Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Humour => Topic started by: Pufango on November 04, 2018, 02:38:51 pm
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Hello,what not to do when you’re tired.Last night I tried to drill a 1/16” hole in a piece of steel.
Not a difficult job you would think? Had a nice new sharp drill. Could not understand Why I wasn’t making much headway.
Silly sod had the drill bit upside down !!!
Must be a lot of similar things happened to the rest Of you!
Best regards Tony Wright
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yep, just sliced the top of my left hand middle finger, so joining the club. {-)
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:(( Bandsaw, late, simple single cut........which I achieved, but not on the wood {:-{ finger has a nice little scar now........
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Flicked some sawdust off my trouser leg , forgot I was holding a scalpel
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Ouch,good job you weren’t holding a chainsaw!Best regards Tony Wright
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Brushing sawdust or shavings to one side of the workbench with your hand -
usually finds the sharp end of a buried scalpel !
+ why does it happen just after you've fitted a new blade ?
A minor digression re scalpels -
lifetime working in the graphics industry producing artwork on sloping drawing boards -
staff would take bets to see how long it would take before the latest shiny new apprentices scalpel
slid off their drawing board and stabbed their foot.
Again after fitting a brand new blade (often their first blade) and always landing pointy end first !
Happy days Paul
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Excellent .keep em coming. Best regards Tony Wright
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As soon as I make more than one mistake, I know I am too tired. I just stop, because I know it is a slippery slope on the road to more foul ups. I am also less efficient and more grumpy.
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working with a scalpel on my lap, forgot , stood up, patched up big toe with scalpel hole in the top.
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I know it’s not funny but you have to laugh 😆
Best regards Tony Wright
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Using my soldering iron, pre chorded type, fell off the bench like an idiot t caught,boy it was hot.
John
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Told some of our club members not use their small table saw without the guard.
Doing a cut I had to take my guard off result top of thumb gone.
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Dreading next week, after the new worktops are fitted in the kitchen, i have to fit the new doors and pelmets etc. I use an old Black & Decker circular saw BD846, so trying to get the boat build complete this week (i can only try). On second thoughts, will have wife watch just in case - her singing i'm in the money won't be helpful.
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Also done the knocked the soldering iron off the bench, but due to quick reactions caught it. Still got the scar!
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Hello,it’s the split second before it hurts, before you realize what you have done,ouch !!!
Best regards Tony Wright
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I remember it well!
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Hi,
Interesting comment from MrZippy "why does it happen just after you've fitted a new blade".
The only time I cut my fingers within minutes is always after fitting a new blade.
I now have a roll of Bandaids fitted just above the bench.
Regards
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I asked young son about 5/6 Pass the soldering iron son. Yep he grabbed the bit sticking up . No lasting damage luckily.He said afterwards he thought just the end got hot. Logical to a child I suppose. My latest trick is working on my lap tray burning holes in my trousers sticking up past the edge of the tray with the iron.
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never mind the bandaids, just keep a roll of masking tape, just as good and cheaper. nemesis
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spent time looking for my glasses only to find they were on my head but had flipped them up out of the way. :embarrassed:
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Put a new blade in my knife, slipped about half hour later and cut my finger...
Cut both tendons, blood vessels and a nerve = a 2 and half hour operation
Tendon injuries take a long time to heal, 8 weeks off work and 13 weeks on and my finger still doesn't bend properly and the Amati grand banks that caused it is still covered in the blood!
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Don't panic that sounds dreadful but with a little soap and water you should be able to get the blood off the boat. Perhaps we should have an emergency model boat rescue service.
Strike while the blood is hot!
regards,
Roy
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A lot of our models have our DNA on them, intentionally or otherwise! The hulls of most of our scratch builds have bits of skin where the superglue got us instead of the wood!
A few years back Dad was trying out our new circular saw from proxxon and I told him to be careful, seconds later he then sliced the top of his finger off! Needless to say there were more than a few heated words uttered followed by ‘ I told you so’!
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It has to be said that there is a knack to scalpels. I sort of knew how to put a blade in before starting college in 1992 (I know flippin ages ago <:( ) but having seen a fellow student hack his thumb to bits wrestling a blade on, our tutor made damn sure we learnt how to do it properly!
My work scalpel often falls off the edge of the bench and down between one's legs (there is a cut in the cushion to prove it!) It sometimes lands point down on the 'Squishy bits' but never with any force, but have learnt not to try and catch it as you can force the blade deep into your leg as the reflex action has less planning than a premeditated action.
I stabbed my leg with a Stanley knife in 1997 when chopping something on the edge of a bench. It wasn't a gash,
but it bloomin bled.
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Hi slicing off a sliver of finger was an early learning experience on my Proxxon, there was so much blood and I suppose about an inch of flesh alongside the bone I decided to go to the doctors all wrapped up with kitchen towel, the lady doctor nearly fainted! All she had was an elastoplast, that was before we had a nurse attached to the surgery.
