Just remembered! I have suffered some intense nosebleeds and a cut or two from knife blades in the past.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Just to add to the already interesting stories, I was busily ripping plywood for bench work and not paying attention when the tip of my index finger passed close enough to the saw blade that the tip was removed.After I realized how stupid I was I took myself to the local ER. I explained what happened to the triage nurse who looked at me with a stern expression and said "Oh we get a couple of these a week". Luckily I didn't do any damage to the bone and I'm left with flat ended index finger on my left hand.
Joe
I've been cut, burned, bruised, and even overcome with noxious fumes, and shocked all in the name of the hobby!
Let's just say that if you aren't careful, and you have a Fastrack floor layout, the track may turn on you. I got a connector pin in my palm because of simply slipping of my feet on floor, and my hand hit the connecting pin of said track.
Like gondola1988, I've been doing floor covering since the late 70's. Still at it. In the old days there were many mishaps. Now my injuries come elsewhere. Like scraping areas on my layout to ready scenery and laying my knuckles wide open on a section of n scale track. Takes forever to heal. So now I will wear a glove in the same situation.
But I have never dropped a live power tool in my lap. In boxers. Thread winner there!
Be well, scookam
bogp40 CTValleyRR twhite X-acto knife + wooden car kit=Slice and Dice. I always keep a plasma bag and an IV tube handy. Tom A propos of nothing whatsoever, it IS possible to fasten your hand to the underside of your layout with a heavy duty staple if you're not paying attention. Owwwwwch!! Stapling it there is bad enough, but getting pliers/ cutter to free it is the worst part.
CTValleyRR twhite X-acto knife + wooden car kit=Slice and Dice. I always keep a plasma bag and an IV tube handy. Tom A propos of nothing whatsoever, it IS possible to fasten your hand to the underside of your layout with a heavy duty staple if you're not paying attention.
twhite X-acto knife + wooden car kit=Slice and Dice. I always keep a plasma bag and an IV tube handy. Tom
X-acto knife + wooden car kit=Slice and Dice. I always keep a plasma bag and an IV tube handy.
Tom
A propos of nothing whatsoever, it IS possible to fasten your hand to the underside of your layout with a heavy duty staple if you're not paying attention.
Owwwwwch!! Stapling it there is bad enough, but getting pliers/ cutter to free it is the worst part.
And it's even worse when you're alone in the basement with said pliers out of reach, and you have to yell for a couple of minutes before someone notices....
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
Feel your pain, once stapled my thumbnail w/ a hammer tacker. Not only the blow of the hammer smashing but drove the staple through the nail. Pliers in my nail bag, but yanking it out of the nail/ stud was #*%#***&!!
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Been there, done that. Have 4" scar on my left thigh as a reminder of what not to do.
For THIS hobby, however, I haven't yet been to the emergency room, although the burns, cuts and scrapes have been legion.
Just like the rest of us, I have had my share of the cuts, burns and Glue jobs. I save the real pain for my work. Been a carpenter for over 40 years. I have had close calls and a few bad cuts, but still have all digits and want to stay that way. I have a lot of respect for this equipment, seen many, many serious injuries over the years. My FIL lost his lt hand while working on a Radial arm, tragic ordeal. I have that in mind every time I pull the trigger on any of my tools....
BroadwayLion The LION was cutting some lumber in the carpentry shop. A good place to cut lumber if ever I saw one, keeps the dust out of the train room! Well now, you must know that the LION majored in industrial arts while in high school, so at least he knew where the ON switch for the table saw was. Him was cutting lumber that had been stored in the barn since the science building was torn down. Some of it had splinters as long as railroads spikes and some of it had organic matter on it that looks like it came from, well, a barn. The LION was wearing WORK GLOVES! The glove got too close to the saw blade. The LION let out a BLUE ROAR, the other guy in the shop almost wet his pants. I gingerly took off the work glove, expecting to see a missing finger, but nary a scratch, so like any good model railroader I put the glove back on and went back to work ripping lumber for my layout. But something was not right, so I called the hospital next door, and of course being a nurse I knew the nurse on duty quite well, and I explained about the saw and the glove, and already she had in her minds eye a picture of a LION bringing a bag full of furry claws into the ER, but no, I told here I think I broke something. So I went in and had x-rays, and yes something was broken, and she gave me a splint and told me to see the orthopedic surgeon on Monday. I'll not say the the surgeon kissed it and made it all better, but he did not do much else for it either, except provide a more uncomfortable splint. At least I got out of doing dishes for a few weeks. ROAR
The LION was cutting some lumber in the carpentry shop. A good place to cut lumber if ever I saw one, keeps the dust out of the train room!
