Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: das boot on April 04, 2009, 11:58:28 am
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Here's a tip for all you guys...never, ever, go take a pee when you've got superglue on your fingers.
It hurts....
Rich
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Here's a tip for all you guys...never, ever, go take a pee when you've got superglue on your fingers.
It hurts....
Rich
{-) Reminds me of that scene in American Pie..
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ONLY A SUBMARINER could do that, lol {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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Rich, Has it left you with little ROUND sores??
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playing with his torpedo before the glue had hardened....................oooooh .....fatal %% %% {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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In a similar vein, don't do the ironing naked. :o
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and further to that. DONT take a pee after you have been using paint stripper. the big mistake was only wiping my hands and not washing them first
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If caught short at the lake, don't pee in the bushes, Wasps! %)
Paul...
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I can add to that Paul...many years ago when I had what's properly known as a 'personal body piercing' (the one that only my doctor and the wife had seen) I went for a pee in the bushes, and on zipping up, I caught the ball of the body ring in my zip...the ball pinged off into the undergrowth, and I never did find it, so I left the hoop inserted. Bad move...everytime I moved the thing caught in my clothing, in the end I had to take it out...with watering eyes I might add.
It was sore for weeks after, I was walking like John Wayne... <:(
Rich
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Now that was silly weren't it Rich...
Least he took the round thing out... OH NO!!!!! ;)
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Now that does explain U33's fascination with all things ROUND..
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Chopping chilis, too...
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In a similar vein to U-33; I know a chap that had a ring in one one his nipples, one day out fishing a wasp flew/fell into his shirt. In the ensuing panic the wasp started to sting him so he just grabbed the bottom of the shirt and flailed it off over his head the fainted.
We all just in a fluff, we thought it was because of the stings from the wasp.
Then we saw the hole where the nipple ring once used to be.....
The ring had gotten caght up in his shirt, and was still atached to i when we picked it up to get him dressed to drive him to the hospital
Ane word.
OUCH!
Soldering flux is another no no. One of the more subtle things. Dont burn right from the start, but its there, slowly eating away at the soft skin. I now have a box of latex gloves I use when super glueing or soldering..... <:(
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Don't close the drawer before donning the underpants
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Ian....OUCH. Big time!!!
(me eyes are still watering at the thought of that.....)
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During my time at engineering college in the 60's, one of the apprentices sat for a while on a wooden workbench. Unbeknown to him was the fact that battery acid had been spilled onto and soaked into the wood surface. The heat from his body drew out the acid and shortly after he was in hospital for a large skin graft on his rear end. Not nice at all.
Barry M
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Soldering flux is another no no. One of the more subtle things. Dont burn right from the start, but its there, slowly eating away at the soft skin. I now have a box of latex gloves I use when super glueing or soldering..... <:(
A similar one.
I was buring rubbish in a garden incinerator. I reached down to pick up bits from the floor, when a glob of molten plastic bin bag drippen onto my forearm. It did burn a fairly deep hole, about 2-3mm. Only about 6mm across.
It hurt more than a little and I still have the scar 20 years later.
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Last year I managed to stick a half inch chisel right the way through my left wrist. This was in my room, so I trondled downstairs into the kitchen where my mum was pouring some drinks. I said 'um help I'm bleeding'.... She finished pouring the drinks, came back into the kitchen, saw me with blood covering my arm, dripping off my fingers and elbow all over the floor and decided it would probably need some attention. Didn't go to hospitol, and got moaned at for getting blood in the carpet up the stairs...
Strangest thing though it didnt hurt at all, I pulled it out straight away (which probably wasn't a great idea) and bled everywhere for a good 5 minuits.
I did manage to go through two arteries with that chisel too...
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I tripped in my living room, stone cold sober mind you, put my arm through a glass door, severed two tendons at the wrist, missed main artery by 1mm (so doc told me a few days later), ended up in hospital for 6 days, 2 ops on the wrist and then a skin graft!
Moral of the story - get rid of full length glass doors!
Ian
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Is it any wonder why I worry about you lot? The words "accident prone" don't begin to cover it!
Oh well, here's another one for you...I used to keep a 14" Peruvian High Backed Black piranha, 99% of the time he was quite friendly towards me, but one time during a regular hunger strike(black piranhas are renowned for that)I'd fed him a sand eel and he'd refused it. I left it in the tank for a few hours then decided to remove it...I put my hand and arm down into the tank, grabbed hold of the sand eel, and in a split second the piranha had covered 60" of tank, grabbed hold of my left hand, took a deep bite and then shot off back up the other end. Now that hurt....the hospital staff thought I should have been in the mental department instead of A & E. I had a few stitches put in my hand, but it was a good thing that he'd only given me a love bite...a piranha that size is more than capable of removing an adult's whole hand.
He's now living in Dundee and approaching 24"....with a mouth full of teeth to match.
