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Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video] by MCRed on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:25PM (#8702084)
No reason not to, really. The paint of my car has all kinds of evil chemicals in it, but if I lick my car I'm not going to die. Even if I licked my car a lot.

There's a huge difference between skin exposure and ingestion.

At some point being overly cautions crosses the border into pseudo science.

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Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video] by smatthews on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:28PM (#8702102)
>At some point being overly cautions crosses the border into pseudo science.

Sure, but there isn't much harm in that in this particular example. What is there to be gained by holding solder metal in the mouth?

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Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video] by jack-r-abbit on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:33PM (#8702137)
> What is there to be gained by holding solder metal in the mouth?

Unless you have a third arm or a monkey tail, holding the solder in your mouth is about your only option when the component is in one hand and the iron is in the other.

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Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video] by DanBC on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:49PM (#8702202)
If you spend any kind of time doing this you should just invest in a jig to hold the work. And solder is thin and flexible, it's pretty easy with a bit of practice to manipulate it with the other fingers.

Wiggling the joint while it's setting is sub-optimal.

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Re:Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video] by jack-r-abbit on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:59PM (#8702248)
Of course. But not everything fits into a jig.
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