I eventually sorted out a lady I knew who was in the Red Cross took all my bandage things and she did a grand job.
Learnt my lesson to let gravity finish the job when I caught a soldering iron I had not so much dropped but reached the end of the flex. Needless to say it was on. A whole palm full of small burns! Best relief is a bucket of cold water.
regards
Roy
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Many years ago, middle '60s, I was working on a model with a particularly long and sharp model knife, pre-Swann Morton scalpel days, when the rather thick ply I was working with splintered and the knife shot through the gap and stabbed me in the knee, right up to the hilt of the knife!
I moved the hull out of the way and the knife was still sticking up out of my knee and my mother-in-law, who was sewing on the other side of the room said 'Oh dear, that looks a bit painful dear'! DON'T pull it out!' She was an ex-nurse and knew about such things, thank goodness. :-))
Then she and my father-in-law took me round to the local surgery and they put a strap round my thigh, took the knife out, sewed me up, 7 stitches as I recall, and bandaged me up. The doc asked what did I think I was doing, stabbing myself in the leg, and I replied that almost no thought was involved in the process........... :-)
I still have the scar to this day too.
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Did something similar in 82, as an apprentice in a drawing office of a HV switchgear company, I was using a retractable stanley knife to cut electrical tape and that film that is used to create copies of the original, and you scratch the parts out that are being changed and replace on the other side the other version in ink or plastic pencil, anyway it was on the desk with the blade out obviously, my elbow caught it and it slid of the desk and landed in my right leg, bouncing out and falling on the floor, after looking down I noticed the cut in my jeans and calmly collected some electrical tape and headed off to the toilets, whereupon I quickly bandaged the cut up with toilet tissue and the tape and then headed off to the on site medical centre.
A couple of days later whilst visiting the centre again I said - it's feeling lumpy, as I squose the area, a jet of plasma shot out and just missed the nurse who was just about to bend over to look at the wound, luckily the wound only went as deep as the dermas so no blood, i too still have the scar.
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Hi all, it looks like it is not so much the knife blade that does the damage as what goes in with the blade. Fingers get a bit of a bashing in our hobby and I picked up a useful tip when using proprietary plasters.
Frequently the plaster refuses to bend etc around the cut finger. I cut the adhesive part in half along the centre line, up to the medical bit so that you have four ends, these can be angled to fit around the damaged area and they usually stay in place a lot better as well.
regards
Roy
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i once did the dropped scalpel thing, it lightly brushed my leg on the way down, but I took no notice. it had been a new blade, but half an hour later when I looked down my leg had a dribble of blood where the blade had brushed, neat cut, 3 days later you could barely see the mark it had healed so well.
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I received a nice rabone ruler for Christmas and so off to the shed to try it out, measured carefully a piece of timber for my new workbench the cut the new rabone in half specsavers for me.CheersJohn
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I've recently returned to modelling after quite a few years away, so was pleased to discover when I dropped a scalpel this morning that my instinct to move my legs apart rather than try to stop it with them was still in working order!
I still have the scars earned while developing this instinct, though!
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After a few years working with glass,l learned a bottle of c.a. glue in the first aid kit does wonders...
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Never answer the phone if you are Ironing
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Using the formica topped kitchen table to cut a sheet of wood with a circular saw. Found it hard going. Wife looked underneath and said "you've sawed halfway through the table top." and I thought I'd allowed enough clearance. The table had a beautiful line of plastic wood filling the gap for years and had to make a saw-horse for outside use. No blood was spilled (that time), and my dad always said no model was complete till it had some blood on it.
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My big worry is "where are all the scalpels disappearing to ? "
Get a nasty feeling I will find out one day soon.
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If only it had been in the workshop.... I have numerous witnesses, including two Abbots! BTW I also have a Stanley Knife scar in my right thigh from about 1964 and two scars on my forearms courtesy of a Veco 19 with Kavan glass-nylon 9 x 4 prop... I guess some of us never learn.
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surprising what you can do with masking tape. Makes a superb bandage system. nemesis
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When you pick up the wrong colour aerosol from halfords instead of the clear laquer as the cans are all the same colour :embarrassed: %) .
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O0 Spent all of 3 seconds trying to use my drill driver and phillips bit to drive in a nail!! It was quite dark in the corner of the shop. Thats my excuse.
Rayna
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If, like me you're always putting your glasses on and off to see properly, make sure you've nothing in your hand when you do it. I got a nice shriek from my wife when she saw a jewelers screwdriver hanging from the skin next to my eye. I was very lucky, no harm done, but could have been horrible.
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you should have said I was just screwtinising something
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Forgetting you are under the work bench when the wife calls you. 2 trips to hospital and blood on the carpet.
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