Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: boatmadman on October 22, 2007, 12:12:24 am
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Right, lets have your horror stories... O0
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
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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
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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
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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
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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 O0
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How about induced mental instability due to attempting to construct a certain German battleship? ::)
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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 O0
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 ! O0 O0
Mike
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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.
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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 :D
aye
john e
bluebird
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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
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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 !
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.... 8)
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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
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Don't even get out of bed
But..isn't that where most accidents happen anyway? :embarrassed:
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Hope there are no HSE police on this forum!
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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..........
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-Rob
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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..... :) :) :D :o
aye
John e
bluebird
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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.....
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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
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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. 8)
Great days
Doug
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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.
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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.....
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I have drilled my finger, rushing about to finish a pcb went to drill a 1.5mm hole , finger underneath supporting the board damm that hurts >:( >:(
I also have chopped my finger with a chisel, SWMBO kept on to me to replace the lock in the back, threat of violence if not done (should have taken the beating) chisel slipped sliced index finger, lots of blood and lots of stiches to repair tendon.
Brian
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My turn............
1. Ran into a barbed-wire fence at full tilt while towing a glider (age 9);
2. Buried a Stanley knife up the hilt in my thigh while working on a model held in my lap (age 13); and - my pinnacle of achievement -
3. While working for True Line Model Aircraft (a 70's kit manufacturer), I started up a Veco 19 at a public display and picked up the model to launch it. Like the clever b*gger I've always been, I picked it up from the front with my two hands behing the C of G............yep - stopped the engine! Broke a Kavan glass-nylon 9x4 prop too. Alf Baldwin - the Boss, bless him - took one look at all the blood and said "I hope it's not your drawing arm, Dave". I was duly carted off to hospital for some stitches in my slashed forearms; I think there were 11 in one arm and 9 in the other. Walking down the casualty ward with blood dripping from both arms and my very worried girlfriend in tow, I noticed the gawping expression on the faces of some of the other casualties in there and I just couldn't resist it. I turned to Trish and said, very loudly, "this is too bl00dy messy, duck - I'm gonna try an overdose next time". Sound of jaws to the floor, but it cheered me up!
This event was also the origin of my very favourite anecdote about a nurse, but there may be children reading this....................
FLJ (Foolish Lumbering Jerk?)
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Robbo- pointy nose pliers. A lot like fingers but harder and dont hurt as much when you hit them.
I've done most of the usual, but the notable one was the time I was doing a fresh prop shaft in a hurry before the first Blackpool show, when I tried to saw a lump out of my thumb. Nothing a plaster wasn't good for.
The following day we were visited by Fred the weather man in the circus ring and the camera zoomed onto my little tug, then up onto my transmitter and thumb where the plaster was doing its own thing and working loose. I only found out about it when all my mates in the office told me about it on the Monday. 4 seconds of my fame allowance gone for nowt. Didn't even gain a groupie.
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Hi malcolm......did use thin pointy nose pliers for a while until i realised that my track pin pusher was actually made for making model boats......oh and i did forget to own up to sitting on hot soldering iron .....but that was when i was a lot younger!!!!! ;) ;) ;) :D
regards bob......
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Great stuff, keep them coming, it is MUCH better than ER O0 {-)
Peter {-)
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I was sat at the bench, trying to do up a grub screw in the model. I couldn't see it properly, so I reached for my specs. The screwdriver was in the same hand as the specs as i picked them up, sharp end toward my face as I put them on. ( are you cringing yet)
I was lucky, the little screwdriver was stuck in my face about half an inch from my eye, boy that stings. On the plus side, I got a very satisfying shriek from the missus when I wandered in to ask her to remove it.
I work differently now.
Chas
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Chas,
Sorry, I fell on the floor in hysterics on that one! O0
Nearly done the same myself!
Ian
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Not me but a friend of mine dropped an electric wood plane with the motor engaged. As a purely automatic reaction he attempted to catch it in mid air but put his fingers underneath.......ouch!
