Ok...time to show the war wounds...
While modelling what has been the worst injury you have sustained?
I caught myself with the "wrong" end of a soldering iron this weekend and it hurt like a B****. The end result...a few blisters but nothing else!
:dunce:
Quote from: lionwing on May 28, 2013, 09:55:07 AM
Ok...time to show the war wounds...
While modelling what has been the worst injury you have sustained?
I caught myself with the "wrong" end of a soldering iron this weekend and it hurt like a B****. The end result...a few blisters but nothing else!
:dunce:
Friends, I can relate to the post very well, intimately, one might say!!!
In the past couple of months I have been teaching myself to solder and I sympathise greatly with anyone who has done the same as yourself.
A month ago I was soldering quite happily until the moment I forgot what I was doing..............
The passing years have not only resulted in loss of memory and loss of teeth amongst other things! My hands also shake when I try to do anything intricate, so it is only natural for me to use two hands together to steady my shaking!
I think by this time you are already ahead of my writing!
Thats right I automatically reached across and grabbed the hot shaft of the iron, NOT my hand, and of course burnt all the insides of my fingers!
Uttering a cry of "Oh Bother!" I dropped the soldering iron which made contact with the crotch of my shorts on the way down and seared a certain part of my anatomy!
Wildly grabbing for the IRON I missed and it hit my bare foot leaving a burn across my toes!
After emitting a few choice words and standing up to inspect ALL the damage, the lights went out as the iron burnt through its own wire , short circuited and the trip switch went off.
I then stepped on the soldering iron with my other bare foot!
"Oh Bother!" I said, or words to that effect but a little more vehemently!
One day I might tell you the other story? (woodworking)
Regards, Peter.
I had a soldering iron injury a while back.
I have a gas powered soldering iron and was soldering some wires in the car. I had finished soldering and gave the iron to a friend to hold while it cooled down and I finished the tidying up.
After I had done, I grabbed the end old the iron to see if it was cold enough to put the cap on, the problem was I had not switched it off so my thumb and forefinger ended up with two enormous blisters and while they healed, life was very difficult trying to get by not using thumb and forefinger on your dominant hand.
cheers John.
Been there myself.
It's sods law that the only time you drop something and manage to catch it,it'll be the business end of of a hot soldering iron.
Allan
Not railway modeling but years ago (30+years) when i used to make Airfix Kits.
Using a scalpel with a brand new blade I managed to slice the tip off one of my fingers.
Industrial accidents are a total different ball game,I do those properly.
When I was driving for a living. Tying a steam pressure slipped and put my hand out to stop myself slipping and managed to severe the tendons in one hand (went down to the bone) on the stainless steel exhaust.
3 months off work, now limited movement in those fingers and as a result of the accident the manufacturers then put a safety lip on the top of the exhaust.
Worst I've ever done was slice over the top of a few fingers with a scalpel, nothing bad. Worst soldering iron burn I've had was nothing major either, just a little white blister on the top of my thumb.
Quote from: petercharlesfagg on May 28, 2013, 10:13:09 AM
One day I might tell you the other story? (woodworking)
Regards, Peter.
Oh my - I am sorry, Peter, but I just fell off my chair reading this so apologies if I've hurt your feelings :-[
To think, I have all this to come :worried:
Jeez, it's like the Reg Prescott appreciation society in 'ere! :laugh:
Paul
Worst injury 1956 playing soccer at school, as goalkeeper I dived to save the ball and crashed head first ibto the goal post, the result was a Fractured Skull, 12 days in hospital and six weeks off school wasn't to bad though :D .... could count for the reason I am a bit of a crackpot now :doh:
Quote from: Sprintex on May 28, 2013, 12:31:17 PM
Jeez, it's like the Reg Prescott appreciation society in 'ere! :laugh:
Paul
:smiley-laughing: :thumbsup:
Modelling related is mostly trying to trim my fingers with a scapel.
Non modelling related was treating a groin strain with ralgex. If you are ever temped - DON'T... :'(
Whilst adding some static grass a while back I managed to complete the circuit. It is amazing what 3v can do and how far and wide the grass can fly!
Gareth
worst injury, bank account/wallet with serious seasonal hemorrhaging.
not to mention an inlarged and inflamed credit card statement.
