nasty, not as bad but my mate put his hand to the hot air gun to see if it was up to temperature
The power planes are the devil, they take no prisoners
Then you get the deliberate ones, a moulder at the foundry where I did my apprenticeship would "accidentally" leave a finger on the moulding box as the pressure plate came down so he could claim compensation for industrial injury
In my late teens I stuck a finger in a chip pan to see if it was hot enough...
I used to snif soldering irons to see if they were getting hot untill the day I dabbed one right on the end of my nose, I don't know if the pain oe the smell of burnt flesh was worse.Working at the college some years ago, we were teaching a bunch of lads soldering, one of them wasnt sure if his soldering iron was working. And so to our amazement the head of department no less touched the iron to the tip of his tongue, And yes it was hot. How we laughed!
What's wrong with a bit of spit on your finger?I used to snif soldering irons to see if they were getting hot untill the day I dabbed one right on the end of my nose, I don't know if the pain oe the smell of burnt flesh was worse.
I now have one with a LCD temperature display on the side of the iron, which tells me how hot it is when it is turned on but not by how much it has cooled when turned off because the display also turns off. I know a soldering station would solve the problem but I don't have room for one in my on site tool box which I walk around London / take on the tube etc.
The 'snif test' was just a habit I got into, I suppose I did it because it only took one hand to hold the soldering iron and I could easily do it when working inside a rack, up steps working at he back of a projector or at a floor box under a boardroom table.What's wrong with a bit of spit on your finger?