[sdiy] Dumbest Mistakes with Synths Contest Anyone?

[Ingo Debus]

Am 04.08.2006 um 19:47 schrieb Dave Kendall:

> 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......

Ouch! Reminds me to get safety goggles. I wear glasses, but I often  
put them off for soldering work.

Do you remember what kind of leadfree solder this was? The stuff I  
tried so far just solders fine with my trusty old WTCP soldering iron  
and a 7 tip, like conventional leaded solder.

Ingo