Splattering solder into eye?

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:28:55 -0000, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

Not bad, you may just loose your eye. WEAR SAFTY GLASSES!

It's hard to believe, but I'm actually seeing the English language's
pronunciation and spelling change. For example, Americans are starting to
adopt the British pronunciations of certain words, principally by changing
the stressed syllable.

I also notice that many people have decided that "lose" is spelled "loose".

Though "lose" and "loose" are related words, they have distinct meanings.
No they haven't. They just write the wrong one.

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SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
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the door pulling it shut behind him.
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another sign:
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:58:04 +0100, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

Do the eyelids not automatically close?

Yes -- right on the piece of solder.
Your reactions aren't up to scratch then. They're supposed to close while the solder is flying towards you.

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:27:03 -0000, Matt J. McCullar <mccullar@flash.net> wrote:

I've never heard of any accidents or serious injuries resulting from stuff
hitting a cyclist's eyes.


It happens. Some states have laws for motorcyclists
MOTORcyclists travel faster.

requiring them to wear
eye protection while riding. I've worn eyeglasses for many years, so I've
never had anything hit me in the eye while riding a bicycle. But when it
does, it's going to be at the worst possible time.

Once I was leaning over the back of an open television set to squirt some
tuner cleaner into it. Somehow that spray liquid shot back out through
another hole in the mechanical tuner and managed to crawl over my glasses
and hit me right smack in the eye. Yeah, it stung a little, but I did
manage to wash it all out right away.

Solder joints are mysterious creatures. One that looks perfectly normal can
literally explode when touched by a soldering iron. I sure wouldn't want a
piece of hot solder, no matter how small, to hit me in MY eye. Stick a
soldering iron into a head of lettuce if you want to know what it sounds
like.
I'm not even going to consider how you might accidentally throw the soldering IRON into your eye!

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Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?"
The only people I hear using that language are teenagers.
 
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:43:05 -0000, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

"WW" <ccco@bresnan.net> wrote in message
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"William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Not bad, you may just loose your eye. WEAR SAFTY GLASSES!

It's hard to believe, but I'm actually seeing the English language's
pronunciation and spelling change. For example, Americans are starting
to
adopt the British pronunciations of certain words, principally by
changing
the stressed syllable.

I also notice that many people have decided that "lose" is spelled
"loose".

Though "lose" and "loose" are related words, they have distinct
meanings.

William... I held the O button too long. Should read what I type before
sending.
I wondered who would catch this. WW

I suspect it's mostly typos. But I've been seeing it very often for the past
year or so.
More reliance on spell checkers? I hate spell checkers. I just re-read what I wrote before sending, I find it quicker too.

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If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
 
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:35:29 -0000, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

No they haven't. They just write the wrong one.

"It wasn't a misspelling -- it was a typo!"
Please, typographical error.

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A waiter brings the customer the steak he ordered with his thumb over the meat.
"Are you crazy?" yelled the customer, "with your hand on my steak?"
"What" answers the waiter, "You want it to fall on the floor again?"
 
More reliance on spell checkers? I hate spell checkers.
I just re-read what I wrote before sending, I find it quicker too.
Spell checkers will catch stuff that you miss. Really.
 
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:57:30 +0100, "Peter Hucker"
<none@spam.com>wrote:

Has anyone ever actually been unlucky enough to get solder splattering into their eye? I've had it hit my leg, hand, and face, but never in my eye. How bad is it?
What's wrong, trolling a little slow in alt.usenet.kooks?

idiotic cross post line snecked

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sci.electronics.repair,sci.electronics.basic,sci.electronics.basics,
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Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:58:04 +0100, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:


Do the eyelids not automatically close?

Yes -- right on the piece of solder.


Your reactions aren't up to scratch then. They're supposed to close while the solder is flying towards you.
How do you figure that, without knowing the velocity
of the solder - or even whether one sees and reacts to
it?

And, as to the idea you posted that a bicycle rider can close
his eyelids fast enough - ridiculous. Even an occasional
rider can easily hit 40 mph or more downhill, the object
can be launched from a car's tire at high speed, a bug
may come from the side etc.

