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OuBallie · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:32 pm Post subject: Silly me!

After my contretemps with the circular saw, I should have learned to pay attention.
Well this morning that resolve slipped somewhat . . .

With RH index finger in hinge side door jam, I went to close the door!

Good leverage + finger in jam = howl in agony!

Took a second for the pain to register, then it was a case of hopping around swearing at everything and everyone in sight including myself.

An application of Zambuk, however, soon had the pain a distant memory and blood blister disappearing.

Geoff - Finger just about back to normal.

Location: South Norfolk - Near Suffolk
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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2701 Location: South Cheshire

Bitumen Boy · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:19 pm Post subject: Re: Silly me!

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

Silly me stories.
When I was taught to gas weld the old boy who shew me would always turn over the top of the welding wire at through 180 degrees. He told me that stopped you poking it in your eye if you got careless.
As I wore glasses and you normally wear goggles when welding anyway I couldn't see any real purpose in doing this.
That was until I found out (the hard way) that it also stopped you picking up the welding rod by the hot end if you dropped it.
Silly me.
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vitesse · Joined: 03 Jun 2013 Posts: 561

I cut through my electric lawn mowers lead a couple of weeks ago only a couple of metres from the the mower.

I found a spare 3 pin plug and socket adaptor I found lying around in the garage and thought perfect I will use that to splice the problem.

All good, then it pulls apart so I leant down to pick it up to plug it back in. Wack my thumb lit up like a firework, it felt like someone had hit it with a hammer. Fortunately the isolator flipped.

So I thought f**k me this is dangerous. I looked at the adaptor only to find that the pins are meant to be on the appliance side and the sockets on the power side. Ar*e had put them the wrong way around!

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4231 Location: South Cheshire

The dumbest thing I have ever done, and it was dumb! was whilst fitting a door in the house; I needed to raise it slightly to ensure the hinge was in the right place. The scraps of wood to hand were all too thick, so I grabbed the thinnest bit of scrap wood in one hand, and picked up my electric plane in the other and began to plane the wood.......what happened was that the wood was ripped from my grip and I ended up planing the palm of my hand Embarassed

...still got the scars.

Dave

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7211 Location: Edinburgh

The (one of) dumbest thing(s) I ever did was when I first started my car (20 years ago) was only to put 1 gallon of petrol in the tank and forget to switch the reserve tap to the "reserve" position. I even recorded my stupidity on video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpzg3sVvJGw&list=TLmTM17w6cwcE

Peter

Embarassed

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Uncle Alec · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 734 Location: Manchester

When I was in single mens' quarters at Newquay Police Station, I came in off night shift one morning, switched the two-bar electric fire on, went to the toilet, came back, thought the bars should have been glowing by then - AND TOUCHED THEM TO SEE IF THEY WERE GETTING HOT!!!

For God's sake, how dumb was that!

I survived by the way.