>
>I had my glasses on at the time - now there's a flux stain on them, as well
>as a section of melted plastic near the rim.

Every time I go for glasses, I have to explain all over again, why polycarbonate is unacceptable.  I deliberately use oversized lenses. they've saved me from grinder chips, solder splashes, metal shavings etc.

When they do the lens busting demo, I just tell them that I don't plan to let anyone mount a lens buster on my face anytime soon.
It's actually fairly hard to bust the lenses while they are on your face, especially in wire frames.

They do make more money on the polycarbonates though, especially with the "UV coating" that stops the UV that doesn't pass through glass anyway. (short wave UV)

>Stupid mistake made, lesson learned...
>I won't even start on the number of times I've gained skin burns from the
>soldering iron.

Never grab a falling soldering iron. :)

>I once had one of those cheap "Made in China" soldering irons
>*explode*. Sent shrapnel everywhere - thankfully I was out of the room at the
>time. Made a real mess of the fridge-freezer. :-/

Exploding solder irons?

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