Quote from: Greybeema on May 28, 2013, 01:25:35 PM
Modelling related is mostly trying to trim my fingers with a scapel.
Non modelling related was treating a groin strain with ralgex. If you are ever temped - DON'T... :'(
Ow! Ow! Ow!
I too did just the same when I was working on the farm and slipped badly in the yard.
Got some on my "bits", nearly went through the roof!!
Regards, Peter.
Peter, your story reminds me of the old Hoffnung recording of the letter to an employer fron an employee explaining why he is not at work. It involves a building site, barrels and bricks and used to be regularly played on the radio years ago. I've not looked but I'm sure it will be on Youtube somewhere - it's well worth searching out.i
Quote from: thebrighton on May 28, 2013, 02:49:45 PM
Whilst adding some static grass a while back I managed to complete the circuit. It is amazing what 3v can do and how far and wide the grass can fly!
Gareth
Ouch! But reminds me of the warning my Physics teacher gave many (too many!) years ago - 'Volts jolt but mils (as in milliamps) can kill!' Which is maybe why the Darwin Results include those unfortunates who decided to test a 9v battery across their tongue?
:bounce:
Quote from: newportnobby on May 28, 2013, 12:29:12 PM
Quote from: petercharlesfagg on May 28, 2013, 10:13:09 AM
One day I might tell you the other story? (woodworking)
Regards, Peter.
Oh my - I am sorry, Peter, but I just fell off my chair reading this so apologies if I've hurt your feelings :-[
To think, I have all this to come :worried:
It wasn't funny at the time but I too can laugh about it now!!
You will have to go a VERY long way to hurt my feelings, 66 years on this earth teaches you to bounce!!!
Quote from: AndyGif on May 28, 2013, 03:07:49 PM
bank account/wallet with serious seasonal hemorrhaging.
That would be "withdrawal symptoms" I guess.
Quote from: cycletrak9 on May 28, 2013, 05:45:33 PM
Peter, your story reminds me of the old Hoffnung recording of the letter to an employer fron an employee explaining why he is not at work. It involves a building site, barrels and bricks and used to be regularly played on the radio years ago. I've not looked but I'm sure it will be on Youtube somewhere - it's well worth searching out.i
'The Bricklayer'. I've got it on a BBC CD - my father had it on vinyl. I don't listen to it very often, but I always end up with tears rolling down my cheeks and aching sides. Peter's story is almost in the same league.
My worst modelling injury was slicing my thumb open with a Stanley knife. The best bit is I did it again to the other thumb the next year, so I didn't learn my lesson the first time apparently.
On that note am I the only one who cringes every time I see a photo in a magazine where someone has a scalpel blade pointing toward their thumb or fingers?
Whenever I pick up a blade, there is a family rush for the first aid box, especially on caravan holidays for some reason. Worst accident I had was also at work, when dipping the tanks on an oil tanker (the smaller home delivery type). The driver was at the back, and needed to access his cab, and the steps down were at the front. As he tried to pass me, I naturally stepped back, off of the walkway and down. I managed to grab the walkway, but ended up draped over the curve of the tanker. I let go, and slid down to the ground, coating the front of my clothing with heating oil and dirt. No injury at the time, but next day, my front was red with a skin reaction to the oil, that took 5 weeks to clear and was very sore.
Blimey where do I start ;D ;D
When I was a young child on a family holiday to Blackpool (we had relations who lived in Fleetwood and my Uncle worked for a company who manufactured and serviced the slot games on the Golden mile, and so I used to get jars full of test tokens from him when I was on holiday there, but that's another story ;) ) anyway, I decided that I'd go the wrong way up the Helter-Skelter and I was collected by another kid coming down the Helter-Skelter, cue head long dive onto a concrete floor and an overnight stay in Blackpool General.
