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Promotional photographs demonstrating technical expertise that are staged by non-technical folks are almost always humorous. So... what's wrong with this picture?

Rob W1AEX

Well, she's going to have some burned fingers....

Well, its very, very obvious as to watt is the problem. She's using a Radio Shack soldering iron.

klc



Solder would be nice to have, too.

who has ever hand soldered a disposable PC mother board without solder?

She's not wearing her strap on. She needs a good grounding.

Smells like burnt chicken

 Marketing Department Strikes again!!! Our best product is BS!!

She saw pencil tip and went with it

At least She has Her Mandatory "Protective Eye wear" in Place.

Indeed she does Pete, but the major wrongness factor here is that the "Protective Eye Wear" clashes with her outfit! Outrageous!!!

Rob W1AEX

She's married.

Maybe they think it's a High Voltage Probe

I've done that when too tired, in a hurry, boss breathing down my neck. It's a very special kind of pain!

All I can say is OUCH!

Must using be the new cold solder technology...

In my uteth, I picked up my Unger on the wrong end. Its amazing how much skin will stick on to the ceramic element.

One should also wear socks and long pants when soldering.

klc

My first shortwave radio at age 14 was a Knight Kit Space Spanner. And, yeah, I did pick up the soldering iron like a pencil...one time. To this day (52 years later) the fingerprints on my index finger and thumb are altered and way too unique, making me abandon all hope of a career in safe-cracking.

The protective eyewear is wrong. It's for a 532nm laser.
 -or-
It's not a laser soldering pencil.

I learned the hard way that it isn't a bad idea to just wear shoes when soldering. Was in the shack working on a project one day and just had socks on and managed drip solder off of the end of the iron right onto my foot. It burned through the sock and if I remember right, went between my toes and burned through the bottom of the sock.

But that's the new style now, Rob... "Trump-Orange" glasses!

No décolletage. Ya gotta give 'em hope if ya wanna sell the soap!

W4EWH

Hope springs eternal........

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I picked up a soldering iron like that once when I was about 11. That was the day I learned I knew how to cuss!  ;D

Roland, looks like they improved the situation slightly, but the gurl ain't go no solder or solder wick wurkin'! When I was repairing Fender guitar amps I always wanted to see the production facility for the folded line reverberation devices that were "Manufactured by beautiful girls in Milton, Wisconsin under controlled atmosphere conditions"...

I've always been suspect of the 'atmosphere conditions' around anything related to guitars.  ;)

Had one of those RatShack pencils as my first iron. Also grabbed it once without looking. It left a nice dent down the side of my middle finger once it healed. Woke up before applying pressure with my index finer, thankfully.

I once laid my wrist across the tube of a Weller soldering iron stand that for some reason was missing the protective wire coil around it.  Left a burn scar that took several years to fade out.

But nothing matched the pain of the time I had a finish nail from my nail gun run wild and come out of the piece of trim I was holding up with my right thumb and forefinger, went into the meat of my thumb, and OUT through my thumbnail...man it hurts just thinking about it while I type this!

controlled atmosphere conditions just means some standard air conditioning temperature and humidity, or sometimes only a marketing thing, meaning 'air conditioned' work space.

I do like knowing that a lot of the old electronics was made by ladies. Made with love in the USA by American ladies young and old. There is nothing better.