Splattering solder into eye?

their eye? I've had it hit my leg, hand, and face, but never in my eye. How bad is it?

I do not subscribe to that group.

It's called widening the audience so I get a response.

I could have posted the message individually to each of the above groups, but then people subscribed to more than one would have read it more than once.

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A woman was shopping at her local supermarket where she had selected the following items: * A half-gallon of 2% milk * A half carton of eggs * A quart of orange juice * A small head of romaine lettuce * A 2-pound can of coffee * And a 1-pound package of bacon As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed the items in front of the cashier. While the cashier was ringing up her purchases, the drunk calmly stated, "You must be single." The woman was a bit startled by this proclamation, but she was intrigued by the derelict's intuition, since she was indeed single. She looked at her six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about her selections that could have tipped off the drunk to her marital status. Curiosity getting the better of her, she said "Well, you know what, you're absolutely correct. But how on earth did you know that?" The drunk replied, "'Cause you're ugly."

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Peter Hucker
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I asked a simple question. Is asking a question now considered troling?

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Peter Hucker

the solder is flying towards you.

Experience. I've virtually never had anything hit my eyeball. But have often had things hit my closed eye.

Perhaps. But it hasn't happened to me. If a car is overtaking and throwing up stuff, I tend to squint my eyes in advance!

Dust perhaps, but not large enough objects to cause damage.

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It seems a farm boy accidentally overturned his wagon load of corn.   The farmer
who lived nearby heard the noise.
"Hey Willis!!" the farmer yelled. "Forget your troubles. Come in with us.  Then
I\'ll help you get the wagon up."
"That\'s mighty nice of you, " Willis answered, "but I don\'t think Pa would like
me to."
"Aw, come on," the farmer insisted.
"Well okay," the boy finally agreed, and added, "But Pa won\'t like it."
After a hearty dinner, Willis thanked his host. "I feel a lot better now, but I
know Pa is going to be real upset."
"Don\'t be foolish !" the neighbor said with a smile. "By the way, where is he?"
"Under the wagon."
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Peter Hucker

I have not observed this. Certainly they miss loads of things that I'd spot. As in words mistyped as other legitimate words.

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Peter Hucker

I've had microscopic specs of solder splash in my eyes a few times. At least, I THINK they were solder, they felt different than having flux get in my eyes. If the spec is small enough, the film of water on your eye cools id down pretty quickly. I may worry less about this than some others as I wear eyeglasses all the time and they have wide enough leses as to shield my eyes fairly well.

I would ALWAYS wear some kind of protection when doing this kind of work.

Jon

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Jon Elson

Mpfffff.... very late on this.

Back in the day, I did a lot of 50' target shooting and was captain of my s chool's rifle team - state champs several years running. BUT, that meant a goodly number of hours on the range, and at least several hundred rounds of .22 match per week. Yes, we used very good traps, and excellent range-safe ty procedures. BUT, every so often there would be splatter. I have always w orn corrective lenses, and never worn contacts, so the splatter would bounc e off my glasses with no harm done. Were the vain type, I am sure I would h ave experienced some pain, if not actual damage. NOTE: the others on the te am, as it happens, also wore corrective lenses, our best shot wore what the n were considered to be "Coke Bottle" lenses. We also used iron sights, not scopes.

Then, my first job out of college was as a machinist. Same issue. Seldom di d things go "POP" on the lathe, but the lessons when they did were clear an d emphatic. Wear Protective Eye Gear.

Dabbling in vintage radios, power tools, activities of daily life, I cannot tell how many times my vision has been at least protected if not saved by my glasses. And I have learned to wear gloves and ear protection over the y ears as well - so I still have excellent hearing and all my digits even at my advanced age. Oh, and putting the spare tire or bad tire under the car w hen changing the a tire - so if the jack fails the car comes down on the ti re and rim, not a hand, foot or worse.

Guys and gals, this is not a debate. This is a matter of life-safety. I wou ld rather be overly cautious and look silly than be 'brave' and be damaged.

By the way, my lenses are progressive high-index, UV coated, scratch-resist ant plastic. They last me, on average, about 2 years.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

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