My usual trick is a common one, it even happens when I am thinking to myself, "Fingers behind the knife"!
Roger in France.
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The nastiest modelling injury I've suffered wasn't entirely my fault. I was using a knife with snap-off blade, and applying a fair amount of force to cut 6mm balsa, so the blade was extended an extra click, but no sideways pressure. The blade snapped and removed a chunk of flesh from the side of my index finger that was holding the steel rule I was cutting against, the bone was exposed and you should have seen the blood. I was told that I'd suffer some loss of feeling and mobility in the finger, but several years later, no problems at all, and there's hardly a scar, which only means that I've been very lucky. I learned an important lesson, and now I don't really put much trust in snap-off blades and only use this type of knife for light cutting. I use a Stanley knife or similar for anything heavier, you can buy the blades for these quite cheaply in bulk from surplus stores if you do a lot of cutting, and they sharpen well on a diamond hone.
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I've had all the usual injuries supergluing myself to everything, cutting myself with a scalpel but the worst injury I have ever suffered was when my wife found out how much I spend on this hobby!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Mark.
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My main injuries seem to be to my trousers, blobs of glue on most of my "best" pairs.
At least hands repair themselves...epoxy is on the strides for ever.
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Hey Mark, was the injury to do with that monster scorpion?! {-)
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Yeah Frankie, along with paint, ( mostly white, yellow and red on a hired wedding suit on my daughters wedding day......
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Hello from the Hospital
Let me tell another horror of my book, some day I was sharping a piece of wood, with an surgical knife, one of those that You can see in a Forensic table, hit mi second left finger and "surgical" 8)cut the nail, the lost of blood was splendid, with the arterial power I send blobs of blood to everywhere...
So I have to call my Wife, she's a very cool lady, the strong kind, She saw the blood, me and asked, "well, what are you doing, now",That I had to do at that moment was to make the bledding stop, I got an screwdriver, small one and put over the fire of my ligth, it got the correct red color and I put it in the tinny arterial dot's, to my Wife, that picture was a horror scene, for me was a standard surgical process, She toll me , "when you finish to play doctor with your finger, come to dinner, you crazy surgical nut.(but in Spanish, OK. {-)
Best wishes and be safe, please
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hmm - which hospital do you work in Godo? :o
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Although not model boats exactly but still model related, I reached around behind a 16 inch propeller at full throttle to adjust the mixture screw of a Del Orto carburetter... dificult even with the engine stopped. I felt something nudge my wrist and a fraction of a second later, the remains of my watch flashed before me as it began a destructive trip around my workshop. My blood ran cold as I contemplated what might have been..... whole wrist scooped out! I am a very lucky bloke!
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Have you seen German video on the Jokes thread, gory, funny and effective!
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Have you seen German video on the Joks thread, gory, funny and effective!
Is your spellchecker on strike or away on holiday Colin?
Oops! Corrected - you are more awake than I am!
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The most serious and potentially incurable modelling induced injury I suffer from is of a psychological nature and results from marriage to a woman of the female gender who refuses to accept that I prefer model boat building to the mind numbing tedium of Deadenders, Casualty, Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor, etc, etc, etc.
This condition is common amongst many married men and can be avoided by the simple expedient of remaining single.
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Hello from Veracruz, México
To Boatmadman:
In the real life I work at the Hospital of the Mexican state oil company, PEMEX, I'm the second in comand, here we have to face with the casualties from industrial accidents, great injuries from fire and pipes under great pression, not everyday, here we have a General Hospital, to care child and grandparent's,
Best wishes
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Hi Godo, judjing from some of the accidents re-told on here, it's a wonder no-one has opened a hospital just for modellers. {-)
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great idea sheerline - with indoor boating pool, planet rock on the radio and complimentary whiskey! O0
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Boatmadman, it wouldn't work, there wouldn't be a sharp scalpel blade left in the place, ::) all the eyglasses would go missing and there would be blokes racing glo-plug powered bed conversions up and down the wards.......... Truly Mayhem!!
