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ericwolf 07-07-2006 03:40 PM

Eye Protection
 
I'll fess up to a rather strange incident from some time ago. Let me start out by saying that I always wear my safety glasses & hearing protection when using power tools. I was deburring the edge of a skin with a hand deburring tool and a chunk of aluminum flew into my eye. After a couple of hours it finally came out and was amazed by how large it was.

Be careful in flying and building.

Jekyll 07-07-2006 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by vmirv8bldr
Side-grip Cleco clamps.

This one takes two times to learn. While constructing the empennage, I got in a hurry removing side-grip cleco clamps. I don't remember the actual part. As I removed the clamp, I placed it in my free hand before completely releasing pressure on the pliers. These things are VERY strong. It gave me a nice thick blood blister. I thought to myself, "Wow. That was dumb. Try not to do it again." I bet it wasn't 10 minutes later, I did it again, although not as bad. No blood blister the second time. Since then, it has not happened again. (Fingers crossed!)

I told my dad, who's helping' about my incident. He laughed, then procedded to do the exact same thing himself...twice in ten minutes.

Laugh now, but you've either already done it, or probably will.

This is hillariously funny but I just have to ask, how deep does this syndrome run in your blood line? :D
Do you have kids and if so, do they have clamps hanging from thier hands? :D

It took me a minute to crawl up from the floor to the keyboard.

(I've done it once myself)

Jekyll

AntiGravity 07-07-2006 04:21 PM

Models
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ericwolf
I'll fess up to a rather strange incident from some time ago. Let me start out by saying that I always wear my safety glasses & hearing protection when using power tools. I was deburring the edge of a skin with a hand deburring tool and a chunk of aluminum flew into my eye. After a couple of hours it finally came out and was amazed by how large it was.

Some years ago, when I used to build models, I needed to glue a small piece of ply reinforcement above the wire undercarriage legs inside the fuselage. I got cyano onto the piece and was putting it in when I dropped it. Of course, it glued instantly in the wrong place. So out came the screwdriver to pry it back up. Access inside the fuselage was limited. It went ping, and something hit me in the eye. It was a small 1mm square piece of ply laminate that was now superglued smack in the middle of my eye!! Trip to the hospital, 'cos I wasn't going to touch it!! Four hours sitting in the 'emergency' waiting room (typical for the UK) by which time it had disappeared. Fallen/washed out most likely. Eye was all good so got sent home. Still hate safety goggles: for some reason they either steam up. And foreign objects still find their way around safety glasses. I do wear them sometimes though, for particularly hazardous jobs...

fodrv7 07-07-2006 07:31 PM

Deburr
 
Whilst drilling a bit for the fuse I manage to drill #40 bit straight into my index finger to the bone.
I SMS (Messaged) a mate that production had temporarily ceased and why.
Received a message back; "Finger should be deburred, dimpled and primed."
Sympathy?
Pete.

JimP 07-07-2006 08:48 PM

What's that smell?
 
While in the early stages of trimming the plastic off a wing skin rivet line, I picked up a very hot soldering iron, from the hot end! Before the brain registered the pain, I'm thinking "gee, what's the sizzling sound", followed by "that's an interesting smell.." Followed immediately, after the neurons caught up, by "!(@#$&(%!!!,,,,@#$%(*!!!.

Man, that was fun :D

fpeebles 07-07-2006 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by JimP
While in the early stages of trimming the plastic off a wing skin rivet line, I picked up a very hot soldering iron, from the hot end! Before the brain registered the pain, I'm thinking "gee, what's the sizzling sound", followed by "that's an interesting smell.." Followed immediately, after the neurons caught up, by "!(@#$&(%!!!,,,,@#$%(*!!!.

Man, that was fun :D

BEEN THERE DONE THAT! Worse part is when you drop the iron and for some stupid reason catch the iron with what will soon be the other bad hand.


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