I thought I'd pass this on, as it's not really something you hear lots of on these forums... just as something to remember.

Recently I was doing some soldering on an old motherboard, removing a wire from an LPC point that had way too much solder. A good centimeter of the wire was exposed and tinned where the connection to the LPC point is.

As I was heating up the joint to remove the wire, prior to getting out some desoldering braid and tidying up the mess, I didn't notice that the heat from the original installation had put the wire under tension. As soon as the solder became molten the wire sprang away from the motherboard, flicking a blob of molten solder with it.

The blob caught me about a millimetre under my left eye and left a really bad burn. I've no doubt that it would have done serious damage had it been just a little higher.

So, for the future - glasses or goggles are in order when doing stuff like this. Ok, I'll feel a bit of a geek, but I'd rather that then be blind. Remember that there are inherent hazards with any of the modding we do. Carelessness sucks.

WOW>>>>> I wonder if theres one person that nothing like this has ever happened to? Used to be a thread about the stupidest things youve done while modding cant find it now though. Good warning for anyone who hadn't though about it before hand.....

You got pretty lucky it didnt hit your eye then. I got a holt solder spash on my knee once, I have a stand for my soldering iron, with a small sponge I use to dab off the solder, I wasnt paying attention, dabbed the solder (which was a ton for some reason) went to go back to my xbox, but the solder didnt come off on the pad, but rather my knee. Hurt like hell.

also, becareful of the ol' "test to see if the iron is hot yet"

im sure that, like me, everyone pulls this one off every once in a while.

I'm definitely guilty of this
Method hasn't hurt me yet, but I should stop it.

Yeah, I've had solder splash from the wires because of tension but luckily it hasn't hit me yet.