The 5 Wounds of the Tech Stude 
2003 Reader Submission
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I forget the exact day this happened, but it was an after school session where we could all work on our woodwork or electronics projects.
I was happily working on my GCSE project, and my friend Fuzzy (as we all call him) was working on his project.
I needed the glue gun. The one next to me was plugged in, but switched off (D'oh!) so, i asked fuzzy on the other bench if his was hot. Well, how was i suposed to know he was that stupid? i thought he would just know if it was hot. i didnt think hed squirt some on his hand did i? well, maybe i did. he isnt brain of brittain.
15 mintues later he carries on working. with a rather badly burned left palm. you see, gluegun glue is very hot and very sticky (other wise it wouldnt be much good), leaving very nasty burns. this was number one.
next, hes trying to solder (god help us all).
and hes trying to use a centimeter long piece of solder. im just about to point out what might happen, when it does. he slips and burns his hand AGAIN! (#2) but it gets worse. first thing he does is stick his hand in his mouth and swallow the solder (60% lead, 40% tin mix with flux). oooohhhh dear. theres #3. but wait. theres more.
while his left hand is working on poisoning him, his right hand is putting down the soldering iron. and not in its rack. after he returns from the sink, he picks up a soldering iron to carry on. shame he doesnt pick up the one he was using before.
five minutes later...*sniff sniff* fuzzy, do you smell melting plastic?
yeah.....wonder where its coming from...
it was coming from his sleeve. which he had rested on the soldering iron he put down before.
unfortunately before we noticed this, his blazer & shirt had melted through, and now he had molten plastic on his arm. (#4). needless to say, he moves his arm rather fast. unfortunately the soldering iron starts moving too. it fell off the table.
it quickly ran out of flex and swang.....
it landed somewhere NO soldering iron should go....
and as of yet he hasnt managed to reporduce...
*note* i must add that the soldering irons we were using were very cheap industrial ones desinged for use on copper track, not PCBS. they had tips about 1-1.5cm across, and got VERY VERY hot.
Submitted on 06/24/2002
Submitted by:
Simon Neill
Reference:
1998, early May
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