Then at the age of about 13 or 14, during a woodwork class, I decided to sand the edge of my spatula on the circular sander, well the spatula snapped and I ended up sanding my forefinger knuckle down to the bone, the end off my thumb and middle finger. It didn't hurt when I did it and to be honest I didn't even realise I'd done anything, until one of the girls pointed out that I was dripping blood everywhere and she screamed and nearly fainted when I stuffed my finger in front of her eyes and said "oh look you can see my bone moving when I bend my finger" Cue the rest of the boys in class crowding round me asking for a look ;D ;D
Age 18, dislocating my knee playing basketball during a PT lesson whilst doing Trade training at RAF Locking in 1984, then badly spraining my ankle during my Fitters course in 1989, oh and getting hit in the eye with a Uni-Hoc puck, again on my fitters course in 1989.
Since then, touching a HUGE piece of wood, nothing major. :laugh3: :laugh3:
Regards
Neal.
P.S. And my wife wonders why I don't play any sports anymore, or do exercise, not because I'm a lazy bugger, but I'm accident prone when playing sports ;) ;)
Worst modelling injury?
Other than supergluing my hand to my face (don't ask! :-[) that would have to be a knife slipping and cutting through my jeans into my thigh! :o
The skin on your thighs is like a piece of elastic and a huge gap appeared even though the cut was only small. (1.5" approx)
A trip to A&E followed with blood running down my leg whilst I sat and waited for ages. :veryangry:
Thankfully I missed any major veins and after a few dumbbells put over it and a tetanus shot I was sent home.
That was a good 17 years ago and I still have the scar!
Taught me to be careful with modelling knives...
There is not a part of my body that does not have a scar on it now (yes even there :( ) worse modelling injury was using one of those extending blade knives which caught in a piece of foam, and extended as I yanked it free, straight into my thumb leaving me with over an inch cut through which I could clearly see the joint operating. I rinsed it under the tap, dried it off and got some steri-strips from my first aid kit and patched it up. I have a very neat scar that even the practice nurse was impressed with :D
On a modelling side , Let me think . Soldering my fingers together :( , Getting hold of the wrong end of the Soldering iron , :-[ , And stabbing myself with a screw driver whilst getting a screw out of one of my baseboards now that really hurt like mad :'(
On a work side . Tripping over a Pallet that i left there and going to A&E with a suspected broken Ankle , Did not brake it only ruptured my tendons could not walk for a few weeks . The funny side is that i said that morning " The only time you would get me out of this place would be in a Ambulance" i have now learnt my lesson ( Don't think so ) :D
Cut the end off my left index finger because I let it protrude over the edge of a steel ruler while cutting plasticard, wasn't so bad except I had to back some singers at a concert with the guitar the very next day.
Quote from: longbridge on July 02, 2013, 04:02:03 AM
Cut the end off my left index finger because I let it protrude over the edge of a steel ruler while cutting plasticard, wasn't so bad except I had to back some singers at a concert with the guitar the very next day.
My Geetar hero ('Dead' Category) is Stevie Ray Vaughan. He used to slice the end off his fingers (on the guitar strings) and he used to Superglue it back on.
Also a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan here, a great loss to music when he died.
Only found out about super glueing skin back on after the concert, I had the tip of my finger handy so I could have stuck it back on.
I have glued one back on..........still couldn't play the geetar though!! :veryangry:
Quote from: FeelixTC on July 02, 2013, 12:49:59 PM
still couldn't play the geetar though!! :veryangry:
Patience and practice every day will get you there, I have been playing guitar for over 40 years and still learning ;)
cheers John.
Quote from: scotsoft on July 02, 2013, 01:08:03 PM
Quote from: FeelixTC on July 02, 2013, 12:49:59 PM
still couldn't play the geetar though!! :veryangry:
Patience and practice every day will get you there, I have been playing guitar for over 40 years and still learning ;)
cheers John.
Too late John; got the modelling bug again!
................Anyone got some shunters to swap for a Fender Stratacoustic???
Quote from: FeelixTC on July 02, 2013, 01:25:15 PM
Too late John; got the modelling bug again!
................Anyone got some shunters to swap for a Fender Stratacoustic???
I find them complementary hobbies. Guitar practice makes it easier to handle hot metal while soldering, and guitar string is a brilliant modelling material.
Unfortunately I think the wife would notice if another guitar appeared as they are harder to hide than shunters, and I don't like the Fender necks.
Alan
I have one or two (hundred). But one I still feel stupid about. I was when I first left school 45 years ago I worked as a motorcycle mechanic. I rolled one bike off its centre stand only then to remember I had taken the rear wheel out........ guess where my foot was..... right inline with then exhaust... I swore a bit...
