"Cold heat" soldering?

[Jules Richardson]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 17:02 +0000, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> In message <S.0000412101 at mythtech.net>
>           chris <cb at mythtech.net> wrote:
> 
> > >the attraction is to all the people that burn themselves WHENEVER they 
> > >pick up a soldering iron...
> > 
> > I thought those burns where a right of passage in using an iron!?!
> 
> Yep - picking up the hot end of a soldering iron is another one. Yes, I've
> done that once. 

That was my first experience of a soldering iron when I was about
ten :-)  I promptly spent the morning melting holes in anything plastic
that I could find, once I'd stopped yelling.