Just incase someone fancies a grin at my expense - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Dataforensics
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 11, 2012, 07:24:47 pm
content: I should have tidied up more after a repair involving ttl logic.I walk around my house mostly wearing only socks on my feet.Storing a 14pin chip in the sole of ones foot is not the best way.Pulling it out was not fun.Tony

author: shebu18
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2012, 07:28:25 pm
content: 8 pin micro stuck in my finger, not funny. I wasn't talking in 0's and 1's.

author: tekfan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2012, 07:34:06 pm
content: I once had a radial electrolytic capacitor standing with its leads up on the bench. I reached for it but missed and got the leads all the way up under my fingernail. Strangely not very much blood.

author: hacklordsniper
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2012, 08:31:16 pm
content: Quote from: tekfan on January 11, 2012, 07:34:06 pmThere is not much blood but if it enters below your fingernail it hurts more than giving birth

author: wkb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2012, 08:50:51 pm
content: Quote from: hacklordsniper on January 11, 2012, 08:31:16 pmHave you tried that, giving birth?My most 'fun' experience was probing the temperature of some TTL DIL IC (I think) that was reversed in its socket. The part# was burned in my finger for at least a week

author: Short Circuit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2012, 09:18:45 pm
content: Had a couple of tantalums exploding almost in my face a few years back; board with a short circuit between 24V and 5V rail.Luckily no injuries, only nasty burnholes in the benchmat and the floor. Don't think a plug of burning tantallum on skin or eyes would have given much joy...

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2012, 09:25:04 pm
content: A zener burnt, voltage on the electrolytic capacitor in parallel increased, capacitor exploded and the case hit my eye.Human nature is so amazing, my eyelid closed automatically I only had damage on the skin ( some blood coming ) and a horrible headache and blurry vision for like two weeks.Good thing it was a small 22 uF capacitor, I won't have an eye if the cap would be like 4700uF.Bad design on that circuit I was troubleshooting like 20 years ago.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2012, 09:36:43 pm
content: We used to use solid slug wet tants as a home made gun - apply 28V in reverse and wait 2 seconds then bang.Once was looking at the plasma globe while eating grapes, and thought how cool it was that the discharge would come to the stalk if it was near the globe. Put the stalk on top and let go, brought finger close to stalk and a small discharge between stalk and my finger. Felt nothing until i smelt crispy, and there was a hole burnt into my finger tip, smelt bad for hours, and hurt for a week or two until it healed.After that a lot more careful. Now that I have some neon transformers i am a lot more wary of the belt they can give. Connected one across a dead linear halogen and it lit up brightly and got hot really fast.

author: sonicj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2012, 02:33:09 am
content: i wedged one of those nice, thick gold plated header pins under my fingernail once. incredibly uncomfortable!-sj

author: slateraptor
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2012, 05:19:25 am
content: Quote from: tekfan on January 11, 2012, 07:34:06 pmThat honest to goodness made me cringe. OUCH!No notable mishaps for me...yet. *knock on wood*

author: hacklordsniper
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2012, 07:47:53 am
content: Quote from: wkb on January 11, 2012, 08:50:51 pmMy wife concluded that, and she is an expert in that field

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2012, 08:20:54 am
content: for work i ususally have to work with a gas soldering iron, now when they get old, the cheaper tips have a flaw where it thins out drastically at the bottom of the tip while solder fills in its shape,just so happened that the tip at some redicuosly high temp after regassing it,(gas ones tend to run hotter due when re-gassed))the tip snapped off, landed on the middle of my arm, took me a number of seconds to realise, and then had to deal with half a soldering iron tip, and the solder that had followed it sinking into my arm while i was tangled under a vehicle trying to join 2 wires.now there is a good grin at my expense(the skin healed afterwards so you can have a laugh)

author: PeteInTexas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2012, 05:59:16 pm
content: Quote from: Dataforensics on January 11, 2012, 07:24:47 pmLogic ICs are smart. They can organize. This was payback for all the ic's you've maimed and killed by walking around in your socks all the time.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2012, 01:56:04 pm
content: Quotemental?Quotehave you watched "Junior"? i believe giving birth through the dick is alot not fun compared to either "a woman giving birth" or "stuck cap lead under fingernail".

author: wkb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2012, 03:21:05 pm
content: QuoteIf they were'nt smart we would call them illogical ICs !

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2012, 03:37:08 pm
content: IC No Logic in going around in my socks having IC`s on their back on the floor..Maybee if You had some boxers on they could hit back if You pulled them down your feet....