Topic: What not to do In the work shop when you’re tired ? (Read 9911 times)

Pufango · « **on:** November 04, 2018, 02:38:51 pm »

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

warspite · « **Reply #1 on:** November 04, 2018, 06:37:58 pm »

yep, just sliced the top of my left hand middle finger, so joining the club.

SteamboatPhil · « **Reply #2 on:** November 04, 2018, 08:17:21 pm »

Bandsaw, late, simple single cut........which I achieved, but not on the wood

finger has a nice little scar now........

Baldrick · « **Reply #3 on:** November 04, 2018, 08:24:30 pm »

Flicked some sawdust off my trouser leg , forgot I was holding a scalpel

Pufango · « **Reply #4 on:** November 04, 2018, 08:55:36 pm »

Ouch,good job you weren’t holding a chainsaw!Best regards Tony Wright

mrzippy · « **Reply #5 on:** November 05, 2018, 10:06:29 am »

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

Pufango · « **Reply #6 on:** November 05, 2018, 10:09:31 am »

Excellent .keep em coming. Best regards Tony Wright

tigertiger · « **Reply #7 on:** November 05, 2018, 10:43:00 am »

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.

grendel · « **Reply #8 on:** November 05, 2018, 12:43:24 pm »

working with a scalpel on my lap, forgot , stood up, patched up big toe with scalpel hole in the top.

Pufango · « **Reply #9 on:** November 05, 2018, 01:06:34 pm »

I know it’s not funny but you have to laugh 😆
Best regards Tony Wright

john44 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 05, 2018, 02:54:07 pm »

Using my soldering iron, pre chorded type, fell off the bench like an idiot t caught,boy it was hot.

John

boat captain · « **Reply #11 on:** November 05, 2018, 03:50:26 pm »

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.

warspite · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2018, 04:12:51 pm »

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.

bgrunes · « **Reply #13 on:** November 11, 2018, 08:56:38 pm »

Also done the knocked the soldering iron off the bench, but due to quick reactions caught it. Still got the scar!

Pufango · « **Reply #14 on:** November 11, 2018, 10:00:41 pm »

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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bgrunes · « **Reply #15 on:** November 12, 2018, 06:27:46 am »

I remember it well!

rickles23 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 12, 2018, 07:54:05 am »

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

Onetenor · « **Reply #17 on:** November 15, 2018, 02:45:44 am »

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.

nemesis · « **Reply #18 on:** December 29, 2018, 08:45:16 pm »

never mind the bandaids, just keep a roll of masking tape, just as good and cheaper. nemesis

hopeitfloats · « **Reply #19 on:** December 29, 2018, 11:06:43 pm »

spent time looking for my glasses only to find they were on my head but had flipped them up out of the way.

me3 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 02, 2019, 06:33:36 pm »

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!

roycv · « **Reply #21 on:** January 02, 2019, 07:35:11 pm »

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

raflaunches · « **Reply #22 on:** January 02, 2019, 08:12:25 pm »

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’!

ballastanksian · « **Reply #23 on:** January 03, 2019, 09:10:51 am »

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.

roycv · « **Reply #24 on:** January 03, 2019, 10:21:50 am »

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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