Ever had one of those days !

[Heather Kay]

Now, provided I'm not in the way, if anything falls, from anywhere, I only intervene when it has stopped moving.

Indeed. I’ve become quite adept at the sidestep shuffle if something slips out of my hand, or rolls off the bench.

I’ve been very good recently, only accidentally jabbing the end of a finger with a scriber. The elicited a drop of blood and some naughty words.

I caught a hot soldering iron years ago, long enough that I can no longer see the scars. I also ran my thumb along a fresh No10 scalpel blade, and wondered where all the wet red stuff had come from. It didn’t hurt until I ran my thumb under the tap prior to applying a plaster.

Considering the tools and materials we use, I find injuries surprisingly rare these days. I guess we become accustomed to better working practices, and learn from our mistakes.

I’m also with Simon and Mick on the walking away before doing any more damage. It’s saved more than one build from being flight tested.

 

[ceejaydee]

...... I also ran my thumb along a fresh No10 scalpel blade, and wondered where all the wet red stuff had come from. It didn’t hurt until I ran my thumb under the tap prior to applying a plaster.

Scalpel cuts are the very devil and I've had similar experiences both at work and at home though these days I will superglue a very clean cut together.

Friday after spending all day outside cutting and assembling wood with various power tools I always thank the power that be when I end the day with all my bits attached and no cuts. Knocked my knuckle putting the last item in my shed, not a big knock but it bled, somehow managed to slice the end of my finger wide open doing the locking bolt up on the door , then smacked my index finger on an unknown sharp edge on the way to the kitchen to wash my other cuts.
At the end of the day I can live with a few minor injuries but if the day starts like that before the tools come out then I do something else.

Opened two of the cuts this morning whist dressing so no tools today but maybe some music..... shouldn't be able to cut myself playing a synth or using a sampler....

Considering the tools and materials we use, I find injuries surprisingly rare these days. I guess we become accustomed to better working practices, and learn from our mistakes.

I’m also with Simon and Mick on the walking away before doing any more damage. It’s saved more than one build from being flight tested.

Even more important to walk away in the current climate as a trip to A&E is tough enough under normal circumstances.

 

[SimonT]

Luckily when I fell 8 ft from a ladder a few weeks ago I not only managed to get rid of the ladder and loppers but also to keep my arms in. All those hours doing parachute landing training when I flew fast jets must have lodged somewhere useful in my skull.

 

[SimonT]

(Nothing else did!)

 

[mickoo]

No cock -ups on the modelling front but I was in the workshop and heard an almighty crash yesterday, sounded like two cars in the road but then realised the umbrella on the garden table had blown over taking the glass top off the table with it.
So I did what most chippy's would do I suppose found the nearest piece of timber and made a new one ......Bett thought it was very rustic

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Col.

I see your wood craft skills are improving

 

[Eastsidepilot]

I see your wood craft skills are improving

Yes, I like replicating that distressed ( Mullered ) look.
Col.

 

[Peter Cross]

My latest blood drawing, was caused by me testing a rolling set of loco frames. My test track is about 5 foot off the floor, nice height to see things.
Well I managed to catch the frames and send them to the floor. Now as they were ready for paint, without thinking I put my foot out to save them smashing. They landed front down, straight through my safety flip flops embedding into the top of my foot. .
0.018" nickel goes through skin quite easily. Then to cap it all in the same frame saving kicking action my foot hit the wall at roughly the same time as the rear of the frames, splitting my toe nail length ways down the middle, and the rear spacer of the loco.
The cleaner had her first lesson in good old Anglo Saxon.
If it ever happens again I'm stepping back and turning the soldering iron on.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Some of these incidents remind me of an old joke about the building labourer that whilst walking passed the scaffolding had a close shave when a brick missed his ear by an 1"............stoved his head in.
Col.

 

[oldravendale]

Hmmmmm! Yesterday. Fortunately it didn't involve any blood letting.

