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[boatmadman]

Right, lets have your horror stories...

My worst is nearly slicing off the ends of a couple of fingers overhanging a steel rule as I cut thin ply with a stanley knife!

Ian

[bigford]

hey boat
 
    i get that uneasy feeling every time i do that
so far my worst injury is or was i stabbed myself with a brand new #11 blade
 :(

[Peter Fitness]

Having spent 37 years of my working life in the meat industry, using knives and other lethal instruments, I have never suffered an injury modelling. I suppose ingrained respect for safety as a result of those years, means I am still very aware of the risks of using sharp implements, and take the necessary precautions. :angel:
Peter

[RipSlider]

Hmmm....

Building models + working long hours + being on prescription pain killers is not a good mix.

In the last few weeks I've savaged my left index finger with a router bit in a dremel and inserted a No. 10a scalpel bale into my finger on a number of occasions. On the upside, once it soaks in and dries, it pretty easy to sand blood of plywood to a pretty good finish.

Worst injury though was when I was a whipper snapper. My Mother put my father in charge of me for the day while she was at work and I was off school. I was cleaning the mould lines off a minature toy solider using a scalpel. It slipped, and went straight into my palm, severing nerves and tendons as it went.

it took 2 operations and about 3 years for all the movement and sensation to come back.

And, when I ran screaming to the old man squirting blood everywhere, what where his first words?

"For Gods [/i]SAKE[/i] Steven, could you have not waited until tomorrow?? Your mother is going to KILL me..


Thanks pop.

Steve

[Martin (Admin)]

On this note, I must say the quickest way I have found for staunching a flow of blood is a 'Baby Wipe' around the injured finger and a loose elastic band. Seems to heal the cut much faster too!  Magic

[Colin Bishop]

How about induced mental instability due to attempting to construct a certain German battleship?  ::)

[MikeK]

On this note, I must say the quickest way I have found for staunching a flow of blood is a 'Baby Wipe' around the injured finger and a loose elastic band. Seems to heal the cut much faster too!
Magic 

Having carefully shaved off finger tip skin a few times as per Ian's experiences, thanks for the tip Martin, I'm sure I will be trying it before very long !

Mike

[Martin (Admin)]

Oh, and....
Never use a soldering iron on dried superglue, the smoke really makes the eyes sting.
Never say "I'll just quickly do...." with a knife in your hand.
After using a blow torch, the metal is still very hot even though it's not glowing any more.
Exhaust pipes stay hot for a long time.
Anything spinning very fast hurts a lot.
Don't try to break the fall of a rechargeable drill falling of your bench with your foot, it's very heavy.
Drilling bits of metal without clamping it properly make for good weapons of war.
Hands don't make good brakes.
... and the usual supergluing myself to the model, the bench, nose. etc, etc.

[John W E]

hi there Martin, and everyone

Now please be careful heating superglue with a soldering iron or any other heating implement for that matter.  The fumes that are released are a form of cyanide which can be quite detrimental to your health - it can give you flu like symptoms which last for48 hours or more.  How do I know  :'( comes under the heading been there, done that and suffered the consequences 

aye
john e
bluebird

[Stavros]

Oh Lord Martin you sound like an accident looking for somewhere to happen.If this is the case you should heed this advice


Don't even get out of bed

Stavros

[Guy Bagley]

when i was alot younger ( and greener) i got superglue on my fingers,  i was the sort of kid that used to love picking of the 'crusty' bits of adhesive off my fingers....ok i was a strange 10 yr old.......

 but this time  i had activator to hand, so after being careless and getting cyno on my index finger and surrounding fingers i thought a quick squirt of activator would cause the glue to set and ultimately this would make it quicker to pick the excess adhesive off !

 but oh boy how naive can a 10 yr old be.... whats an exothermic reaction... ?

the activator caused the skin to bond exceptionally well ,  but the worst bit was THE CHEMICAL REACTION CAUSED HEAT.....LOTS OF IT, - so bad enough to have fingers stuck together but the skin was blistered through the burns acheived by the chemical reaction........ but as a sick 10yr old i had weeks worth of picking off the scabs and blisters !!

all healed nicely about 6 weeks later !

[dreadnought72]

My worst is nearly slicing off the ends of a couple of fingers overhanging a steel rule as I cut thin ply with a stanley knife!

Hi Ian - having done this, and fearful of doing it again, I dug out my (almost unused) plaster float and use it for all cuts like these. You get the benefits of a straight edge, a handle to keep your fingers out the way, and the ability to put more pressure on the wood/cutting edge to help prevent slippage. Works a treat.