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Thats my kind of mayhem - you forgot the water fights using syringes! ;D
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Well it was another wet Sunday stuck at home so I decided to get down to making the radar on the Smit Nederland rotate. I have seen the posts on here about ways of doing it so I striped down an old mobile phone for the tiny motor inside and found the rpm high and did not have any means of slowing it down. Put it to one side for another application. Then I striped down an old servo and decided to use it with modifications. So out came the brand new solder station with stand etc. Mistake, forgot to put the hot iron in the stand and failed to notice the shorter handle result managed to grab the hot end. Graham :o :embarrassed:
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Man after my own heart. Been there, done that.
Don't smell nice either. :embarrassed:
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i had a bad fall it was on a saterday night geting my boat ready for sunday it was one of my biggest boats big tug abuot 35lbs i left a 12ft roll of carpet on the floor as i headed for the door i forgot about the xxxxxxx carpet i was still holding the boat when i hit floor hit a chair on the way down smashed my finger and my ribs could not move my finger for weeks the good news is the boat was ok O0
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I know this doesn't rate as 'Injuries' but I was supergluing all day today and now I don't have any fingerprints.
The ends of my fingers are caked in the stuff. I don't have any remover so I guess I'll have to wear if off. ::)
Cheers...Ken
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The ends of my fingers are caked in the stuff. I don't have any remover so I guess I'll have to wear if off.
You could try nibbling at it Ken, but don't expect to wake up in the morning...
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Soak your fingers in hot water and gently peel off the glue
stavros
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Thanks guys. I was picking at it while watching TV and realised the skin was coming up with it .... :embarrassed:
Cheers...Ken
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When I first started building model planes I had a serious brain to hand communication problem and proceded to cut a piece of 1/4 inch balsa I was holding in my hand , slicing through it with a very sharp new Stanley blade and cutting deeply into my finger tip on the other side of the balsa, quickly rushing to the bathroom to run cold water over it (seems to work for most things) I then had to hold the tip of my finger with my thump pusihng the cut bit back to stop the bleeding then having to cut a piece of fabric plaster and put it on said finger.
Hasten to add I have never cut another piece of balsa using that technique again..
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Thats my kind of mayhem - you forgot the water fights using syringes! ;D
Difficult without fingers!
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Hello from Veracruz, México
Thats the best idea I have ever read in 30 years of medicine reading, thats a real Hospital in order to bring health to the patients, with a therapeutic dosis of rum at 6 of the afternoon, with a lake, CLEAN water, special divaces to avoid back injuries, without public making stupid questions, etc.
And of course with pretty nurses , beauty is always therapeutic :angel:
Best wishes
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AAAAAGH !!!!!!!! I can't read anymore.
Sinbad.
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Masking tape and kitchen roll are good for stopping bleeding. I have often had to sandpaper blood stains from a model boat before painting.I once picked up my soldering iron by the wrong end,that made me hop about a bit.
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Walloped a small chisel between my thumb and forefinger, thought it might have been a hospital job, thankfully not.
Andy. :embarrassed:
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Knocked over the large bottle of super glue (had removed top as spout blocked) then put han in spill and why is it an instant stick when you dont want it to ?
Took several painfull pulls to remove hand from desk and then lots of cream to soften skin.