Well now, you must know that the LION majored in industrial arts while in high school, so at least he knew where the ON switch for the table saw was. Him was cutting lumber that had been stored in the barn since the science building was torn down. Some of it had splinters as long as railroads spikes and some of it had organic matter on it that looks like it came from, well, a barn. The LION was wearing WORK GLOVES!
The glove got too close to the saw blade. The LION let out a BLUE ROAR, the other guy in the shop almost wet his pants. I gingerly took off the work glove, expecting to see a missing finger, but nary a scratch, so like any good model railroader I put the glove back on and went back to work ripping lumber for my layout.
But something was not right, so I called the hospital next door, and of course being a nurse I knew the nurse on duty quite well, and I explained about the saw and the glove, and already she had in her minds eye a picture of a LION bringing a bag full of furry claws into the ER, but no, I told here I think I broke something. So I went in and had x-rays, and yes something was broken, and she gave me a splint and told me to see the orthopedic surgeon on Monday.
I'll not say the the surgeon kissed it and made it all better, but he did not do much else for it either, except provide a more uncomfortable splint.
At least I got out of doing dishes for a few weeks.
ROAR
And you were wearing gloves around spinning saw blades for ????, or is it to keep the hairy "pawz" from snagging in those spinning teeth.....Well glad you didn't leave any parts in the glove!
Medina1128It's just part of the sacrifices to the hobby gods.
When I was heavily involved with live steam .........there was a running joke that if you took a chicken and swung it over your head three times it was suppose to bright good luck for the run day..............and free lunch.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
When two of the most widely used tools for our hobby are a razor sharp knife and a drill used to install screws with very sharp points, blood WILL be shed. It's just part of the sacrifices to the hobby gods.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
I have poked, stabbed, cut, slashed and burned myself.
I have marked, painted, enameled, stained and glued myself.
I have shocked, soldered and pinched myself.
I have even had weathering powders blown into my eyes {DON'T ever put weathering powders between you and a FAN {OR window AC blower}}.
Shed blood for this hobby?
Certainly.
Among other things I have done {and may do} to myself.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
The LION made a big post all about soldering irons, and everybody laughed at him, but they also violated LION RULE NO. 1 : Look at the soldering iron before you pick it up.
And the poor lion suffers from neuropathy so it takes him a moment to figure out that he has touched something hot.
Always treat the soldering iron with respect, and if you drop it DO NOT TRY TO CATCH IT.Of course you do not want it to land on your lap, so you had better be quick at jumping out of the way.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Oh NOW he tells me.....
--Randy
rdgk1se3019 Just keep in mind.......this is not a hobby in which you want to sit naked at your work/model bench.
Just keep in mind.......this is not a hobby in which you want to sit naked at your work/model bench.
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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I can't remember them all, the last one was touching the wrong end of the soldering iron. But at one time or another, several times actually, I have cut myself, smashed my thumb, glued myself, burned myself, buzzed a little electricity, and probably some other things as well.
Fortunately, none of them have done any lasting damage. I am a big fan of safety equipment and I have found it works even better if you use it.
Be safe
Paul
Just shed some about 30 minutes ago cleaning some scissors I used to cut up some lichen. Two nice slices on thumb and forefinger. Oh well, CA to the rescue
John R.