You have no way of knowing whether his - or your - reactions
are fast enough for the eyelids to protect from solder splatter
or airborne objects/bugs/whatever while bicycle riding, because
you don't have any data on the speed at which the object
approaches the eye or the distance it must travel or even
whether the conditions allow the eye to detect the approaching
object. Sheesh! Even people walking have gotten stuff in their
eyes, blown by a gust of wind or whatever.

Ed
 
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Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:58:04 +0100, William Sommerwerck
grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:


Do the eyelids not automatically close?

Yes -- right on the piece of solder.


Your reactions aren't up to scratch then. They're supposed to close
while the solder is flying towards you.


How do you figure that, without knowing the velocity
of the solder - or even whether one sees and reacts to
it?

And, as to the idea you posted that a bicycle rider can close
his eyelids fast enough - ridiculous. Even an occasional
rider can easily hit 40 mph or more downhill, the object
can be launched from a car's tire at high speed, a bug
may come from the side etc.

You have no way of knowing whether his - or your - reactions
are fast enough for the eyelids to protect from solder splatter
or airborne objects/bugs/whatever while bicycle riding, because
you don't have any data on the speed at which the object
approaches the eye or the distance it must travel or even
whether the conditions allow the eye to detect the approaching
object. Sheesh! Even people walking have gotten stuff in their
eyes, blown by a gust of wind or whatever.
Methinks we may be dealing with a troll here, but eye protection while
operating a vehicle, whether motorized or not, is important for maintaining
control as well as protection from eye injury. The eye rapidly repairs
corneal abrasions, and I have heard that it is the fastest-healing part of
the body. Here is an interesting link:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_1_70/ai_n6159408

You are probably going to be injured much more seriously by losing control
of your vehicle, rather than the direct result of a foreign object hitting
the eye. It may be unlikely that both eyes would be compromised at the same
time, but it could happen.

If you get steel slivers in your eye, you can use an eye magnet:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/01/800lb_magnet_tr.html

And, your government grant dollars at work:
http://www.1ad.army.mil/Safety/Vision%20Conservation%20Program/EYE%20PROTECTION.pdf

More on eye safety:
http://www.eyehealthillinois.org/eyesafety/index.html

Paul
 
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:31:38 -0400, "Paul E. Schoen"
<pstech@smart.net>wrote:

Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:58:04 +0100, William Sommerwerck
grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:


Do the eyelids not automatically close?

Yes -- right on the piece of solder.


Your reactions aren't up to scratch then. They're supposed to close
while the solder is flying towards you.


How do you figure that, without knowing the velocity
of the solder - or even whether one sees and reacts to
it?

And, as to the idea you posted that a bicycle rider can close
his eyelids fast enough - ridiculous. Even an occasional
rider can easily hit 40 mph or more downhill, the object
can be launched from a car's tire at high speed, a bug
may come from the side etc.

You have no way of knowing whether his - or your - reactions
are fast enough for the eyelids to protect from solder splatter
or airborne objects/bugs/whatever while bicycle riding, because
you don't have any data on the speed at which the object
approaches the eye or the distance it must travel or even
whether the conditions allow the eye to detect the approaching
object. Sheesh! Even people walking have gotten stuff in their
eyes, blown by a gust of wind or whatever.

Methinks we may be dealing with a troll here,
CHA CHING!!!

Peter Hucker, one of Usenet's most prolific trolls.

Nothing wrong with a little trolling under the right circumstances but
Peter takes it to the extreme.
 
"Claude Hopper" <boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote in message
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Not bad, you may just loose your eye. WEAR SAFTY GLASSES!


No but I used to get the smoke from frying rosin in my eye when I used
to build short wave radios many years ago. Burns like nothing else.

Safety glasses don't help for that.
That's why we insist our students wear safety goggles when soldering..
 
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:31:38 -0400, "Paul E. Schoen"
pstech@smart.net>wrote:

Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:58:04 +0100, William Sommerwerck
grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:


Do the eyelids not automatically close?

Yes -- right on the piece of solder.


Your reactions aren't up to scratch then. They're supposed to close
while the solder is flying towards you.