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I once set up a I C engine to bench run it, forgot and left the coupling on one of them with a neoprene disk between two disks, and when it started it revved up to about 40,000 rpm and the end flue off , and hit my glasses a glancing blow and shoved them in to my eye brow 15 stitches later , was I glad that I always had safety glass in all my glasses. wont do that again
Peter
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Being quite warm here this time of year, I find it essential to have a can of beer at hand to help prevent dehydration. Seeing that I also smoke, using an empty can as an ashtray can be detrimental to one's health -
especially when you attempt to drink from the wrong can >>:-( >>:-( >>:-(
Martin Doon Under
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Very entertaining reading this thread, one more it has been mentioned on page one, I had been busy one day grinding a piece of metal for welding, lost ny balance on the way up and placed hand on very hot metal, not been into this modeling long so you can have that story instead. :)
Andy ;)
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worst injury i ever occured moddling apart from the normal slips with the stanly knife was working with sheet aluminum 0.5mm thick cut it up and whoops the sheers jammed the metal twisted, my little finger on my right hand got caught and well sliced clearly into my finger right to the bone, blood gushing everywhere eventually leaving a nice 1 inch scar across the top of my finger
hopfully u can just see the scar the little faint line ( sorry i only have a digital camara in my phone so image is best it can)
(http://s2.postimage.org/jB4bi.jpg) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=TsjB4bi)
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I was drilling a hole in a mast for the lights with a dremal but I dropped it straight onto my lap and into my leg, however, it did not stall so I had to reach for the plug and then pull it out. only half an inch but god dam it hurt. Got a nice scar on my leg now...
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Personally I leave all the dangerous stuff to SWMBO. I've learned a lot. For instance, a domesric sewing machine will break a needle if asked to stitch 2 fingers together. Similarly, there are easier ways to tell if a hot plate is hot enough than touching it with a dry finger.
And I've also been tought that the motor in a vacuum cleaner should be switched off before changing a broken drive belt. These little hints and tips have protected me from the dangers endemic to model making. BY.
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dont think i have ever comlpeated a model without some of my DNA (blood) onit somewhere
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Being quite warm here this time of year, I find it essential to have a can of beer at hand to help prevent dehydration. Seeing that I also smoke, using an empty can as an ashtray can be detrimental to one's health -
especially when you attempt to drink from the wrong can >>:-( >>:-( >>:-(
Martin Doon Under
Yep.... been there done that.
My best one was the other day
Was spray painting a gate from a rattle can and was having issues with the nozzle top so swapped it for a one off an empty can.
Of course i made sure the nozzle was facing away from me..... :D
I think my other half still has the pic on her phone lol
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Recently, when I was making the mast for "Lady Daphne", I was turning the bottom section from 20mm square ash.
Very successfully, I thought! :-))
Because it was 24" long, I had done the chuck up pretty tightly. >>:-(
Then I could not release the chuck easily with the two C spanners. O0 O0 O0
So I wedged the one spanner on the rest, positioned the other to give it a fairly hefty wollop with a rubber mallet in order to loosen it:- >>:-( >>:-(
Result:
I can still see it in slow motion! .... spanner left the chuck, rotated twice in mid air, before hitting front tooth via lip. :-X :-X ,broken front crown, bloody split lip, visit to dentist to remove sharp edges and pieces of tooth/crown from very swolloen lip and a bill for replacement of £177. <:( <:((That's NHS price)
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I have tell this, safety first, so a grab a piece of brass with cloth pin nailed to the special table to do the solder jobs, wearing the gloves, the face mask etc. etc. safety first, OK... the clothe pin losses, the piece of brass was shut up, rigth to the center of my (big) belly, so I have a new battle scar in the belly with the shape of a tug ruder. {-)
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Whoops, although not a modelling accident.
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On the X-ray they noticed a notch cut out of the bone. The bone saved my tendons.
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Note the dried blood inside the blade sheild.
