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I feel obligated to add my silly mistake here. I was playing with SDR and was soldering together a small antenna for receiving ADS-B signals. I soon realised m
by VBprogrammer 5y ago
I feel obligated to add my silly mistake here. I was playing with SDR and was soldering together a small antenna for receiving ADS-B signals.
I soon realised my electric soldering iron wasn't powerful enough so I nipped out and bought a miniature blow torch. The kind which are basically a big cigarette lighter. Having got it home I tried igniting it a few times and nothing happened. I held it up to my ear to try to hear if there was any gas coming out, sure enough there was gas coming out, which in that instant ignited beautifully into a 700 degree flame pointed right at my ear.
- signaturefish 5y agoHey, accident twins! I once had a Zippo lighter that was playing up - you could strike it and you could see the spark fly, but it didn't light. I sniffed the wick, yeah, definitely fuel evaporating off it. I struck the striker, yup, spark. Sniff, fuel, strike, spark. Sniff, strike and OF COURSE the thing lights up immediately, sending a cigarette lighter flame right up my right nostril. I'm told by bystanders that half my face lit up in an "electrocuted film character" way for a fraction of a second before I jerked it away, and I was smelling nothing but burnt nose hair every time I inhaled for about a week.
- trasz 5y agoFWIW, when that happens just blow at it slightly.
- busymom0 5y agoWHAT?
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoFriend of mine did that with his gas furnace after it went out. I think his eyebrows grew back to where you couldn't tell anymore...