MOTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozbcsoxK8jU

WARNING NOT SAFE FOR WORK LANGUAGE!!!

Paul S.

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozbcsoxK8jU
>
> WARNING NOT SAFE FOR WORK LANGUAGE!!!

That goes right along with "Never solder in the nude."

-->Neil

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C. Neil Bradley - KE7IXP - The one eyed man in the land of the blind is not
                            king. He's a prisoner.

Years ago, in the days of laying out PCBs with little rolls of rubber
tape, I dropped the tool of choice for this task, an Xacto knife. It
stuck, straight up, into the meat of my big toe!

(The universe collectively cringes......)

No video, but there was language!

Not much blood. Yanked it out and kept on taping.

Best Holiday Wishes, everyone!
-- 
John Blacet

> Years ago, in the days of laying out PCBs with little rolls of rubber
> tape, I dropped the tool of choice for this task, an Xacto knife. It
> stuck, straight up, into the meat of my big toe!
>

I bigger yell was heard at Tandy in 1981, where I saw a noobie engineer try 
to put a 4:1 Bishop taped layout (it was on D size gridded Mylar) into the 
*blueprint machine* to make a copy. The ammonia made the tape delaminate off 
the mylar onto the pinch rollers. We lost the layout (it was for a 
stand-alone print spooler....remember those?) and the blueprint machine cost 
$3000 to fix it.

Paul S.

> bigger yell was heard at Tandy in 1981 ...

Ouch...

One of our guys at the machine shop was learning how to program a CNC
mill...  Had the axes switched and the signs on his coordinates messed
up, and he clamped in the part, pressed start and walked away without
checking...  Need I say more?

Doug

http://www.analognotes.com

Ah, yes, many of us have probably felt that, though I'm lucky to never 
had one that.... integrated : )

Scott Deyo
The Bridechamber
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On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozbcsoxK8jU

It probably wasn't RoHS, so he was smart to let it bleed out a little bit  
;).   -Karl. (stepped onto, or into more than one thing in my  time).



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I stepped on one row of pins of one of those UV EEPROM's once. Even the 
"square" section of the pins went into my flesh. That was fun trying to 
pull out since some of the pins were bent.

One of the most painful things I've ever done: Back in my intern
days, I worked on embedded systems that used a lot of UV-erasable
EPROMs.  We always put a label over the window after burning them,
with the software build number, the socket number, and the date.
During development, we frequently re-used them.  That meant
scraping the labels off the windows, a bitch of a job and the perfect
thing to assign to an intern.  We used alcohol and Xacto knives to
do that.  Usually, we put them in a fixture to hold them down, but one
day I was in a hurry and I tried to scrape one while I held the EPROM
in my hand.  I scraped towards my thumb and...