One I witnessed was when I worked at a animal feed mill. The fitter was working on a conveyer and had to cut a link. He was using a chisel, first time he went to hit the end of chisel he missed, second time he hit it in the same place (he missed again). For the third attempt he had a thought and put his thumb over the end of the chisel...... this time he didn't miss......
Another of mine back at the motorcycle shop. We sold Calor gas for the camping trade. Well we had 28lb gas bottle two high (28lb was the weight of the gas bottle weighed a damn sight more). Well I went to put a bottle on top of another and missed again my foot was in the way. That foot isn't keen on me :laugh:
Usual nicks and cuts during modelling. When I was about 11 my mum asked me to dig up some tatties for tea. Dug up a couple of shaws and started on a third. Dirt was covering up my right foot and I stuck the grape through it. It went in between my big toe and the one next to it and out underneath the little toe.
Imagine my mothers face when I walked in the back door with a bag of spuds in one hand and a grape, which was still in my foot, in the other.
Alex :wave:
The worst model injury I had was due to my first glow engined r/c aircraft. I had just finished running it in and it was still cooling down... Then I did something rather stupid - I noticed the propeller wasn't level, so I turned it with my finger... The bloody thing started !!! :o
I broke one finger and has serious lacerations on two more, and left a trail of blood through the house as I ran to the sink !
I sold it a week later...
Quote from: 4x2 on July 02, 2013, 07:23:28 PM
The worst model injury I had was due to my first glow engined r/c aircraft. I had just finished running it in and it was still cooling down... Then I did something rather stupid - I noticed the propeller wasn't level, so I turned it with my finger... The bloody thing started !!! :o
I broke one finger and has serious lacerations on two more, and left a trail of blood through the house as I ran to the sink !
I sold it a week later...
So how much do you get for a finger these days :hmmm: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
Ah model aircraft engines, those were the days and there was nothing like a flooded diesel motor to backfire and clobber your flicking finger, my first two fingers copped a right whacking from time to time.
Don't see the old control line planes these days which is sad.
Quote from: scotsoft on July 02, 2013, 07:46:23 PM
Quote from: 4x2 on July 02, 2013, 07:23:28 PM
The worst model injury I had was due to my first glow engined r/c aircraft. I had just finished running it in and it was still cooling down... Then I did something rather stupid - I noticed the propeller wasn't level, so I turned it with my finger... The bloody thing started !!! :o
I broke one finger and has serious lacerations on two more, and left a trail of blood through the house as I ran to the sink !
I sold it a week later...
So how much do you get for a finger these days :hmmm: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:
Thanks for clearing up the confusion, John.
I thought the sink had been sold :D
Quote from: Lawrence on June 01, 2013, 10:29:49 PM
There is not a part of my body that does not have a scar on it now (yes even there :( )
Gland I am not the only one on both counts!
Lets see (Im a professional with injuries, so if your squeemish DO NOT READ)
Modeling wise, the usual finger tipping with a knife and hot end of soldering iron gave way to a fractured sternum moving a base board from one trolly to another... some time in Hospital and MANY hours of swearing later Im still hear...
Sports wise, dislocated my kneecap and testicals (yes you read it right) playing rugby... said "oh bother" and got subbed!
Work wise I was working a Pillar Drill through a 9MM steel plate, and the lad I was working with squirted the lubricant on my thumb, not the plate of steel, I lost my grip and it spun round and took an impressive slice out of the side of my thumb, through the blacksmithing gauntlets!
XD
Sorry for the long winded ones...
Sean
I've just seen my dinner again, and :no: I'm not saying which bit of the above caused it :worried:
Should have read and acted on your warning :doh:
Sorry Newportnobby, that was about the least graphic way I could think of putting it, i shall spare you all the full list! Suffice to say, there have been moments even I wonder how in gods name I am still standing!
Lesson of the day, always read the warnings :thumbsup:
Sean
P.S. I hope it wan't one of your favorite dinners you lost! :foodanddrink:
Other than having soldered my thumb, I find that the worse injury is the beating my wallet regularly takes :smiley-laughing:
1981, I was 18. I had managed, (somehow, can't remember if it was puppies or sweeties), to get a girl into my bedroom and I was in the mood to show off.
