[sdiy] Why you should wear shoes while stuffing pcbs

[Bob Weigel]

On 3/22/2011 6:51 PM, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> Doug Terrebonne<dougt55 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Ouch. Who here hasn't stepped on a DIP IC that was legs up?
>>
>> Doug
>>      
> Heh, there are only two kinds of DIYers, those who've stepped barefoot on a DIP
> IC and those that will...
>    

Nay... for I have learned many other lessons which hath quickened me to 
know such things...like getting them in the fingernail when trying to 
remove a stubborn one by hand...

I seriously think my most picturesque moment though was when I dropped 
some screw on my floor in my old place and was looking for it..and I 
managed to hook my soldering iron cord.

The iron stabbed my right hand..I can barely still see it between the 
thumb and first finger.  I yelped and flipped it out of my hand in the 
shadows there... only to have it pendulum right back and burn me even 
worse in the side of the hand as I'm screaming bloody murder..