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Eooouch but it smarted a bit. Glad your mending , I hate when stuff happens so quick. Usually I'm doing to much or tired or someone comes up and scares me into it. Keep it covered wear a finger cot or glove to help.
Would love to wear gloves. But working with the lathe I am hesitant because of the danger. And I know me, going back and forth I would get lazy and just leave them on.Eooouch but it smarted a bit. Glad your mending , I hate when stuff happens so quick. Usually I'm doing to much or tired or someone comes up and scares me into it. Keep it covered wear a finger cot or glove to help.
It took him nearly five minutes to clean that wound and it wasn't even that big.
Keep it covered and swing the hammer with the other hand!
My worst power tool oops came from the ubiquitous double wheel bench grinder. Everybody knows a bench grinder can get you in various ways. I was being careful how I used the wheel I was using, but I wasn't being careful at all around the wheel I wasn't using. It didn't take long to show me what the inside of a knuckle looks like.
My worst electrical oops came when I was showing my son how to use the electric hedge clippers. "Be careful not to cut the cord." I cut the cord. "You should really never do this, but I only have one long extension cord, so I'm going to solder it back together and keep using it for now." I turned off the power strip supplying the thing, cut the wires. "That was weird. It looked like a spark. The power is off. That couldn't have been a spark." So I proved it to my son by taking my knife and intentionally shorting the wires. The neutral was very much hot, and I stuck the knife into my shin bone. Do as I say, not as I do, son.
My worst really sharp thing oops came after I had just spent forever honing a chisel to a mirror-polished razor edge. I knocked it off the bench, and my beautiful edge was heading toward the unyielding floor. Without thinking, I caught it. Be careful what you wish for. THOCK! I stuck it into a finger bone.
My worst hand tool oops came when I was showing my son how to cut a square tenon to fit a mortise. I had a little piece of oak clamped short edge up in my face vise, and I started sawing one of the cheeks. The work slipped, and I guillotined the backsaw into my left index finger. It was one of those saws with the really aggressive bidirectional tooth pattern, and what seems like it should have just been a scratch severed the nerve in my finger. I had no feeling in that finger past the scar for several years. It was really, really ugly.
What did I use in all of the above situations where I did something incredibly stupid or careless and let copious amounts of the red goo out of my body? I walked to the bathroom calmly, smiling at my wife, and dumped alum all over it, then I went back to the shop to keep working. Alum is sold as a pickling spice, and that's why I have a little spice jar in my medicine cabinet. It also works great when you screw up and cut the dog's toenails too short.
Some people have nodded and congratulated my good thinking, while other people have reacted in horror to my use of alum. I am neither a doctor nor a nurse. I just tried an idea some old wife gave me, and I liked the results.
The best plan is to avoid letting the red goo out of yourself in the first place. I am a lot smarter than I was in my youth, though not smart enough to avoid cutting myself while installing and adjusting carbide endmills.
OUCH! . . . . Us parents can hope right...?