Rich
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Rich,
You really should rethink that ROUND thing, it sounds like you might kill your self getting it out of the house . . . . And just who did you give you fish to in Dundee ?
Andre
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I advertised him on a piranha related website Andre...a chap drove down from Dundee to Sussex after work one evening, arrived at mine about 0100hrs, we drained the tank down, put the big fella in a cool box along with a portable heater, he took fifty gallons of water with him, and drove all the way back to Dundee. A round trip of approximately 800 miles or so! And all in what we call a 'hairdressers car'...a little two seat whizzy sports car thing. Rather him than me!
I sold the old boy for £350, sad to see him go really, but what with 'er indoors getting to be very unsteady on her feet, it seemed to be the sensible thing to do. The thought of her tripping or falling and going through the tank was bad enough, but 14" of evil Peruvian teeth coming at her was the final straw really.
I imported the old boy direct from Peru on a personal import scheme, he was a mere babe of 9" when he arrived at Gatwick Airport.
Rich
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Never mind the round thing, build us a submersible Piranha...
We can all sing the Piranha song by Prodigy at it too...
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...HI Guys...
Here,s one that will always stick in my mind...
I used to own & skipper a 30 foot Charter Fishing Boat...One fine summers day we were anchored over a reef in the Firth of Clyde...
As the tide had turned it was agreed we would lift the anchor & drift the reef for a while...
I went up onto the bow & Pulled up the anchor, There was some Jellyfish on the rope...
I then decided to take a leak whilst up on the bow out of the way of everyone...
Jellyfish doesn,t just sting your hands, But also anything that you might touch before cleaning it off your hands...
My Private Parts were on fire for days after it...
...Best Regards...Norry...
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{-)I use super glue quite a lot when building models and can't even seem to stick my fingers togeather but did see a medic glue a rather nasty cut in an awkward place with the stuff!!! It healed with almost no scar... When I quizzed him about it He said that one of the original ideas for the use of super glue was to seal wounds in emergency aid stations by the military
Freebooter
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Another one I did was to superglue my hands together and had to get a scalpel blade inbetween my teeth to get them apart again, still have the scars today about 2 years on...
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If I am right in thinking most probably me thinking is not a good thing but wasn't supreglue invented by thte americans during the vietnam war and each soldier was given some to patch themselves up
Stav
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Yes, superglue was originally developed as a medical adhesive for use in Vietnam . Sticks people together very well doesn't it?
Colin
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Some years ago I was preparing to remove the battery from a car. The battery was the type with vertical terminals and bolt-on cables. The first cable was unbolted without a problem. The second had a corroded nut/bolt which stuck. I applied more force, the bolt sheared and the spanner swung down to contact the other terminal. I can now describe what happens when you short-circuit the terminals of a fully charged 12volt 45 Amp-Hr battery with a spanner.
There was a flash, a very loud bang,and the entire top of the battery was ripped off and hit me in the face followed by a shower of acid. I believe two things saved my sight; the first was that I was wearing specs and the acid sprayed my face and not into my eyes and the second was a large bucket of water I had nearby and into which I immediately rammed my head. When I surfaced some time later I hosed down the car body and the surroundings.
Surprisingly, neither I nor the car suffered any damage but from that time forward I treated batteries with more respect.
Barry M
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Another one I did was to superglue my hands together and had to get a scalpel blade inbetween my teeth to get them apart again, still have the scars today about 2 years on...
If you get your fingers stuck together with superglue, just gently roll your fingers back and forth. Superglue is not good at bending, and little by little your fingers will come apart without damage.
It might take 5 minutes or so.
You can speed this up if you have access to acetone, nailvarnish remover, or even some plastic glues contain acetone.
There is also a superglue remover on the market, Loctite do one.
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"There is also a superglue remover on the market, Loctite do one."
Erm... how is he supposed tp open the bottle with both hands glued together? ;)
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"In a similar vein, don't do the ironing naked. "
A bit like the Irishman who answered the 'phone while doing the ironing.
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Some years ago I was preparing to remove the battery from a car.
I remember watching something on Discovery.. the program about the scotish mechanic in spain? Well the useless lad who was there. He charged a battery while it was still in the car, when time can to stop the charging, he unclipped the leads before removing the plug from the wall.
On the program, they are all standing around with the camera on the group and there's a muffled bang behind them with him walking straight to the toilet... they all followed him there and he was washing acid and extracting bits of plastic off himself.
That coulda been worse!
I remember I once tried to stop a circular saw with a finger nail... I nearly fainted after that one. Shock! I only lost half the nail but felt as weak as a kitten. [I didn't really try to stop it, I was putting it down and the finger came in contact with the still spinning blade]
My luckiest escape was on a building site: I'm on a scaffold at bedroom window-ledge height, it's a housing estate and all the area directly under the scaffold was full of both full and open brick & slate pallets, planks, wood, and all sorts of cxxp. I'm up there getting set up to do my work and went to put the guard rail back on as a roofer had unclipped 1 end to lean his ladder against the gutter.