"What's that?" she asked, pointing to a 3ft chrome spring with hand grips on each end.
The item in question was a 'poor man's bullworker' (http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r774/Mitch_Kalnajs/spring_zps9eaf6743.jpeg) (http://s1366.photobucket.com/user/Mitch_Kalnajs/media/spring_zps9eaf6743.jpeg.html)
So, I picked it up and started to show off.
After a (very short!) time, I was tiring and sweating and my hands were getting slippery. Bending it with all my gusto, it finally slipped and the left hand end smacked me square under the chin. :doh:
That hurt enough, but what made it worse was that I had been in full put-everything-into-it-tongue-out-mode and I had bitten my tongue badly.
I could feel and taste the blood in my mouth, but I darent open it for fear of my tongue falling out, I thought I may have bitten right through. :-X
Happily, I hadn't.
..........sadly; the girl escaped :'(
Hitherto, happily, no injury worse than a small cut or slight burn. Today was different ! My mate and I did the last of the dismantling (wrecking ?) of the OO gauge layout to make room for the new N gauge layout. Lots of hard work because the old one was a permanent fixture using the walls as part of the structure with all fixing thereto hidden away and inaccessible.
Anyway, my foot is not broken (but feels as if it is) and Nikolai expressed extreme sorrow and apologies after dropping a very big section of removed base board on my big toe.
Have consumed quite a bit of vodka to reduce the pain and have realized how good an anesthetic any strong liquor can be. Trouble is I have to sober up to talk to SWMBO on skype - I only chose today for the work so I could get it done whilst on my own, no tut tutting and clean the mess up yourself comments. It will be done by the time she returns !
It is beginning to hurt though !
Whilst playing with a 1:1scale Canadian style canoe in France I managed to trap my finger between a passing rock /the paddle shaft and the side of the hull. The finger broke and lost most of its skin on one side. I wasn't `appy but had to carry on paddling own stream to our next camp site.
An ice lolly stick splint, some plaster tape to bind it up and quantities of red wine saw things sorted DIY style and I was just able to paddle with extra care the next day.
That was back in 1970 and the finger is still a bit bent because I never did get any proper care or treatment to sort it out
R/C model tank building saw me break a 3mm drill as it went through a casting and the remaining stub go right through the fleshy part of my right index finger close to where it becomes the hand.
SWOMBO insisted that as it was pouring blood I had to go to A&E. They pumped saline liquid in at one end of the hole and chuckled as it spurted out the other end (about 12 mm away) then insister in giving me a tetanus jab :veryangry:
All was/is well now though
Forgot my best one - despite a scar to remind me, but on the back of my leg. When I was 5, my Granny bought me a pony, but first, the paddock had to be fenced off. In 1955, it seems that old fashioned barbed wire was the way to go, so barbed wire was purchased. On the day, the new wire was laid out around the field, and the posts were being hammered in. Me, being nosy, had to go over and see what was going on. Reaching the wire, I carefully stepped over it, but caught my trailing welly boot toe on a barb, and fell over. On trying to get up, I dragged the wire forward, and cut through my right welly and my right calf. Rushed to village doctor, who opened up surgery (those were the days), and stitched up the cut. I now have a six inch long and half inch wide scar - it has grown with me! Unfortunately, I developed Ostiomylitis a few years later, probably from something picked up from the wire.
SWMBO was applying Deep Heat on my back after a Judo injury and wiped the excess on the dangly bits
You could the screams on Jupitor. An hour in the bath brought me back to earth.
Quote from: EssexN on January 06, 2015, 11:34:32 PM
SWMBO was applying Deep Heat on my back after a Judo injury and wiped the excess on the dangly bits
You could the screams on Jupiter. An hour in the bath brought me back to earth.
At least your screams were not heard on Uranus :D
Quote from: Phil Hendry on May 28, 2013, 07:04:05 PM
Quote from: cycletrak9 on May 28, 2013, 05:45:33 PM
Peter, your story reminds me of the old Hoffnung recording of the letter to an employer fron an employee explaining why he is not at work. It involves a building site, barrels and bricks and used to be regularly played on the radio years ago. I've not looked but I'm sure it will be on Youtube somewhere - it's well worth searching out.i
'The Bricklayer'. I've got it on a BBC CD - my father had it on vinyl. I don't listen to it very often, but I always end up with tears rolling down my cheeks and aching sides. Peter's story is almost in the same league.
