drinking and soldering = a very bad thing

[jeffaroo]

ol lady put a bunch of crap on my project table so i decided to solder on the front porch. went inside to grab another beer and came back out to realize i stepped on the project ! lol
sorry smoothie, rip !

[jubal81]

Another bad one is Ambien & soldering. Twice I woke up and found jumbled mystery perf builds that looked like they'd been thrown together by a dyslexic chimpanzee on acid. Oh, and the iron left on.

Needless to say I don't touch the stuff any more.

[Pvt. Parts]

My dog trampled a build on testing once... never working on the floor, and if so, no dogs in the house.

[slimtriggers]

Lack of sleep can be just as bad.  I once transferred the the hot iron, tip first, into my other hand so I could grab a part.  Needless to say I didn't hang on to it very long    That woke me right up!

[Hangingmonkey]

Ouch, just pictured it and it made me squirm. I nearly did that once

[bigmufffuzzwizz]

Haha I guess I've had decent luck compared to some of you. I tend not to work while drinking for i can only imagine the outcome..
My enemy is cat on the table!!!

[mandrewbot3k]

I only drink while working on my motorcycle, never while working on my pedals, that would be unsafe.

[electricstorm]

Many years ago, I was using one of those irons for wood burning (the type used to burn images into wood for art or whatever). I guess it was around 300 to 500 watts, not really sure, but it was huge. I was soldering some large ground wire onto a metal lug for an electrical cabinet. There is no bench as the cabinets are already installed. So the iron is in a cradle on the floor and a friend of mine stopped by to say hello. Of course, he wasn't wearing shoes, and stepped right on the iron. He was in contact with it for maybe a second or two. He got a severe third degree burn from it and couldn't wear shoes for about two months. Really felt sorry for him.

Now I put those types of irons inside the cabinet when I am using them.