Just as I'm about the push the rail back into place, the plank went from under me and I swear to god the only bare patch of soil under there was a big as a telephone book and I landed feet first in it. Talk about sureal... 1 second earlier I was up there, now I'm looking at a corner of a the pallet of bricks like 4 inches in front of me crown jewels. I looked around to see if anyone was running to see how I was but no-one saw me. I had to go looking for some sympathy.
What saved me was I still had hold of the guard rail as I went and my instincts gripped that rail for dear life and bent it in a big 'r' in my graceful arc down... and that's how I landed after the planks*... it broke my fall. I was blxxdy lucky that day, I can tell ya. All I had was scuffed palms as the rail had hard sand/cement drops on it and they was like sandpaper on me poor hands.
* this is where the pallets and shxxe saved me as the planks must have fell the other side of all the cxxp and so couldn't bounce back over and hit me.
It was just a surreal experience.
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Some years ago, I was working as a maintenance fitter, I was overhauling a large centrifugal pump. As I was driving the coupling off the shaft with a hammer and lump of wood, my mate at the other end moved the shaft - result: 7lb hammer came in direct contact with middle finger splitting it wide open. It looked just like a sausage does when it bursts under the grill and all the flesh and fat bubbles out!
Went to the med centre, nurse then sat me down and proceeded to push all the flesh and fat back inside with her fingernails - think I fainted at that point! What a wus!
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I nearly fainted just thinking about it........ {:-{
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Since we're going there...
I was on an Archaeological dig in Carlisle in the early eighties, on a large site about ten feet down, scraping the surface of Roman occupation. It was a hot day, so none of us wore hard hats (yeah, "slapped wrists" - I know). To keep the sun from drying the soil out too quickly, we made moveable shades by leaning large sheets of 1/2" plywood against wheelbarrows at the very edge of the dig.
At one point, while I was hard at work leaning over something no-doubt fascinating, I heard a swoooooosh-thud. And right beside me - as in literally touching my shoulder - was an 8-by-4 sheet of plywood embedded in the soil that hadn't been there half a second earlier.
Something like 20kg of wood had tipped over the edge in a small gust, and fell guillotine-blade-like right past me.
I suppose it might not have taken my head right off, but I'm sure it could have at least broken my neck. :o
Andy
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I had a rather slose call with a sledge hammer once. We had removed a large storage tent at work, but the "tent pegs" could not be pulled up from the asfalt. They got the chop with an angle grinder. After tripping over the stump left in the ground, I got a bl00y great hammer to whack them right down into the asfalt..
After the second or third strike, the head broke off the shaft as I was swinging it up from behind me.
The some what lighter shaft of flew ten feet forward and the head? That went directly upwards, was arrested by gravity, and fell down to earth with a solid thump landing between my feet. The syump of the handle scratching my nose. Talk about close!
The remaining stumps where left as was.
Just remembered an other thing that was a bit lucky. Tried to lift a pallet of toilets down from a stack six pallets high. The smaller open truck I was in could not lift so high, so I jumped into one of the bigger ones with a closed cabin.
totally wrong i know but I took the top two pallets in one go and started to reverse. At this point an other truck comes flying round the corner. What do I do? Jep! Jumped on the breaks. The bottom pallet was soon against the guard rail, the top pallet carried on, rolled off and fell directly onto the roof of the cabin from about 5meters up.
Apart from the toilets getting totally smashed to bits the only other damage was to my underpants.
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After a pressure test on a 10" flexible pipe, I had to take the majority of the M30 studding out but I was reaching above my head with my right to extract the studding and my mate came over to tell me something and being distracted I dropped the M30 stud on the right handside of my forehead, slightly pee'd off I decided to extract one on the left side and my mate still laughing at my misfortune I told him where to go and dropped another M30 stud on my left handside of my forehead. So now my mate's on the floor losing all of his bodily functions, so I left the rest of them and decide to remove the high pressure fittings when the open ended spanner slipped and smacked me in the mouth. That was it spanner sent flying across the workshop and I was off for a couple to cigarettes.
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THIS is why I worry about you lot....
Rich
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Don't worry, at this rate there will be fewer and fewer to worry about..... :o
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Yes, superglue was originally developed as a medical adhesive for use in Vietnam . Sticks people together very well doesn't it?
Colin
Ever spill superglue on yourself and have it burn you?
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No, but people react differently. I can't use standard cyano as it gives me severe hayfever type symptoms for three days. On the other hand I can use epoxx with no problems but some people suffer a skin reaction to it.
Colin
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On the other hand I can use epoxx with no problems
I know it's all "Elf and Safety" but I think you would be better to put it on your models rather than your hand {-) {-)
Danny
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