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worst injury i ever occured moddling apart from the normal slips with the stanly knife was working with sheet aluminum 0.5mm thick cut it up and whoops the sheers jammed the metal twisted, my little finger on my right hand got caught and well sliced clearly into my finger right to the bone, blood gushing everywhere eventually leaving a nice 1 inch scar across the top of my finger
hopfully u can just see the scar the little faint line ( sorry i only have a digital camara in my phone so image is best it can)
(http://s2.postimage.org/jB4bi.jpg) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=TsjB4bi)
Some prophet, didn't see that coming then %)
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Trying to dirll a 1/8" hole through a piece of brass with a blunt drill, of course if you push really hard it will drill through, wont it! Drill bit broke and jagged part of drill went into my finger that was holding the brass. cold sweat feeling ran upstairs to show GF what i had done and get it repaired. The worst part was going back outside to put my toys away and finding flesh in the drill flutes <:(
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One black eye when the OH found out how much I was gonna spend to get the Deans DUKW up and running
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This story's not my own its my wife's father's. although not a modeling injury but its close in some respects, hes a builder by trade (bricky,fabricator,electrician, plumming, whole nine yards as he owns his own building company) earlier this year he was finishing up and extension and he was doing a section of the build using 0.5 mm sheet metal ( I'm not sure what it was being used for within the build) he had gone most of th day shifting this sheet metal in 8x4 sheets off the lorry, carry each one singular as the wind was quite high that day, clearly the fool wasn't wearing gloves but his counterpart was, they were holding the sheet via the edges when a gust caught the sheet and pulled now my father in laws counterpart managed to hold the sheet, but he didn't and it slid out of his hand right side, the sheet slid down his hand as he put in on the floor the speed if the drop was far more then it sounds, the sheets edge caught in his hand and sliced its way through every finger on his right hand at the first knuckle, until it reached his little finger where the sheet sliced deeper, and cut his little finger clean off! it was hanging by a thread of skin, his other fingers were luckily only cut and no other damage. clearly a quick trip to hospital where he waited for 4 hours in the waiting room to be seen, by the time he was seen he needed a blood transfusion to replenish the blood he had lost, his finger was irretrievable, so they stitched it up and sent him on his way a few days later. (thats nhs for you!)
although thats pretty sick slicing your finger off, my father in law being the joker he is, was allowed to keep his finger, using some sort of chemicals has frozed it and is now a key ring on his car keys!
if your grossed out don't look at this image it was pulled off my father inlaws facebook!
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Time to resurrect this old thread I started.
5 days ago, I was test running a .40 size aero engine clamped up hard (or so I thought) in a workmate. ****** thing came out of the clamps, engine, prop, fuel tank and went into my hand.
Result, half inch of right index finger left hanging by about 5 mm of skin, and big flap opened up like a meat slice off my thumb - lots of blood, 2 lines of splashed blood up the side of the wall, trip to hosp, temp repairs, sent home overnight, back next day for proper repairs under general anesthetic and sent home.
Much mickey taking by friends and family :}
Back to work tomorrow, not even getting any sick time off. :o
This will be good for getting a dig at scivers who take time off for a sniffle.
Ian
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I know this doesn't rate as 'Injuries' but I was supergluing all day today and now I don't have any fingerprints.
The ends of my fingers are caked in the stuff. I don't have any remover so I guess I'll have to wear if off. ::)
Cheers...Ken
Had that happen to me a lot.
I just turned lemons into lemonade and used my new armored fingertips to sand small parts on a belt sander.
Other than dropping a big ol' blob of molten solder right on my bare foot, I'm doing pretty well. Better than my father at his hobby... this will be the third time he's turned one of his fingertips into ground beef on a router. %)
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I have lost count of the times I've stabbed myself with my needle files.
Ali
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How many fingers was it I have left ???(joke) One of the worst of many accidents was a piece of steel shaving in my eye which took a trip to a clinic, two different hospitals, & an eye specialist before it was removed. It had actually started to rust by the time they DRILLED IT OUT. It is not funny watching a drill decend into your eye. The urge to jump off the gurney & run is quite overpowering. However the nurse had a death grip on my head so I was not getting away. ALSO HI. Everybody, I have just joined the forum & it is a super experience. I am building a Smit Nederland, & being mechanically inclined I :oam trying to fit all the bells & whistles at the same time(fire monitors,rotating radar,bow truster,all the lights, P100 sound unit from Action electronics(Dave at Action has been super helpful with a wiring diagram tying all the bits together, I think I may have quit without his help) I keep letting the smoke out of the wires & cant get back in. I live in Canada now (Calgary Alberta) but came here from the RAF a long time ago. I service ,repair, & restore old british sportscars,(MG, TRIUMPH,AUSTIN HEALYS,MINIS,E TYPE JAGS, ETC.)