Injury...Dr. .... run....wife.....humor

Thanks for the laugh! I hope you weren't damage when you were derailed.

Old age is not for wimps.

Pete

Home alone.....nurse wife had a job out of town at the time. 

Working on model trains.....decided it was time to try some new Japanese made #11 hobby blades.....claimed to be worlds sharpest. (see where this is going?)

Long story short......ER doctor said it was the cleanest cut from wrist to thumb tip he had ever seen. Being in a area with lots of commercial logging he was happy NOT to dig out dirt and saw dust. 

Lessons learned:

Even in summer time do not work on models in shorts only. Difficult to get dressed with one hand while bleeding.

Let wife know what happened BEFORE she gets home and thinks you were eaten by the cats. (blood everywhere but you are missing)

I did get a great scar that I can always one up other with. 

Dave; OUCH! 

I'm lucky.  Worst I did was lay my arm across a hot soldering gun and bang my head a few times under the layout.

Dennis

I was working on a B&D electronic drill trigger with a small flat blade screwdriver.  It slipped and went through my middle finger.  Had the wife pull it out and I kept pressure on it while she got dressed.

Meanwhile i laid down on the floor and got interested in the TV program.   When she came back i asked if we could wait till the program was finished before goung to ER.  

I have never lived that story down 20 yrs later.

the worst part about being bald, smacking your hear under the layout, bleeding, and everyone can see it. When I remember it I do wear a cap underneath.

Dick

People should not be cracking jokes at us old guys .....We might do something drastic. We're already ****ed off that were old. hahahahaha. Nick

Onward towards the fog...

Since I recently beat cancer, I figure getting old is better than the alternative.  Cheers,       BK

rockstars1989 posted:

People should not be cracking jokes at us old guys .....We might do something drastic. We're already ****ed off that were old. hahahahaha. 

I'm not ****ed off that I'm old, just surprised.  

What, me worry? 

A fellow model builder who I was working with was working on a delicate part on a workbench, his Exacto knife rolled off the bench toward his lap, his instinct was to stick his legs together to stop the fall.  I heard, Hay John Come here, which I did. he showed me the knife sticking between his legs buries to the top of the blade.  That cost him a tetanus shot at the local emergency care but no stitches only a band aid and a lot off ridicule at the shop.  

Many years ago I was working on my model railroad, cleaning up the wiring and soldering connections which were previously only twisted together.  The phone rings and I put the soldering iron down on the carpet to go answer the phone.  I am bare footed by the way.  When I come back I step squarely on the hot iron burning my foot right to the bone.  Dr said I would be able to see the impression from the tip retention screw on any future x-rays of my foot.  Worst part was I was going on vacation to Mexico the next day!

I did go, but I hobbled everywhere and my then girlfriend was not impressed.

Rolland

Don't ask me how I know that Super Glue works really well to seal up small (or large) wounds as long as the edges are clean.  I usually do small repairs myself as my wife makes me go to the ER when if I try to enlist her help.  That really cuts into my train time.

Chris Sheldon

I always thought that Exacto/utility knife blades were like the traditional Gurkha kukri knife - they must taste blood before being re-sheathed, no?

Worst injury building a model railroad.  I am still weeping...

Fun thread.  Thanks.

FireOne posted:

Don't ask me how I know that Super Glue works really well...

I keep CA/SuperGlue in the garage as a staple. Gel & regular as the need demands. I just cannot be bothered to run for the sink/antiseptic/bandages when a 15 second solution is so close at hand.

Super Glue does not work with electricity though, my wife likes to make the "zzzzzzzzzzzz" sound whenever she sees me working on anything electrical.  She has scared the crap out of me a few times.  We laugh afterwards.

Chris Sheldon

Well, Super Glue was originally designed as a surgical adhesive.  Indeed, when I had my gall bladder laparoscopically removed a few years ago, they just glued the little holes shut, no stitching needed!  

As for hobby related injuries, apart from the occasional soldering iron scorch and X-Acto nick, I've been fortunate.   

Just don't get me started on Boy Scout camp.  Crosscut saws STILL make me nervous,  40+ years later... 

Mitch 

Hmmm, after 4 heart surgeries and 3 cancer ops, the occasional blood letting while working on the layout doesn't warrant any bragging rights. 

Ed

The tops of my thighs have a few scars and one might conclude that I had bad acne as a teenager.

What I really had was bad judgment as a teenager, not bad acne.  I would sit on the basement floor under the layout, wearing cutoffs in the summer, happily soldering wires above my head on the underside of the layout.

I somehow failed to remember (on several occasions) that molten solder drips, especially when you put on too much in a fit of boyhood enthusiasm.  Flux makes it adhere to your skin pretty well, too.

At least I was able to share with my mom the new words I'd learned on the playground...

Steven J. Serenska

Shorts and motorcycle exhaust pipes don't work well together, either, as a burn scar on my left calf will attest... 

Mitch 

Hope all is well!

I have been to ER twice for metal shavings coming up under my safety glasses and cutting my eye...

When I was about 14 years old I was working using a X-Acto knife. I was in a hurry and wanted to move something using both hand so I had this bright idea to put the knife backwards into my pants pocket. For got about it for a bit and brought my arm down hitting the blade. The blade went in all the way and all I did was to pull it out and watch the blood. Put some masking tape on it and went back to work. Still have that scare today and I m 66 years old.

The other thing in rebuilding a prewar 158 (about a year as so ago) was to use spray tuner cleaner to clean the armature and brushes out with the spray. I had the great idea in doing this while I had jumpers going to the motor power by a transformer. Y eh clean it out when it is running  (smart idea?).
No, this was not my best idea as the tuner cleaner is highly combustible and the brushes do make sparks.
The whole thing erupted in flames as I was trying to blow it out. SHHHH! did this at work 
Nothing happened and all ended good, just real clean just burnt around the edges.