Did you mean this :D :smiley-laughing: http://youtu.be/38v0Kj86MhA (http://youtu.be/38v0Kj86MhA)
Quote from: UPINSMOKE on January 07, 2015, 12:01:30 AM
Did you mean this
Both are priceless !
{name dropping)
The good thing about the Corries one is that I was there in Glasgow at the BBC and at the Lyceum Edinburgh when they were doing it !
and when they were
writing and doing the "Flower of Scotland" which many these days think is a traditional golden oldie !!
(/name dropping)
Wots this to do with trains
Quote from: Agrippa on January 07, 2015, 12:32:09 AM
Wots this to do with trains
Good point !
but - bothered ?
do I look , ,
U suffering a humour injury ?
FWIW: The following may be of interest.
Many years ago, I needed to open a glass bottle containing light blue aircraft paint. The lid had rusted shut. Wishing to apply pressure on the screw-type lid, I duly entered my fathers workshop (a sacrosanct and forbidden area) and placed the bottle in a vice, with the lid facing to the right.
My parents were both away at the time, so I thought I would be able to get this evidently-'simple' job done quickly; and keep out of 'trouble' while doing-so.
Using a pair of vice grips I applied pressure to the metal lid, which resisted. I then tapped the lid with a hammer 'to loosen it', before reapplying the vice grips.
There was a 'bang', the glass at the 'lid' end of the bottle exploded, with glass and paint going everywhere and, in my right thumb, a 1 inch-long and very deep gash suddenly appeared, just below the joint, the depth of the injury being indicated by the curious fact that the blood didn't gush, it merely 'bubbled' up out of the depths and very slowly at that. I had never seen blood do that; it reminded me of an oil or volcanic mud 'seep', with the 'bubble' just 'popping' when it rose above the injury. The 'cut' had light blue edges; the same colour as the paint in the bottle.
At that point my parents returned!!
A mad, frantic tidy-up, then out of the workshop quick-smart 'just in time'. The remains of the bottle (sharp edges and all) was wrapped up in a handkerchief that was fortuitously in my pocket, and everything was (at least to outside appearances) 'normal'.
I later managed to use the paint, but on checking the bottle to make sure that I hadn't left any 'incriminating evidence' behind, I found one piece of glass to be missing, and a recheck of the workshop floor didn't locate it. I had (and still have) no idea where it had gone. Curiously, it was the piece in direct line with my thumb; and the injury...
After my parents' return, nothing was said, although my Father later asked why there was paint on the workshop floor. My reply that I was 'flying' a glider and it went in by itself' (a not uncommon occurrence at the time) seemed to satisfy him.
Since the 'adults' couldn't be told, nothing was done about the injury - the blood just kept on 'bubbling' and eventually, after the application of several Band Aids and a few painful weeks, the body healed itself. The adults never knew...
The scar (all white and obvious) is still there, and even now, over 50 years later, on very cold winter days, it can be quite painful.
A sliver of glass buried deep within the extremity? I don't know, but it would seem to be a distinct possibility. 'The effects of actions past'...
As I said, FWIW. It is not perhaps the usual way of inflicting injury on oneself.
Thanks.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.... If i had a pound for every time I concealed an injury from the authorities I'd be well off !!! I got busted many times when my attempts to 'keep the wound clean and it'll heal' theory failed and a trip to the doc's followed.... At least now I'm quite good with a scalpel - after all, practice makes perfect !
Quote from: MalcolmAL on January 07, 2015, 12:37:39 AM
Quote from: Agrippa on January 07, 2015, 12:32:09 AM
Wots this to do with trains
Good point !
but - bothered ?
do I look , ,
U suffering a humour injury ?
Agrippa is right actually, this should have been moved to General Discussion long ago since it's not really N Gauge specific. However, a press on the 'report to Moderator' button with a note would have been preferable to just a blunt question.
