Portablizing injuries. (Or Injuries at all)

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:58 pm

Hey guys. If this thread has already been posted, tell me.

I wanna know if you guys have ever injured yourself in the course of making a portable, or any injuries that you have pics of.

Today, I stabbed myself in the stomach with a heated exacto knife. The tip broke and the knife went towards me. Dont worry, I'm alright. I got glue stitches.

Tell me yours. (I wanna see some nice stories or pics.

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ZN13 · Post by **ZN13** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:31 pm

That's why you always, ALWAYS cut away from you!

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:34 pm

Yea. But its hard. The blade was dull, also the plastic Im using is VERY thick. Like.. Quarter (Or more) of an inch. Also. I cant like clamp it down, as I already glued my disk drive in. (Duh! Stupid me. NEVER glue parts in before you cut out your A/C and RCA holes.)

Now, I know.

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:37 pm

If it's that thick you should be using a hacksaw, not a knife.

And on the topic of injuries, I haven't really got any bad ones from soldering. One time I screwed up while holding a case and it made a big gash in my thumb. Somehow there's no scar.

And another time we were trying to get the cat in the carrier. Well, cats are soft on top but really sharp underneath...

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:37 pm

Why didn't you search we have had a thread like this before

But I guess we all get new injuries

One time I ownd my hand with a soldering iron. I fell backwards and my hand fell onto the soldering iron. The scar just went away a couple of months ago.

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:39 pm

Lol. Bic I couldnt use a hack saw. I had to cut a hole in the plastic. A hack saw couldnt do that.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:47 pm

ZN13 wrote:That's why you always, ALWAYS cut away from you!

Yep. My uncle stabbed himself in the stomach with a knife while he was trying to pry apart two hot dogs.

ZN13 · Post by **ZN13** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:51 pm

HotDog-Cart wrote:Lol. Bic I couldnt use a hack saw. I had to cut a hole in the plastic. A hack saw couldnt do that.

Use a dremel!

Post by **Triton** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:55 pm

portable related: ive stabbed my thumb with an exacto knife, a few hotglue related blisters and crap flung in my eye from dremel

other stuff!

*fractured collarbone (age 3)
*scars on back from wall register that i fell on (age 5?)
*fractured left arm (6th grade)
*broken left wrist (8th grade)
*fractured right hand (9th grade)
*Idiopathic thrombocytopenic pupura (ITP, a blood disorder where your body destroys your blood platelets, not a good thing, my platelet count was under 1000 parts per millilitre possibly almost zero ppm, normal is 150-400k O.o 10th grade)
*carwreck that resulted in a type V AC seperation, had to have it surgically rebuilt basically then a week or two before i was schedualed to have the stainless steel pin removed the pin broke and was like that a few days, not fun! heres a pic of my shoulder post operation! 15 staples total! huge scar too

couple months later i think

damn im accident prone

heres links to the crap ive had
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic ... ic_purpura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separated_shoulder#Type_IV

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:03 pm

Ouch. Also, I couldnt use my dremel as I was afraid of damaging my Disk drive inside the case.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:12 pm

Solding iron injuries are the fun!

I have a perfect imprint (its fading now, but you can still kinda see it) of my old soldering iron on my hand, i dropped it.. then caught it, on the hot end (gas btw). Not fun, made a sizzelling sound, and well, it hurt.

Superglue injuries include somone at school superglueing the back of both my hands to a desk (not a friend >.>), had to wait for somone to find some acetone.

Err, cracked my skull open when i was 3 i think, jumping on a bed or somthing, slipped. Off to hospital.

Last but not least, a guy on our bus in year 8 decieded i was emo and slit my wrists for me. Not fun, aparently my gf is emo?

Anyhoo!

-Fel

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:18 pm

You shoulda kicked his ass.

I cracked my head open on a railroad track when I was 7ish.

Also, I still have super glue on my hands from gluing stuff. Any hints to getting it off?

ZN13 · Post by **ZN13** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:21 pm

I was climbing around at a friends house a long time ago, and he pushed me and this rusty old nail pierced my shoulder.

And @ Felino-Did you do anything to the kid on the bus? Sue him? Punch him? Anything?

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:24 pm

Yea dude.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you could sue him for Attemptive murder. As, you could die if he slit your wrists bad enough. I know someone that, past away because of that. I would totally sue his ass.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:36 pm

Acetone gets superglue off easy, if you have the stuff. Time works too.

Meh, i / we never did much about it, it wasn't to deep, bled though, plus the guy was already suspended for drinking (beer i think) in class / drugs so its fine.

In a way.

-Fel.

EDIT: He got beat up as well for it.