
>
> Uh... Reminds me of my father. For doing "real" soldering work (like
> standing on the roof and wiring the 70cm amplifier to the anteanna) he
> used some 100W monster -- and to check whether it's hot already, he held
> it a couple of cm away from his upper lip to feel the heat.
>
> Well. One day he stumbled when doing that...
>
> ...and kissed it.

Ouch...

When I took "Radio-TV Shop" in high school we used 100W irons.  But that was 
nothing compared to the unit that my grandfather had,  the "tip" was a 
_pound_ of copper,  connected by over a foot of iron pipe to a wooden handle.  
You'd heat that thing up in a charcoal brazier,  and then stick the tip into 
a block of ammonium chloride "flux" to solder something.