[sdiy] Why you should wear shoes while stuffing pcbs

[David Griffith]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Julian wrote:

>> I once stepped on an IC barefoot. it went into the callous on the heel. I 
>> got to sit there and pull it out with a pair of pliers because everyone was 
>> too busy laughing to help. 
>
> Reminds me of playing with a stapler when i was a kid.  My memory certainly 
> has my mother having to get her nail between the staple, and the pad of my 
> thumb.... : /

I remember that happening when I was in junior high school.  I warned the 
kid what would happen and he stapled his fingers together a few seconds 
later.

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David Griffith
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