The Maillard Reaction
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It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
because it's getting so hard to see what I'm doing.
I use a big magnifier light contraption but it's a monocle and depth perception gets hard to judge when you only use it occasionally.
I got so frustrated I thought I might take up a new sport.
At least I'll be feeling no pain on my brand new callous pads when I jam on the 6 string tomorrow. :-)
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 20:11:51
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I sure know how ya feel. I wear magnifiers too. They sure help with fretwork
but no relief from the bad feeling of my eyes not working. Getting old is a trip.
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 20:21:29
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A doctor once told me, "Getting old isn't for wimps." Every day I find something that proves that statement.
I've only had my bifocals about a year and I think they're already outdated.
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 21:13:44
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The young can't handle being old.
Sounds like a Chinese proverb, roight?
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 21:26:30
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Hail...the young cain't handle anythang ceptin what requires the expenden of energy or semen. Dang em.
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 21:33:31
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I think you meant seamen, like in the Navy right?
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 21:53:16
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Si, man
C, man
or summat like that
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 21:54:44
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I use one of these little Gorillatorch lights, which allow you to get some light pretty much wherever (the magnetic feet stick to everything and tend to "collect" parts and tools though): 
 In order, then, to discover the limit of deepest tones, it is necessary not only to produce very violent agitations in the air but to give these the form of simple pendular vibrations. - Hermann von Helmholtz, predicting the role of the electric bassist in 1877.
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 22:41:43
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I find burning my hands good and proper on the stove a week before prepares me well for a bit of light soldering.
That reminds me I need to find my gun and a bucket the Doctor wants me to provide a blood sample tomorrow.
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/29 23:43:40
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Dave, you know I can see you. What are you doing?
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/30 00:10:55
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Jonbouy
I find burning my hands good and proper on the stove a week before prepares me well for a bit of light soldering.
That reminds me I need to find my gun and a bucket the Doctor wants me to provide a blood sample tomorrow.
Kewl, who's blood are you going to give him?
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/30 00:20:11
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mike_mccue
because it's getting so hard to see what I'm doing.
I use a big magnifier light contraption but it's a monocle and depth perception gets hard to judge when you only use it occasionally.
I got so frustrated I thought I might take up a new sport.
At least I'll be feeling no pain on my brand new callous pads when I jam on the 6 string tomorrow. :-)
I've been bugging out for a couple years and it sucks. I can't read a phonebook or most detailed schematics. The work around was to grab one of those Blackberry tablets for all my schematics in PDF format. Better than my computers because I know the section I want to examine and can simply enlarge it. Fortunately I don't burn myself often and this week I built my first amp tag board. If it sounds good I'll leave the point-to-point wiring behind because it's very hard on the eyes. I also take the projector lenses from old 16mm units and use them as magnifiers. Improvise and overcome, one with solder you'll become.
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/30 00:50:08
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I use one of them thar gorrila thingees here as well as old 16mm lenses ...and still manage to get burns on me fingers....
Oh well...at least it is not on smt boards....
The space you have will always be exceeded in direct proportion to the amount of stuff you have...Thornton's Postulate. Bushpianos
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/30 07:29:59
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:-) Thanks for commiserating with me guys. :-) It's really helpful to think someone else understands or has walked the road already. best, mike
post edited by mike_mccue - 2012/03/30 07:51:15
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/30 07:34:25
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mike_mccue
:-)
Thanks for commiserating with me guys.
:-)
It's really helpful to have think someone else understands or has walked the road already.
best,
mike
Walked the road already? Man, I need a push even to do that these days.
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/30 07:52:07
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All hills lead to the beach?
If you go the easy way.
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/30 08:36:55
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Re:It's a sticth getting old... cauterized my fingers twice today while soldering,
2012/03/30 08:39:22
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mike_mccue
:-)
Thanks for commiserating with me guys.
:-)
It's really helpful to think someone else understands or has walked the road already.
best,
mike
One of my hobbies is actually model railroading...one of the 'benefits' of this are the quite regular knocking on my head of the benchwork as I crawl out from underneath it...too many small concussions as it were... 
The space you have will always be exceeded in direct proportion to the amount of stuff you have...Thornton's Postulate. Bushpianos
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