Randy - There's still time for the CA! Don't give up hope just yet!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
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
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
This brings to mind numerous hot glue burns when building the layout terrain.
The burns that keep on burning!!!!
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.
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.
Carey
Keep it between the Rails
Alabama Central Homepage
Nara member #128
NMRA &SER Life member
I sliced my left index finger pretty good a few years ago. I was being stupid at the time of course or it wouldn't have happened. Took nine stitches to sew my finger print back on. It is still numb. I think there are still blood stains in the garbage pail. I can vividly remember the sound of the blood squirting into the pail.
The worst part of the whole affair was having the stitches removed at my doctor's office. He has a very friendly nurse who unfortunately is a bit past her prime. Her hands shake constantly. That is bad enough when she is trying to give you a needle but when she was trying to get the tip of the stitch remover under the stitches she constantly poked me hard right in the wound! I told her to stop but she refused and kept right on proding away merrily. I guess that was payback for being stupid in the first place!
Nothing major for me, but they include the following: scrapes, burns, piercings, contusions, and torsions.
I have even invented swear words. Or maybe they just sounded new, but they sure were powerful. Acted just like a soothing balm...mostly.
Crandell
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
63yrs in the hobby many burns, bumps and cuts. Last cut last night cuting plastic. By now you would think that would I would to put in a new knife blade instead of forcing a dull one. To late to learn I guess.
There is no such thing as a bad day of railfanning. So many trains, so little time.
Not sure I wanna!
cjcrescent SUX V R40 Rider... For the veterans of this hobby, when was the last time you had an incident or injury? I've had two "bad" incidents, working on models and the layouts over the years. Had a X-acto knife with a #10 blade cut into a finger so deep it hit the bone, as well as the nerve. Healed nicely but that finger is numb from the cut site to the tip. Second incident was I was power drilling into something, don't remember for sure, but it was some metal, and the drill slipped, and before I could release the trigger, the drill went completely thru my hand. Fortunately it missed all the bones, tendons vessels and nerves. Sure was sore for a couple of weeks!
SUX V R40 Rider... For the veterans of this hobby, when was the last time you had an incident or injury?
I've had two "bad" incidents, working on models and the layouts over the years. Had a X-acto knife with a #10 blade cut into a finger so deep it hit the bone, as well as the nerve. Healed nicely but that finger is numb from the cut site to the tip.
Second incident was I was power drilling into something, don't remember for sure, but it was some metal, and the drill slipped, and before I could release the trigger, the drill went completely thru my hand. Fortunately it missed all the bones, tendons vessels and nerves. Sure was sore for a couple of weeks!
let's see, I've shocked myself and cut myself. that's about it...for now.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
LION keeps a box of band-aids in the train room.
RAILROADS regardless of size are HIGH HAZARD AREAS
Hazards in this area includes
Sharp Cutting ToolsPower Tools and Soldering IronsPaints, Vapors and FumesHigh Voltage ElectricityMoving TrainsAssorted Clutter and Poor Footing
SUX V R40 Rider I cannot t remember the last time i had an unintentional incident while riding.
I cannot t remember the last time i had an unintentional incident while riding.
What the h... is an unintentional accident? If it is intentional, it ain´t no accident, Sir,
OMG that occurs so regularly with me that I don't even bother keeping track of it anymore!
Most of the time it's from banging my head or scraping my back when climbing out from doing maintenance work under the layout. Also the occasional splinter. But one time ~7 years ago when I was building my first layout, I did something - can't remember exactly what - that caused a lot of blood to spew all over my hand, I actually took a photo of it and posted it on a thread similar to this one. Nobody was impressed, "been there done that"...
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Sir MadogI have given up on counting the number of cuts and bruises I got working on my layout over the nearly 5 decades I am in the hobby. I know one thing for sure, assembling that loco kit of mine will add a number of burns to the list.
I know one thing for sure, assembling that loco kit of mine will add a number of burns to the list.
I have been in the hobbby for about the same time, and it almost seems that if you don't end up with some cuts, slices, splinters, burns and sundry other "boo-boos", you are not working at it hard enough - also the number of times I have glued myself using CA. It just seems to go with building stuff; that being said, I try to work carefully and watch out for myself - do things the safe way.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
When I was building my bench work I had a section upside down on the garage floor. I had installed support braces on three sides running horizontally with the top.
I stepped into the open sside and then decided I could do what I wanted better from the outside, Forgetting about the braces I moved to one of them and did a summersault landing on my right shoulder. My leg was also badly skinned up from dragging across the brace..
To make a short story of this my rotator cuff is damaged and my leg got badly infected. IMO the cure for the rotator cuff imo was going to be worse than living with it as is. After several antibiotics and the infection went away,
I'm limited by how much weight I can lift and for how long I can raise my hand above my head. This only comes into play when I'm under the layout or stretching my arm out for some time to do scenery.
Of course these limitations occur in the real world but who cares about that as long as the modeling gets done.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
I've often remarked about the skills that are learned and improved by this hobby.
Through my mistakes, I've learned to be careful with knives and soldering irons.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I have given up on counting the number of cuts and bruises I got working on my layout over the nearly 5 decades I am in the hobby.