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| cirvin |
Posted - Jul 17 2003 : 7:37:21 PM
About 5 minutes ago, i was putting the finishing tuches on my inverter when i got up to get a soda. my foot then caught the cord of my soldering iron. it fell over onto my hand. OWWWW!!!! this brings me to the reason for this post. one of the best treatments for iron burn is this aloe vera lotion. there are may kinds, but they are all a green very viscus gell. the lotion acts as a topical anesthetic. it works vey well for me. try it!
(Edit....Moved to Lounge)
Edited by - Aaron Cake on Jul 18 2003 10:10:11 AM |
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| BEatonNo1 |
Posted - Aug 04 2003 : 01:13:43 AM
I use a 100/140 watt gun. I prefer it to a 30 watt one I bought at radio shack. its nice to not have to wait for an hour before you can use the gun. If I have to make a quick fix to something I can pull it out plug it in and make the solder in less than a minute.
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| cirvin |
Posted - Jul 31 2003 : 8:53:15 PM
people still use soldering guns, for like large connections, automotive wiring, heavy duity high power equipltment ect. but for sure not for electronics.
next stop: nobel prize winner!
Edited by - cirvin on Jul 31 2003 8:55:07 PM |
| Epsilon! |
Posted - Jul 31 2003 : 8:36:43 PM
soldering guns generate heat by resistance.. high current is passed through the tip and heats up.. when you let go of the trigger it cools.. those are like 100w... you can still get burned when the trigger is off.. also they are heavy.. no one uses them anymore..
Edited by - Epsilon! on Jul 31 2003 8:37:38 PM |
| Kale |
Posted - Jul 31 2003 : 1:29:51 PM
Mine has two settings: 20W and 40W. When it's on 40W the tips start getting a bit soft... 
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| cirvin |
Posted - Jul 30 2003 : 2:24:27 PM
it was a 30 watt iron.
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| Nerf Smurf |
Posted - Jul 30 2003 : 1:53:44 PM
i know the grip dont have nothin to do with it. i mean do you have a soldering iron or gun. I recon the soldering guns are alot hotter
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| Kale |
Posted - Jul 30 2003 : 10:37:49 AM
Maybe the creams are more concentrated? Or they throw some other stuff in there besides the aloe to soothe the burn.
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| BEatonNo1 |
Posted - Jul 30 2003 : 12:02:33 AM
I dont think I have tried the cream but the plant doesnt work very well.
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| cirvin |
Posted - Jul 29 2003 : 11:36:58 PM
i ran a little bit of water over the burn, but that was for only about 5 min. then i put the aloe vera stuff on and it stopped hurting on like 30 min.
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| BEatonNo1 |
Posted - Jul 29 2003 : 6:57:08 PM
the worst burn I have ever seen, was at a campout. some ideot threw a plastic cup inthe fire, and my friend went to fish it out with a stick, and molten plastic ran down the stick and his entire palm was burnt. Furthermore, the plastic was fused with his skin...the funny thing is that you cannot even tell, the body has a neet ability to regrow the print on the hand
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| Epsilon! |
Posted - Jul 29 2003 : 6:23:14 PM
yup.. they hurt....
2 summers ago i was building an n64 controller interface for the pc. anyway.. the soldering iron cable got caught in the wire cutters and as I reached for them I pulled the cable and the whole iron fell on my knee.. I was wearing shorts. The burn was about 5 cm long..it was painfull.
In school.. my teacher was teaching the class on how to solder and he lectured us about safety and he told us a story...
Couple of years back when he was teaching a electric engeneering at the school everyone was at the work benches soldering. A student had put down his soldering iron the handle facing him as he was suppposed to, then some idiot thought it would be funny if he turned it around. So other guy goes and reaches for the iron unknowingly..... his whole hand was burned.. he had to go to the hospital...
Then the teacher told us that if you get burned apply cold running water to the burn.. it cools it. This actually helps alot.When you get a burn, the cells burst and you get a blister.. this continues down into the skin for 15 mins, even after the burn! Applying cold water or ice stops the blistering and the burn goes away in a couple of hours.. rather than days.
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| Kale |
Posted - Jul 28 2003 : 2:49:37 PM
Which is what always seems to happen... owie! The worst thing is that the larger the grip is, the more it just seems to get in the way rather than doing anything useful.
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| cirvin |
Posted - Jul 28 2003 : 08:39:28 AM
The grip doesn't do jack when you touch or grab the metal part.
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| Nerf Smurf |
Posted - Jul 27 2003 : 4:50:57 PM
did you all get those with a soldering GUN or IRON. I have a "cool grip soldering iron" 30-watt
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| cirvin |
Posted - Jul 24 2003 : 3:57:44 PM
ouch. it has been a weeand my burn is half the size it was. it hasn't hurt since the day i got it. i love the aloe vera lotion.
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