Re: STAMP Circuit Needed - Paying $

From: Frank Bemelman (f.bemelmanx_at_xs4all.invalid.nl)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:59:10 +0100

"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> schreef in bericht
news:4r87q0d7q8gmeehao3ku1fkir9bph92f7i@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:01:20 -0800, the renowned Tim Wescott
> <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote:
>
> >Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
> >
> >> "Tim Wescott" <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote
> >>
> >>
> >>>there are plenty of new graduates who would grab the
> >>>hot end of a soldering iron if you let them.
> >>
> >>
> >> Grab it many times, in fact -- six-sigma statistical
> >> significance, you know.
> >>
> >I had a favorite uncle who inspired me to be an EE. He used to be a
> >project manager for Boeing; when he interviewed prospective electrical
> >engineers he'd casually hold out a (cold) soldering iron to the
> >candidate business end first and say "here". Anyone who didn't
> >carefully reach _around_ the tip to grab the handle in the approved
> >manner didn't pass the test.
>
> So he wanted people who would follow the approved "rules", whether the
> iron was hot or not?

The polite way to hand someone a soldering iron is to hold it
by the hot end yourself. 

-- 
Thanks, Frank.
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