Not naked but I was wearing boxer shorts late one night when I fumbled the dremel tool running at full speed with a deburr bit into my lap.
I think you get the picture...
Randy
SUX V R40 Rider So do tell your stories of bleeding for this hobby.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Let's see
Drilled my fingers? Check
Cut fingers or hands? Check
Grinder debris in the eyes? Check
Grabbed a soldering iron by the wrong end? Check (just last week!)
Dripped hot solder on myself soldering under the layout? Check
Had a Dremel slip and contact flesh while still at speed? Check
Fingers glued together or to a project? Check
Rolling Exacto knife rols off of workbench to land blade down in your shoe? Check
Lucky that all these did not require professional "repairs". Just the wife with a 1st aid kit. Gotta love it!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Some things I have learned:
Why that last one? The last bloodletting injury I had involved making waybills for my car card/waybill car distribution system.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - as safely as possible)
cjcrescent BroadwayLion LION does not use X-acto blades. Him uses real (sterile) surgical blades that are about 1/10th the price of the hobby shop variety, which are not even sterile! Of course these blades have a different sort of a slot to attach them to the scalpel handle, which unfortunately will cause them to break if you apply too much pressure to the blade, but what the heck: The are sterile, so no problem. ROAR I try to use them as well. Started using them when I started working in the OR in 1976. Collected many a box of them from reps pushing new blades. Now that I've been retired, I can't find a source for them. The medical supply houses here won't sell them to the public.
BroadwayLion LION does not use X-acto blades. Him uses real (sterile) surgical blades that are about 1/10th the price of the hobby shop variety, which are not even sterile! Of course these blades have a different sort of a slot to attach them to the scalpel handle, which unfortunately will cause them to break if you apply too much pressure to the blade, but what the heck: The are sterile, so no problem. ROAR
LION does not use X-acto blades. Him uses real (sterile) surgical blades that are about 1/10th the price of the hobby shop variety, which are not even sterile! Of course these blades have a different sort of a slot to attach them to the scalpel handle, which unfortunately will cause them to break if you apply too much pressure to the blade, but what the heck: The are sterile, so no problem.
I try to use them as well. Started using them when I started working in the OR in 1976. Collected many a box of them from reps pushing new blades. Now that I've been retired, I can't find a source for them. The medical supply houses here won't sell them to the public.
Moore Medical (mooremedical.com) They will also sell you band-aids.
I also have a perfect little circle where the moto tool and a 1/8 drill bit entered my left hand just missing the first knuckle. I was a carpet installer for almost 30 years and I cant begin to remember all the cuts and @#$%@$@#'s. One I can remember my knife slipped and cut the whole end of my left thumb off, It was a pure white carpet in the furthest corner when I did it, lucky I didnt put a drop on it. Wraped it with good ole duct tape, you can almost see the scar and sometimes the feeling comes back LOL.Jim.
rrinker After 40+ years in the hobby, I lost count. Cuts, scrapes, burns, screwdriver slices, fingers hit by hammer that misses the nail, it's all in there. Don't think I've managed to glue my fingers together with CA such that I needed to use debonder or acetone to get them apart though. --Randy
After 40+ years in the hobby, I lost count. Cuts, scrapes, burns, screwdriver slices, fingers hit by hammer that misses the nail, it's all in there. Don't think I've managed to glue my fingers together with CA such that I needed to use debonder or acetone to get them apart though.
Strange....I've glued my fingers together and to my projects more times than I can count on nine...er..ten fingers!
As for injuries...just the minor cuts and scrapes. I'm my own best paramedic and my wife is a nurse.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
I'm like George. Always in trouble with the CA. BTW if you do cut yourself CA works great. Make sure its the non toxic kind.
Did my damndest to take my finger off with a hunting knife the other night. Was using it to strip a section of bus wire for adding feeders, knife slipped, finger in wrong place, blade stopped when it hit bone. Guess I should consider investing in suitcase connectors.
As Gary Busey said, never pet a burning dog or fry bacon naked...
Streamlined steam, oh, what a dream!!