I had a fortunate accident today. I say fortunate because it didn’t cause permanent injury and has reminded me to follow our own safety procedures. I tend to get up close and personal when I solder. I was soldering a board today when a spot of solder flicked up and hit my eye lid. An 1/8th of an inch over and it would have been in my eye.
One guess where my goggles were. Right, hanging up on the wall, as in, not on my face. It made me realize that I haven’t worn goggles while soldering in quite a while. When handling a rocket or a big balloon we all very careful. The dangerous is apparent so as a result those our likely to be are safest times. It’s the common everyday dangers that bite you. So today I was very lucky and got solder in the face. It probably saved my eye ball in the future.
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