[sdiy] More SBB Comments

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, harrybissell wrote:

> For slow digital circuits (like old TTL) in educational environment, the
> SBB is probably 'ok'. I'd need to keep in mind that many 'newbies' might
> screw themselves worse with soldering irons than with the breadboard.

Speaking of which, I nailed myself with a soldering iron for the first 
time a couple of weeks ago while putting together my MOTM 485...

I simply did something stupid - I did something that you really needed 
three hands for, which I should know better than to try with only two 
hands - I was holding the soldering iron in my right hand, and holding a 
pot onto the board with my thumb and index finger on my left hand, and 
holding the solder with the other fingers on my left hand.

I slipped, got a good inch of the iron across the top of my hand by my 
thumb. Felt like an idiot, I have no idea what possessed me to try that.

Immediately went and ran cold water over it for a while. It didn't 
actually look to bad at first - just some flakey white, and didn't hurt 
much if at all - I mostly couldn't feel it. Maybe the heat obliterated all 
the nerves or something.

Then the next day came, and then the next day. The nerves apparently 
started growing back and then I saw how deep the heat had gotten in such a 
short amount of time...

EWWWWW. OWWWWW.

- Aaron

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