Paul
Quote from: Sprintex on January 07, 2015, 04:59:41 AM
Agrippa is right actually,
And me actually ! Did I not already conceed that when I said "Good point" !!!!
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preferable to just a blunt question.
Quite so. :claphappy:
OK after reading all these accidents can anyone answer me this simple question?
Am I going to be safe modeling? having a go rebuilding a layout to be my first and some rolling stock too and by the sounds of it I will be safer at work and in my job that's something to be said!!
My worst injury was when I was 13 at school in Birmingham, I was the goal keeper in a soccer match and dived for the ball but head butted the goal post, I spent 12 days in hospital with a fractured skull and had 6 weeks off school, I very often wonder if it effected my brain because I haven't been the same since :doh: it didn't help that I had a dopey carpenter drop a house brick on my head from 8ft above, more stitches :doh: :D
I've inflicted a multitude of scalpel related injuries upon my person in my pursuit of modelling pleasure. My favourite was when I wisely decided to use my thigh as a resting block for a piece of styrene that I was cutting...plastic gave way and scalpel entered thigh vertically to the hilt. The funniest thing then happened when I pulled the blade out, it didn't bleed at all and I barely felt it, I must have sat there for half a minute just staring at the hole in my trousers...then I stood up. Took a while to stem the flow! Bournville has left its mark too, when I was trimming the cork underlay the scalpel blade snapped and the resulting shard sliced into my middle fingertip to the bone.
My worst injury of all though is a DAI, sustained 11 years ago when the car I was a passenger in decided to have an argument with a bridge parapet near head on at 'above motorway speeds'. I consider myself one of the lucky ones that didn't end up in a coma, but the damage incurred to my brain has left me with symptoms almost identical to Aspergers syndrome.
I have had a few accidents over the years, but the silliest was cleaning a lawn mower. I balanced on its handle and cleaned the crud off the cylinder of blades. I then pressed the trigger with my foot to spin it round. The torque of the motor caused it to overbalanced and I put my hand out to stop it falling. 2 finger ends disappeared into the grass. I had to drive to the Accident Hospital (we had one then) to get it seen to. They dressed the wounds and asked if I had had a tetanus shot recently. I said I hadn't . When I awoke the next morning, one arm had swollen so it resembled Popeye's. I had forgotten that I had a booster about 3 months previously, after my previous accident. The worst part was the large number of crows that gathered on the garden fence every time I went out to mow the lawn.
Malc you do know that you can buy wild bird food in supermarkets and pet shops it might be a little less painful for you if not your bank balance.
Hope you are fit and well now and have learnt to unplug the mower BEFORE making any adjustments or cleaning .
Bob
Quote from: Bob Tidbury on January 08, 2015, 12:17:32 PM
Malc you do know that you can buy wild bird food in supermarkets and pet shops it might be a little less painful for you if not your bank balance.
:laugh:
Paul
Ok worset injury ive had was slicing my thumb open with a knife, was building a Airifx Messerschmitch Bf109-e3 and cutting the wings out, and as always i cut towards me, put to much force on the knife and the it slipped and decided to cut my thumb open with a nice cut, so i went wrapped it in a tissue to try ang clog it, then put a plaster on, and went back to wrking on the model
another one was years ago when i was building a GMC truck kit by airfix, ans superglued my thumb and index fingure togeather,
then another superglue incident, i was helping my dad make a model slipway 1:24 fishing boat and i dropped superglue on my jeans, i said argh my aunts gonna kill me, he said, why, i spilled superglue on my jeans, i said, he turned round and said itll burn, no it wont i said, this was quickly replied by me with AARRRGGHHHHH YOU BU$$3R and it did burn a bit
as for non modeling injures, i went speedway when i was a kid, and saw some older kids runniong behind the cow shed, (grandstand) so i copied and ran head first in to a brick wall and bust my nose, another from when i was kid, was when i first used a iron, and wanted to see if it ws hot so i put my right hand ahaisnt it and soon found out it was hot, and had large blister for a few days
also sprained my left wrist in primary school whihc was a b$££$@r for me as im left handed, so kinda fell ebhind on work (plus i was eaisly distracted so behind anyways)
list is endless for me, but mainly cuts, brusises, and superglued hands
Mark