Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Ian White GM3SEK wrote:

(But I'm a fine one to talk: my bad habit is to sniff the soldering iron
to see if it's hot :-)

At least you stopped using your tongue to test it! ;-)

You folks are in good company: one of my friends, down in VK-land,
shook some excess solder off the iron tip -- and then decided that if
he was going to solder things, he'd wear pants, thanks very much.

--
About a deceased operator:
I'm still more than a bit surprised that he was able to operate
the weapon in such a fashion that it would fire. This is grossly
inconsistent with _my_ experience of his abilities.