[sdiy] Dumbest Mistakes with Synths Contest Anyone?

[Dave Kendall]

on 4/8/06 15:31, Jason Tribbeck at Jason.Tribbeck at argogroup.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Anyone care to join me in entering a contest for the dumbest
>> things done with synths?

Working on some jack sockets a year or two ago, trying to get some of that
crappy lead free solder to work, gave the iron a frustrated bang on the
bench - a blob flew up and went splat on my eyeball. Hurt like hell.
I'd worked for a while years before with an eye team, and remembered that as
long as it doesn't penetrate you *should* be OK, so a tiny little bit of my
brain was not panicking and trying to be sensible.
The rest of me was jumping up and down and yelling, completely and utterly
freaked out. There was a little silver solder star right in the middle of
the eye. Come to think of it, with hindsight, I would probably have got
several points for style in an ABBA convention.

Another good reason not to use lead free solder......

Dave.