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I just burnt my finger on a soldering iron while connecting pc sockets to my remote flash triggers - ouch!:bang:

It's blistered nicely and hurts rather a lot and I'm not sure I'll be able to get to sleep. We'll see...
 
Oh yes, I remember my nicely blistered hands from my days of extensive soldering :D
You're making me want to get my iron out and fix something!
 
It is quite addictive. I've just ordered a replacement hotshoe for my vivitar 285, I think more for the reason that I will have something else to solder than really needing it fixed - I have 3 other flashes that work perfectly fine.

I'm not very good at soldering but I enjoy it and it's good enough to do the job.
 
It's the smell of the flux, man! It's addictive!:D
 
flux + wd40 is a classy combination I can recommend. Possibly combine that with the unique smell SU carbs make in British classic cars, mmmmmmm.......

In other news, the burn healed remarkably well overnight to bely the rather errr, painful, pain it was giving me earlier in the night. I might even get a good scar out of it that I can make up a more exciting story than 'I burnt it on a soldering iron' about.
 
depending on the shape & size of the possible scar tell people you got it in a swordfight.
 
With this guy

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`nothing I like better in the mornings than the smell of burning flesh' lol

ask me why all my jeans have solder and burn marks down the outside right leg seam hee hee.
 
PLEASE!

Soldering is for girls. :razz:
When I fire up the Plasma cutter and the dross from a bit of 1/2 inch steel plate drips into your boot you'll know about burning flesh. :eek:
Or when the shower of welding splatter goes in the neck of your overalls and singes the hair all the way down to your boxers...and beyond if you aren't lucky! :gag:

Aahh! Sitting here at my desk in this air conditioned office, looking at the sunshine reflecting off the pleasure boats out of the window, sipping a Cappuccino and eating grapes....I really miss my days of standing underneath a rusty Dagenham dustbin, trying to weld patches on faster than the damn thing is dissolving. :D NOT!
 
Plasma cutter? You were lucky!

When I were a lad our father would wake us up at 2am, 3 hours before we went to sleep, and send us to work down the fiery pits of hades. We had to work 27 hours a day, week in, week out in constant agony from the flames licking against our naked flesh, and pay the devil for permission to suffer. And when we got home at night our father would weld us to sleep with his oxyacetylene torch.

And you try telling that to the youth of today, they won't believe you, they won't!
 
You bloody fumies - less sniffing and more working!!!!!!! :bat:
 
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