How daft can you get?

[Eddy Matthews]

I was working on my model of the sternwheeler Suter earlier today - I glued some strips of 1/8" sq spruce to the edge of the decks to thicken the edge and help support the stanchions when they are fitted - After glueing the strips to the deck, I took a razor saw to them after the glue had dried, to trim them to length - And promptly sawed through the end of my finger! Blood everywhere!! Any normal person would have stopped sawing when they felt the saw hit - Not me - I just continued and took 1/8" off the end of my finger!

So I'm sitting here quietly now with a can of the amber anesthetic! :-)

[Red_Hamish]

Eddy, you are a sympathy usurper or possibly an anaesthetic slurper! Take care not to get an infection into the wound. As an update to my index finger: It can still be painful to type with (in fact I've learned to do without this digit) and now my spelling errors are less LOL.

cheers

Jim

p.s. I hope the wait in Accident & Emergency isn't too long on a Friday night  :roll:

[derekwarner_decoy]

Eddie - I don't think amber fluid will take the pain away - but maybe 700ml of malt wiskey as further antiseptic may assist - & so what tone is the spruce now? - Derek  

[Eddy Matthews]

Jim,

You have a valid excuse for your injury as it was caused by a powertool. I can't use that excuse :-(
 

Eddie - I don't think amber fluid will take the pain away - but maybe 700ml of malt wiskey as further antiseptic may assist - & so what tone is the spruce now? - Derek  

Wiskey as antiseptic? You mean dab it onto the wound Derek? How could I waste wiskey like that?

I quite like the light pink spruce - it definately does something for the model, but that could just be the 6 cans of amber nectar talking!  :-)

[thewharfonline]

I hate knife/saw/sharp intrument injuries, in woodwork I decided to give myself an accidental manicure on the belt sander.....almost had no nail left!

[axel_ess]

That probably hurt. but it doesn't win awards for stupidity. I probably did though. Several years ago (when I was young and foolish) I drilled a hole through the palm of my hand with a hand help power drill. I had to drill a shallow hole into a block of wood and instead of putting the block on the bench, I held it in one hand while using the drill with the other.  Guess I pushed harder than necessary. It sprayed blood from one of the shop to the other, even over the ceiling. Extracting the drill bit was quite painful, as flesh doesn't drill clean, it just twists up around the drill bit. The worst thing was cleaning bits of myself out of the drill bit.

[thewharfonline]

Argh yuck....I can really picture that quite nicely, would go hand in hand in an action film such as 'The building of the model boat" lol

[Khephre]

Big ouches all round!

Eddy, I know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but to imitate Jim so steadfastly on the injury stakes is probably more flattery than any of us can stomach!

I know this ain't a forum for war wounds but seeing as everyone else is stepping up to the plate with their own ... I'm in the final stages of recovery myself from having sanding one of my knuckles down to the bone - a left hand finger fortunately.

I bought a new (second hand) bench sander a month ago and I simply didn't think about how fast the outermost inch or so of the sanding disk was travelling. The rim of a 12 inch disk at 2,500 rpm moves at roughly 30 miles per hour - factor in the 100 grit grade of sandpaper and my knuckle was smoothed down real quick!

Must say in passing I've been very impressed at how effective the sander is, despite the damage it caused to me!!!

BTW, I'm with Derek - I've always found whiskey works darned well as an internal antiseptic. No worries there - it's just the 700ml quantity that would cause me some concerns.

Cheers for now and best wishes for a speedy recovery Eddy
Tony

[Eddy Matthews]

Cheers for now and best wishes for a speedy recovery Eddy
Tony

Cheers Tony, it's actually healed up very quickly, so I guess I was lucky! It's good to know I'm not the only one that's done something as silly..... Though Axel_ess's description of his injuries was a bit too graphic for me!

The thing that never ceases to amaze me is the fact that there's virtually no pain when you do yourself a serious injury, at least not immediately! But give it an hour or so and boy does it hurt!

[derekwarner_decoy]

In a previous life I spent 1504 days [4 & a bit years] as a weapons forman 'Grade II' at Sydneys Garden Island Naval dockyard - so apart from refits on gun mounts & missle launchers, part of my role was in the training of mechanical engineering trainees

Cut a long story short - a trainee was assembling a small mechanical weapons type component with SUPER GLU & tapped the components together wit a very small installation tool - only problem was that I was assisting with the visual alignment of the parts & my face was approx 1 foot away from the components - yes it happened!!!!!!!!!

SUPER GLU in my right eye - so after an hour in the Naval medical center & unable to get the eye opened I was transported to the Sydney eye hospital 1/2 a mile up the road

Eye surgeon said - you will be OK just have a cup of tea & relax - RELAX!@#$%^&!! I said my bloody eye is glued together

In reality it was just an involuntry action on my part thinking that my eye was glued & my mind would not allow the eye to open - the surgeon went on to explain that a drop of SUPER GLU hitting my eye would instantly be turned to the size of a piece of sand because cynocryolate & water do not mix - he was correct as later on the eye opened & I was happy - Derek

[Eddy Matthews]

Sounds like a lucky escape Derek!

Super Glue never ceases to amaze me - If you want a couple of seconds to position two critical parts accurately it grabs instantly! If you want it to grab immediately it takes 5 minutes to set!

I often use the old trick of breathing on the glue - The water vapour in your breath causes the glue to set quicker - But the number of times I've got a bit too close and glued my bottom lip to the model is unbelievable! :-)

[steamboatmodel]

Just remember Super glue was reportably developed to glue flesh together ie instant wound closure, for the USA in South east Asia. I know I have closed a couple of slices that really shod have been stitched.
Regards,
Gerald