Hobby Wounds

[durangod]

Well last week i stabbed my left index finger with the pen knife and now i have a matching wound on my right index finger lol.

This pen knife is a cheap one and lid keeps falling off. I will be shopping for a new safer version that still uses #11 blade.

Do you also have hobby wounds?

(ps i changed the title out of respect for those era members that have true battle wounds)

 

[Pantherman]

Well last week i stabbed my left index finger with the pen knife and now i have a matching wound on my right index finger lol.

This pen knife is a cheap one and lid keeps falling off. I will be shopping for a new safer version that still uses #11 blade.

Do you also have hobby wounds?

(ps i changed the title out of respect for those era members that have true battle wounds)

I have found these handy little guards after several encounters with the hobby knife. Pantherman

 

[wjbrandel]

I have found these handy little guards after several encounters with the hobby knife. Pantherman

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After nearly slicing my thumb in half with a blade that slipped I use those now too

 

[Eagle-1]

Do you also have hobby wounds?

Got my heart broke one time by Otaki.

Rob.

 

[durangod]

Got my heart broke one time by Otaki.

Rob.

Did they go out of business?

 

[Eagle-1]

Did they go out of business?

I hope so. I never did get over it.

Rob.

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

Well last week i stabbed my left index finger with the pen knife and now i have a matching wound on my right index finger lol.

This pen knife is a cheap one and lid keeps falling off. I will be shopping for a new safer version that still uses #11 blade.

Do you also have hobby wounds?

(ps i changed the title out of respect for those era members that have true battle wounds)

Amateur… ever had a micro drill bit snap off and gets embedded in your finger? It's like having a metal sliver.

I've had numerous hobby related injuries with hobby knife sliced, poked, etc... Those Z-Series blades are super sharp and will slice you pretty good.

 

[durangod]

Amateur… ever had a micro drill bit snap off and gets embedded in your finger? It's like having a metal sliver.

I've had numerous hobby related injuries with hobby knife sliced, poked, etc... Those Z-Series blades are super sharp and will slice you pretty good.

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ouch.

Not so many hobby injuries so far but give me time ill get there LOL.

But i do have a long list of shop injuries like almost losing my thumb with the angle grinder stopped half way through it. Drilling a hole in my hand had to go to ER for that one. Dropping a sledge on my foot, that one hurt the most.

Its mostly when im tired and i should stop but i dont, or when i rush. The hand injury i was too lazy to get a clamp and held the piece by hand. It slipped and drill almost got me twice, and the third time right through my hand. I think of it as GOD gave me two warnings and then free will did its thing LOL

 

[durangod]

@BlackSheepTwoOneFour

What tool do you use with your micro bits?
My bits dont fit my battery hand drill so i need to buy the tool.

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

@BlackSheepTwoOneFour

What tool do you use with your micro bits?
My bits dont fit my battery hand drill so i need to buy the tool.

Variable speed Dremel. Lately, I've been drilling by hand instead of using the Dremel. Tends to break extremely easy. Those bits are pretty fragile, thus the reason why about half of them have been broken off. Even if you're very careful, the Dremel tool is a bit too heavy to hold the micro drill bits steady on low speed.

 

[Rimmer]

Not had a bad hobby injury (yet) but years ago when I was working on a Lycoming some idiot standing on the other-side of it thought it would be a great idea to clean it with air powered spray gun full of AvGas. I had face full of it and in both eyes - man that hurt.

 

[durangod]

Not had a bad hobby injury (yet) but years ago when I was working on a Lycoming some idiot standing on the other-side of it thought it would be a great idea to clean it with air powered spray gun full of AvGas. I had face full of it and in both eyes - man that hurt.

Ouch, i hope he learned to never do that again.

 

[Rimmer]

Ouch, i hope he learned to never do that again.

You'd think so, but a few weeks later I was down the rear fuselage of a DHC Chipmunk doing some riveting and he decided to clear the firewall in the same way - I didn't have a mask on and he gassed me out.

He didn't do it again after I offered to adjust his cranium with one of my ball point hammers.