How do you figure that, without knowing the velocity
of the solder - or even whether one sees and reacts to
it?

And, as to the idea you posted that a bicycle rider can close
his eyelids fast enough - ridiculous. Even an occasional
rider can easily hit 40 mph or more downhill, the object
can be launched from a car's tire at high speed, a bug
may come from the side etc.

You have no way of knowing whether his - or your - reactions
are fast enough for the eyelids to protect from solder splatter
or airborne objects/bugs/whatever while bicycle riding, because
you don't have any data on the speed at which the object
approaches the eye or the distance it must travel or even
whether the conditions allow the eye to detect the approaching
object. Sheesh! Even people walking have gotten stuff in their
eyes, blown by a gust of wind or whatever.

Methinks we may be dealing with a troll here,

CHA CHING!!!

Peter Hucker, one of Usenet's most prolific trolls.
PHucker spends most of his time on alt.binaries.chatter - his favourite
topic is bragging that he goes about his life without regard for rules or
laws, he seems to have branched out into net-kopping on the sci groups
lately.
 
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:24:47 -0000, Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net> wrote:

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:57:30 +0100, "Peter Hucker"
none@spam.com>wrote:

Has anyone ever actually been unlucky enough to get solder splattering into their eye? I've had it hit my leg, hand, and face, but never in my eye. How bad is it?

What's wrong, trolling a little slow in alt.usenet.kooks?
I do not subscribe to that group.

idiotic cross post line snecked

alt.electronics,comp.sci.electronics,news.electronics.basics,
sci.electronics.repair,sci.electronics.basic,sci.electronics.basics,
sci.electronics.misc,news.electronics.repair,rec.electronics,sci.electronics
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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The drunk replied, "'Cause you're ugly."
 
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:56:50 -0000, Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net> wrote:

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:31:38 -0400, "Paul E. Schoen"
pstech@smart.net>wrote:

Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:58:04 +0100, William Sommerwerck
grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:


Do the eyelids not automatically close?

Yes -- right on the piece of solder.


Your reactions aren't up to scratch then. They're supposed to close
while the solder is flying towards you.


How do you figure that, without knowing the velocity
of the solder - or even whether one sees and reacts to
it?

And, as to the idea you posted that a bicycle rider can close
his eyelids fast enough - ridiculous. Even an occasional
rider can easily hit 40 mph or more downhill, the object
can be launched from a car's tire at high speed, a bug
may come from the side etc.

You have no way of knowing whether his - or your - reactions
are fast enough for the eyelids to protect from solder splatter
or airborne objects/bugs/whatever while bicycle riding, because
you don't have any data on the speed at which the object
approaches the eye or the distance it must travel or even
whether the conditions allow the eye to detect the approaching
object. Sheesh! Even people walking have gotten stuff in their
eyes, blown by a gust of wind or whatever.

Methinks we may be dealing with a troll here,

CHA CHING!!!

Peter Hucker, one of Usenet's most prolific trolls.

Nothing wrong with a little trolling under the right circumstances but
Peter takes it to the extreme.
I asked a simple question. Is asking a question now considered troling?

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:52:14 -0000, ehsjr <ehsjr@NOSPAMverizon.net> wrote:

Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:58:04 +0100, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:


Do the eyelids not automatically close?

Yes -- right on the piece of solder.


Your reactions aren't up to scratch then. They're supposed to close while the solder is flying towards you.


How do you figure that, without knowing the velocity
of the solder - or even whether one sees and reacts to
it?
Experience. I've virtually never had anything hit my eyeball. But have often had things hit my closed eye.

And, as to the idea you posted that a bicycle rider can close
his eyelids fast enough - ridiculous. Even an occasional
rider can easily hit 40 mph or more downhill, the object
can be launched from a car's tire at high speed, a bug
may come from the side etc.
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!

You have no way of knowing whether his - or your - reactions
are fast enough for the eyelids to protect from solder splatter
or airborne objects/bugs/whatever while bicycle riding, because
you don't have any data on the speed at which the object
approaches the eye or the distance it must travel or even
whether the conditions allow the eye to detect the approaching
object. Sheesh! Even people walking have gotten stuff in their
eyes, blown by a gust of wind or whatever.
Dust perhaps, but not large enough objects to cause damage.