Having completed the build of the valve gear for the "King Arthur" (once again a clever set up such that the whole assembly comes away with the cylinders once the crank is unscrewed) and set up the crank on a soldered 10BA threaded bearing so that the screw (duly and carefully reduced in length) in the back of the wheel could be fixed in position I replaced wheels, coupling rod and valve gear and screwed the crank and attached bearing in to its final position through the con rod. The crank was forced off the bearing and close inspection showed that the bearing length is insufficient to go through the con rod. This must have taken considerable force as the bearing/crank interface was made with 188 degree solder.

Further inspection shows that the recess in the back of the crank to ensure that the bearing is positioned correctly is deep enough that the top hat of the bearing is sunk below the rim of the crank, thus effectively reducing the length of the bearing.

This in itself is not an issue as the joint can be remade either with some packing to bring the top hat out level with the top of the recess in the crank, or by simply filing the recess back to the same level as the top hat. However, having set up the original bearing/crank location on the wheel the chances of the new location matching exactly is somewhere between slim and nothing, so I now have to find a way of releasing the 10BA screw from the back of the wheel so that the newly made crank/bearing can be positioned properly.

I did the only thing possible - practiced some Anglo Saxon and left the workshop to its own devices. This afternoon I'll do battle with it once again.

Brian

 

[Focalplane]

One of the reasons I decided to retire was a near miss in an old quarry in the middle of the Congo. I needed a leak so stood against the wall of the quarry. While contemplating the fascinating structures made by algal stromatolites over 600 million years ago I felt a rushing by my ear and looked to my left to see a large lump of rock on the ground that hadn't been there before.

Needless to say I am of an age when geologists never wore hard hats except on oil rigs and despite modern H&E practice I still didn't. So I threw in the towel and retired. BTW, none of my family knows about this!

In the model world I have had quite a few near misses, but never so potentially lethal.

Stay safe!

 

[Lancastrian]

Going back to my youth....

Fall about 15 feet off an old railway bridge parapet, bounce and get up with hardly a scratch, but fall 6 feet into a stream and emerge with a fractured arm and suspected broken back ! There did happen to be an awful lot of bricks in that stream though !

As for cuts, handling stock sheets of glass as a glazier and regularly sliced knuckles open without feeling a thing when cutting them to size.

For modelling though, nothing beats throwing, in the literal sense, a "Home of O Gauge" S15 class locomotive kit in the bin !

Whilst using a power drill to level up a couple of Chester's baseboards last September, I managed to put a Robertson driver through my left thumb nail, that smarted a little. The damage has almost grown out now....lol.

Ian

 

[Eastsidepilot]

This thread seems to have turned into a scars comparison .....but for my offering to this as probably the worst that has happened to me was throwing a 650 Triumph Bonneville down the road after the front tyre deflated, to quickly for liking, ( more commonly known as a blow out)
Unfortunately it went down hard and fast trapping my leg under neath before I could assume the supposed crash position .

This was on the A127 arterial out of Rayleigh, once I and the bike finally stopped sliding like a puc on an ice rink I was a bit chewed up, boot and leathers ripped to shreds.
The truck driver who stopped behind and lifted the bike off me had seen the whole incident apparently as I had just over taken him at about 80, his estimate not mine.
Fortunately I didn't break anything but I couldn't stand on my left leg, and what I thought was hot oil in my boot wasn't.........still suffer with it to this day especially when it's damp outside.

Here's the offending iron horse that threw me !.......still loved it though.



Col.

 

[Scale7JB]

Talking of catching things with you legs to stop them falling.

This got slightly mangled at one point.. A few expletives aired!



JB.

 

[oldravendale]

Further to my earlier one about the crank. Sorted it this afternoon. Fitted a spacer made from a cut down crankpin bearing. The valve gear on one side runs sweet as a nut now. A drama I could have avoided if I'd thought a h e a d.

The other side should be comparatively easier as I'm now aware of the peasant traps. If it gets done tomorrow pictures will follow.

Isn't it good to be able to vent your spleen in the company of people who know exactly the joys and frustrations.

Take care.

Brian