build injuries

[sneepity]

Idk I was fooling around and I sanded a bunch of sticks, placed all of the dust in a neat pile, and poured a bunch of BLUE CA glue on it, so ofc it turned into a clump lol.
And then the foam board underneath started fizzing so I got scared, and it smelled horrible. Idk why but my nose hurt a lot the whole day.

[imaditi]

manas101 has an interesting story from the middle school days in boomi

[Manas101]

manas101 has an interesting story from the middle school days in boomi

Cut off a huge part of skin from my finger using a balsa stripper, we don't talk about it imaditi

[imaditi]

manas101 has an interesting story from the middle school days in boomi

Cut off a huge part of skin from my finger using a balsa stripper, we don't talk about it imaditi

all I remember is everyone screaming saying this is why we are not allowed to use tools

[TheChiScientist]

yes

I stuck my finger into a hovercraft fan that was turned off but was still spinning really fast because I'm an idiot. Ended up bleeding a lot for almost half a day because I punctured a vein or two. Couldn't play violin for ~3 weeks because I had a finger splint. Still have a pretty large scar to this day lol

Then there was the time I pushed down on a razor blade really hard while building some plane but I couldn't figure out why it wasn't cutting anything Turns out it was upside down lmao

Also, wood dust+glue+accelerator=1st degree burn.

Regarding the razor blade... I was making little hinges out of small pieces of scrap balsa I had lying around(don't ask) and had cut all the way through a piece while wondering why it was taking so long and making squeaking noises. I realized the blade had been upside down the entire time. The hinges were decorated with some red smears.
I also did the exact same thing with a fruit knife while peeling an apple once.

EEK. And I though me almost burning down the school while working on hovercraft was bad.

[Giantpants]

The worst I ever got was a few times while I was setting up for a Mousetrap Vehicle run, either the string would snap and the rod it was attached to would spring forward and hit my hand, or one of the mousetrap hooks holding the spring/bar down would pop out, releasing the spring and attached rod which was obviously under a lot of tension, and not only ruin the mousetrap, but also give me a nice solid bruise on my hand. rip. By states when I ran it I had perfected how quickly I could pull my hand away after springing it lol

Perhaps there's a reason I don't mainly do builds haha but you guys have some really bad ones D: mad respect