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"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."
 
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:31:38 -0000, Paul E. Schoen <pstech@smart.net> wrote:

"ehsjr" <ehsjr@NOSPAMverizon.net> wrote in message
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Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:58:04 +0100, William Sommerwerck
grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:


Do the eyelids not automatically close?

Yes -- right on the piece of solder.


Your reactions aren't up to scratch then. They're supposed to close
while the solder is flying towards you.


How do you figure that, without knowing the velocity
of the solder - or even whether one sees and reacts to
it?

And, as to the idea you posted that a bicycle rider can close
his eyelids fast enough - ridiculous. Even an occasional
rider can easily hit 40 mph or more downhill, the object
can be launched from a car's tire at high speed, a bug
may come from the side etc.

You have no way of knowing whether his - or your - reactions
are fast enough for the eyelids to protect from solder splatter
or airborne objects/bugs/whatever while bicycle riding, because
you don't have any data on the speed at which the object
approaches the eye or the distance it must travel or even
whether the conditions allow the eye to detect the approaching
object. Sheesh! Even people walking have gotten stuff in their
eyes, blown by a gust of wind or whatever.

Methinks we may be dealing with a troll here, but eye protection while
operating a vehicle, whether motorized or not, is important for maintaining
control as well as protection from eye injury. The eye rapidly repairs
corneal abrasions, and I have heard that it is the fastest-healing part of
the body. Here is an interesting link:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_1_70/ai_n6159408

You are probably going to be injured much more seriously by losing control
of your vehicle, rather than the direct result of a foreign object hitting
the eye. It may be unlikely that both eyes would be compromised at the same
time, but it could happen.

If you get steel slivers in your eye, you can use an eye magnet:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/01/800lb_magnet_tr.html
Now that sounds cool. I take it they make absolutely sure the doctor nurse and patient are not wearing any metallic rings etc first!!!

And, your government grant dollars at work:
http://www.1ad.army.mil/Safety/Vision%20Conservation%20Program/EYE%20PROTECTION.pdf

More on eye safety:
http://www.eyehealthillinois.org/eyesafety/index.html

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:11:16 -0000, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

More reliance on spell checkers? I hate spell checkers.
I just re-read what I wrote before sending, I find it quicker too.

Spell checkers will catch stuff that you miss. Really.
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" <none@spam.com> wrote in message
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Has anyone ever actually been unlucky enough to get solder splattering
into their eye? I've had it hit my leg, hand, and face, but never in my
eye. How bad is it?
Wear glasses. I do.

All of this talk of laser-eye-surgery. Yeah right!! Like I need that.
Doesn't protect your eyes from fast moving projectiles and springs. Mine
have saved me time and time again.
 
"Claude Hopper" <boobooililililil@roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:pqmdneNk9vLh8ZnUnZ2dnUVZ_rLinZ2d@giganews.com...
No but I used to get the smoke from frying rosin in my eye when I used
to build short wave radios many years ago. Burns like nothing else.

Safety glasses don't help for that.

--
Claude Hopper :)

? ? Ľ
Safety glasses don't help with rosin smoke but smoke/fume absorbers do.
Rosin fumes do more than irritate your eyes too. If you are around rosin
smoke on a regular basis, you really should consider getting one. You can
get a Weller WSA350 desktop filter for under $50. Your eyes and lungs will
thank you. I don't do much soldering on a regular basis, but if I had to
wear eye protection daily I'd probably opt for a face shield. The glasses
impede vision too much for me. Besides, it's tough wearing prescription
glasses under safety glasses.

I've burned myself plenty of times with electronics solder and improperly
placed irons, but the worst incident I can remember has to be related to a
tight crawl space and copper water pipe. I got lucky that day and only
managed to burn my lower eyelid a little. I guess in the grand scheme of
things the possibility of burning the house down because I can't see through
the safety glasses outweighs the possibility of losing sight in an eye.

GlenB
www.all-spec.com
 

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