Andy

[Welsh_Druid]

Many years ago making  a propellor for a small indoor flying model I twirled the little prop and a drop of liquid cyano glue shot off and landed in my eye. There was no doubt it was there as I had a blurred  spot in the centre of my vision. 

Off to the Docs who said "yes I can see the spot of hard glue, but I dont know what to do about it " He rang the Hospital for advice who said "send him to us".

A 30 mile drive to the Hospital and was greetd by a young Doctor who said  " I was looking forward to this . This is a first for me - I've had eyelids glued together but not glue actually in the eye - go and have a cup of coffee and I will see you later after I have thought about it "

Having a drink, I blinked and suddenly the blur had gone ! It seems that the thin layer of mucous which lubricates the eye to allow it to turn had prevented the glue from sticking after all.

[Ghost in the shell]

i've burned my finger and thumb on a soldering iron, but thats really about it apart from the odd cut gained with slipping with a knife.

[Martin (Admin)]

I've burned my finger and thumb on a soldering iron, but thats really about it apart from the odd cut gained with slipping with a knife.

That used to be a test for comepence in my job.
Test 1. Plug in the soldering iron and let it heat up.
Test 2. You now have 3 chances to use the soldering iron with burning yourself.
... low standards in the computer industry.... 

[cbr900]

The craziest I have seen was on an aircraft not a model boat, the guy started the motor and then reached through the spinning prop to adjust the mixture, 68 stiches later he did not try that again....


Roy

[malcolmfrary]

Don't even get out of bed

But..isn't that where most accidents happen anyway?

[boatmadman]

Hope there are no HSE police on this forum!

[Robert Davies]

I err... did cut the corner of one of my knuckles off whilst trimming lead flashing for ballast with a pair of scissors.... (the sort of scissors that blur the distinction between scissors and shears....)

Luckily my somewhat early audition for 'Nip/Tuck' involved mainly skin(!) I retrieved the err... 'bit' and taped it back on with a gauze pad and half a mile (slight exaggeration ) of micro pore plaster and the impromptu regrafting 'took' and healed, not altogether prettily, a few weeks later.

I still have substantially all my extremities, fingers, toes, despite my best hobby induced efforts. Did I tell you how I chopped the tip off the third finger of my left hand? Well it involved the mechanism of a Diana 52 air rifle and..........



-Rob

[John W E]

Aye there all,

Here's one for the books.  Before I was even born long, long, long time ago my late dad had an accident using a circular saw.  Not a little diddy bladed one, but a 30" bladed table saw (the ones for cutting trees up).   

He was cutting timber for a full sized boat, but, instead of using a 'pusher stick' to push the timber through the saw blade, he just pushed it through with his thumb.  Consequenly it took his thumb nail right off - between the nailbed and the nail.

When I was born okay then MANUFACTURED  :) it was noticed my left thumb nail bears the identical marks/scar across it, to what was on my dad's left thumbnail following his circular saw accident.

So go on - all check the kids out now.....  :) :)

aye
John e
bluebird

[bigH]

  Three days in hospital while they removed over a dozen brad type nails  from my thigh,  that'll teach me to use an elactric nailer and ply sheeting while on my lap.....

[Circlip]

     Eldest tried the prop trick with his HB25 and a wooden blade, not much blood, few parallel cuts
     'Shut up whinging'  We breed 'em tough. Many years later after he had left the nest he tried it
     with a circular bench saw P1llock) some people never learn it took 3hours reconstructive surgery
     to his thumb and a missed holiday in the States, His wife and son didn't miss out, they went, BUT
     he has now learnet NOT to stack things behind you when working, something very light fell on the
     back of his legs and ZIIIIP

[dougal99]

Many many moons ago I broke my arm running after a free flight glider and slipping on some mud. Mum thought it was a bad sprain and only took me to hospital 8 hours later when I got back from a party. 

Great days

Doug

[Abuelo3]

Hello to everyone
Being a MD working at Hospital for real, I saw a lot of injuries, some chrastotroficc and bizarre, some generated for stupidity, so, when I 'm at my building models table, I'm thingking in safety first, I wear eyes protection, mask for lung protection if I'm panting, gloves if I'm using the heating or rotatory tools, :angel: some day I was soldering with an electric iron, finish to use that and Thought, This hot tool, I have to put in a safe place in order to cool, far away from the table, I put in my chair, put off the gloves, the eyes protection, the mask, and with an air of victory, sit down. :'(
The lesson is : injuries happen, but stupidity is always.

[djrobbo]

Hi guys......been pretty fortunate really....filleted left hand with grandads knife when i was about ten, carving bow blocks.......fell in lake a few times ....stuck fingers together with superglue a few times......oh yeah ....and keep hitting large fingers with hammer when putting in small pins.........got a pin pusher now !



          regards bob.....