So, what is your worst hobby accident that ended up with injury to your person?
Mine is this, while I was cutting some styrene sheets with my hobby saw… I was bracing at a bad angle, and the saw cut through the shett, and it also cut deep into the tip of my finger. I did this TWICE
There was a thread on this topic awhile back…
I severed the tendon on top of my left index finger with a circular saw in my Foredom. I was in a hurry = I was stupid.[D)]
That sounds painful.
I have long, curly, wild hair… I got it caught in my dremel once, I had to cut a hunk of hair out of my head because I couldnt get it knotted after I got it off the dremel.
I would have to say that my biggest screw up was when I was taking a build ,I just finished to a show and in the doorway I dropped it, smashing everything I worked on for so long, granted it wasn’t my best build, but it was a build and it cut me to the bone mentally. I do have a happy ending to the story, the second model I took received most popular model, ( which to me is the best you can get) when other builders vote for yours as the best, especially when in my opion there was better builds there.
Yea, getting the modeler’s vote for best kit is the best thing. Its like doog’s thread about best in show, so what he ddint get a prize (other then a trophy) he had the best model there
My worst was as a teenager working on a model car kit. After realizing that I had glued on a cylinder head backwards, I had to figure out a way to separate the parts. I knew my hobby knife wasn’t up to task, so I opted for a double-edged boot knife. When that baby let go and the parts separated, I buried that knife into my hand. Forgot how many stitches I received, but I wasn’t able to build for quite a while after that.
It’s embarrasing to say the least. I was 10ish and I tried to get a lid off of a paint jar. Well, let’s say I used a poorly thought out idea of using a vise to open it. [:O] Yeah? You’re thinking what an idiot and you are correct. Of course the glass shattered and pierced my hand. I couldn’t stop the bleeding, so my father took me to the emergency room and I received three stitches. Wow, what an idiot indeed. My sister to this day, still loves to bring that up in front of people I know. I have no idea why she does it, but I’d like to slug her.
Knock on wood[banghead] I’ve never had a serious injury. But when I was about 11 or 12 I was doing the Revell Kittyhawk carrier. Couldn’t get the lid off the jar so I took a pair of pliers and promptly launched the now open jar from chest to knees I was covered in blue paint. Did I mention I didn’t have ashirt on. Got my first paint thinner scrub down after that one.
I aways work careful so I have had just some minor cuts. Or things like sanding my nails off whilst trying to sand a vacform part. The most painfull probably was getting a piece of plastic in my eye whilst using my dremel. Always have safety goggels on when you are using a Dremel!!!
Worst personal injury accident? Ran the steel cutter in my Dremel across the nail on my left thumb while it was going about flank speed… It clipped the edge and buried itself under my nail… Ouchie…
Worst screw-up that could have resulted in total loss of house & home? About 35 years ago I poured some resin “water” for a Monogram Kingfisher (yeah, it was an old kit then, too) diorama and wanted it to cure a bit faster than the last pour, so I doubled the amount of hardener, and headed downstairs to eat lunch… All of a sudden I heard m’ mom screech from upstairs and ran up there to find the entire upstairs completelt dark with soot, impossible to see, and made my way into room where I discovered the merry little bonfire of my dio, model, and desk on fire…
The catalyst I used too much of caused the resin to generate so much heat that it set the model, and consequently the desk, on FIRE!
Luckily, the only real damage was to my room and the hallway from soot, but it coulda been a helluva lot worse… Oh, yeah… And I was grounded from using chemicals in my room, too… Or anywhere else, for that matter…
Well hans, congradulations. I dont know any modeler who can claim to have set their house on fire.
Johnny, I dont know a good modeler who doesnt have atleast 1/8th of his body coated in some sort of paint. Get this, the BOTTOM of my freaking foot has paint on it!
And tiger, your just lucky you didnt get all that paint into the cut in your hand, that owuld be baaaad.
It heartens me no end to see that I’m not the only one who has lots of experience, knows better, and still occasionally does incredibly stupid things. Some of my friends have called such malfs “brain farts,” or perhaps a better term would be “brain backfires.”
“Please engage brain before putting body in motion.”
[banghead]
I open paint jars with a vise and pliers all the time and haven’t had any problems and hope to continue that trend.
I didn’t get hurt, but my dad did. Somebody at my LHS kindly made a plexiglass case for me. One of the edges was a bit small, and I tried to cut up the seam to loosen it, but I couldn’t get it. so my dad comes down and tries to help me. Unfortunately, he slices his thumb with the exacto knife. He’s fine now, and the seam was cut!
Nothing more than the standard “Exacto knife blade-bury” in a finger…knock on wood…?[:-^]
I was grinding down some steel rod with a 5" grinding wheel when my hand slipped and I ground away about 1/8" of my right thumb. Bled all day, went to the hospital that night to get it checked out, and the doc said he had to probe for metal slivers and to let me know if it hurt. I felt fine after I regained consciousness, about 30 seconds after he hit a few nerves. [;)]
Ouch! If a doctor ever says ‘check for metal fragments’ Im going to get ‘get the electro magnet’
Same here, smeagol! I mean, everything was going fine - he just kept asking “does this hurt? How about this then?”, and I kept saying “nope, everything’s cool”, until one last poke and it was lights out immediately. I never saw it coming!
The one I remember the most happened the winter of '55 or '56. In those days, Disney land came on at 630 pm on Saturday nights. That particular night, they were doing a show from Future Land, and I decided I was going to build a model rocket based on the show subjects. So while mom and dad got ready to go to a party at the country club (a weekly thing), I laid out some newspapers in front of the tv, got a fairly large block of rather hard balsa and my Exacto knife and settled in. About 10 minutes into the show (and dividing my attention between the tv and the block of balsa), my knife slips and cuts my left hand to the bone in the ball just below the thumb. Blood going everywhere (thankfully only on the news paper). Being a kid and knowing I’m in trouble, I head for the kitchen, figuring that if I run cold water over the cut, it will stop the bleeding (lots of luck, I was finding out what the expression “bleeding like a stuck hog” means) and mom won’t suspect a thing.
Of course, mom hits the kitchen about thirty seconds after I do, (little brothers have such big mouths), and yes she’s not happy. Upshot is that 45 minutes later I’m again seated in front of the television - with the hand bound up with bandages and 6 stitches I didn’t have an hour previously - and the folks still made it to the party on time.
Been there, done that. Threw the nurse who was holding my leg down across the table, but I only grunted. The doctor’s comment? “I guess that hurt a bit.”
To which the nurse replied: “Yes, it did!”
I’m surprised Daywalker has not told on me yet but a few months ago I was in the shop with no shoes on. I was useing some ca and yes I glued my foot to the floor.
Lets just say I think some skin is still on the shop floor.
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