Stupidest injury

As a younger lad, fixing bed side table light, getting dark so turned light on . . . . . .

Later in life fitting new light rose in fathers garage, Dad says "let me turn the light on Son" . . . . .

Then did it myself again, working on the boat, just a bit of wiring, needed to see the last bit, so turned the light on and shorted the entire boat . . . . .

I am quite good really, just my hair that stands on end . . . .

Simes
 
Simes said:
As a younger lad, fixing bed side table light, getting dark so turned light on . . . . . .

Later in life fitting new light rose in fathers garage, Dad says "let me turn the light on Son" . . . . .

Then did it myself again, working on the boat, just a bit of wiring, needed to see the last bit, so turned the light on and shorted the entire boat . . . . .

I am quite good really, just my hair that stands on end . . . .

Simes
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Just married ,couldn't afford a TV,still had hair---

Radio packs in.ok . take back off spot broken wire .Holding screwdriver,say to admiring wife "Look, that's what's wrong" ---and touched it with the screwdriver.DOH!!
 
Making a 90 degree joint between a couple of pieces of plywood, and wanted to pin the pieces together to hold them while the glue set....

10mm ply plywood...

40mm brads...

Air powered brad nailer...

Just hold the pieces together with one hand...

While...









...I nail the bloody (literally) plywood to it.

The brad actually came out the other side of my finger, but doesn't seem to have done any permanent damage.

Not my finest hour. :o

Andy
 
Using a double sided carpet knife for the first time. Warning given, "These are very sharp and totally unforgiving". 15 minutes later on a complex cut i put my finger on the 'back' of the blade for extra pressure! Warning 100% accurate! Superglue stings!
 
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jimi said:
I'm now typing with my pinkie cos I've just picked up the wrong end of a soldering iron!
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I used to spend some of my time in schools, leading children through projects which involved a morning of soldering. The worst accident came when two kids reached for an iron nearly simultaneously: the first got it out the stand and the second, fractionally later, held it firmly like a pencil, just as I had shown them ... by the tip.

When something like this happens the pain sensors are so overwhelmed that the body goes into defensive shock, which means he didn't drop it for about two seconds. Prompt treatment luckily meant the burn wasn't nearly as bad as it looked ... or smelled. Like a barbecue.
 
Rewired all the sockets in the house, wife and kids had gone away for the weekend, finished the ring main, switched on, checked all the sockets, all OK then went to fix the other end of the ring main into the consumer unit but didn't switch off first ............................. I jumped!
 
spent 5 minutes putting a really keen edge on a chisel only to later absent-mindedly pick up the sharp end. Bless you elastoplast..... if only they stuck to bloody fingers for more than 2 minutes.
 
go for the spray on stuff. you need the normal elastoplast for the first 5 minutes to absorb and stem the blood flow. After that, chuck it away, and spray the plastic skin stuff on.
 
jimi said:
I'm now typing with my pinkie cos I've just picked up the wrong end of a soldering iron!
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Last time I did that (on the boat) I went through every (5 off) freezer pack that we use to bring the fridge down to temp on arrival. I was still crying like a baby.

I think it was more a burn from the gas filament than the iron. I have burnt myself loads on irons (trade) but this time I really did pay for it. Full sympathy.
 
My dad decided I was not 'mechanically minded' when I tried to avoid holding vrious bits of wire and metal after he had (inadvertently) rested a very large old soldering iron on my wrist.
 
Sitting on a bench in the gym, knees apart doing bicep curls with small dumbell. End of set and knackered so allow dumbell to twist...bottom collar comes off..weight is now 50% less..dumbell comes up and end of bar punches 3 top teeth out...hurts..plastic teeth now..and I double check the collars..:D :D
 
As a young twenty year old I had good fast reactions, so while TIG welding HP turbine blades held in a small vice I turned around, caught the vice with the torch leads,,,,,, quick as a flash grabbed it before it hit the floor, lifted it up and put it back on the bench. :eek:

The company nurse burst the blisters and used that spray on skin, ,,,, ever since I've always jump out of the way of anything dropped!!
 
Bad Habit

Whenever I cut my hand I have a very bad habit of sticking the cut in my mouth, which I know is totally unsanitary.
However, for sheer stupidity this takes some beating... Once long ago I was making some lockwashers for re-assembling an A/C compressor, these were equilateral triangles about 40mm of a side with 3 holes in them, stupidly I cut them to shape from shim stock before trying to drill the holes, even more stupidly I then tried holding them in my hands while drilling them in a big drill press, as some mitigation, but mainly because I was showing a local trainee how to do this I was actually wearing a face shield while operating the drill press. Needless to say as soon as the drill penetrated the stock it snatched the metal from my hands slicing my finger end with surgical precision down to the bone, it didn't really hurt as the metal was razor sharp, but as was my bad habit I immediately stuck my finger in my gob - or rather I would have done if I hadn't still been wearing the face shield.
According to the trainee I went quite grey when I splatted blood across the shield... :o:D
 
Well, if you want to feel like a real p*rick, sail repair has a lot going for it.

Gets me every single time and because the entry wound is so small, there is very little sympathy available, just giggles.
 
The old trick for me was trying to catch a soldering iron that had fallen from it's holder.

We were always taught NEVER EVER try and catch it, but the other side of the brain comes into play and you give it a go :-)

If your lucky you miss.

I suppose it's one of the advantages of getting old - the reactions are slower so it falls to the floor nowadays :-)
 
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