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Re: build injuries

Posted: March 12th, 2014, 7:32 am
by blockhead
I was helping at regionals. An event supervisor asked me to get him a soda.Someone else asked me to bring a box from team room. Got lost because I didn't know Fisher at all then. After wondering around I finally found a pop machine. I balanced the can on top of the box. I was late so I started to rush. Crash! I skid on some gunk on the floor. The soda went flying and the can exploded. Well it leaked. I got the tools to the event in time. But I ended up limping all day.

Re: build injuries

Posted: March 12th, 2014, 8:41 am
by A Person
1nxtmonster wrote:I got some nice burns when I simultaneously spilled super glue and activator on my finger. Man,that stuff gets hot!
Hate that.

Re: build injuries

Posted: March 12th, 2014, 11:53 am
by bernard
Tried to switch blades for my exacto knife...decided to pull it out with my finger on the blade, cut deep and it bled through several bandages

I'm really dumb. Also, lots of splinters from wood and sanding the surface of my fingernails (but it doesn't hurt ^^).

Re: build injuries

Posted: April 5th, 2020, 5:36 pm
by Things2do
I've gotten several cuts from my utility knife while cutting wood for a Boomilever. I've also glued my fingers together several times, including once around my nearly completed Boomilever, so I couldn't slide my fingers off. Not to mention everything that I've dropped on my toes...

Re: build injuries

Posted: April 5th, 2020, 6:19 pm
by MTV<=>Operator
Things2do wrote: April 5th, 2020, 5:36 pm I've gotten several cuts from my utility knife while cutting wood for a Boomilever. I've also glued my fingers together several times, including once around my nearly completed Boomilever, so I couldn't slide my fingers off. Not to mention everything that I've dropped on my toes...
Yeah I've cut my fingers many times with an xacto knife because I stupidly used my finger as a cutting board in the absence of one :D . I also cut myself on sheet metal, somehow cut myself on a tape measure twice, and gotten splinters from a sheet of plywood. I also got a minor burn from soldering a wire which I was holding at the opposite end.

Re: build injuries

Posted: April 8th, 2020, 1:00 pm
by MoMoney$$$;)0)
I bled all over my hovercraft test after cutting my whole thumb down the middle, after having to cut a splint for our wright stuff on my hand. BIG MISTAKE. I'm pretty sure we didn't do good, because they didn't grade the pages I bled on. I was also feeling pretty ill after it, so I failed that invitational.

Re: build injuries

Posted: April 8th, 2020, 1:42 pm
by SilverBreeze
I put my blood, sweat, and tears into our tower... as in, it was really bad and I spent a lot of time but not enough time on it, but I cut myself and accidentally smeared it on the wood, had eye irritation from CA glue fumes, and got sweat all of the tower from my fingers holding it nervously at Regionals.

Additionally, once I cut myself during an activity that involved building a wind-powered vehicle/sailboat thing with a team. I didn't notice until a couple bloody fingerprints either. We started joking about how the blood powered the vehicle(don't ask). Blood is technically a renewable resource.

Re: build injuries

Posted: April 8th, 2020, 3:11 pm
by sneepity
homesciencenerd wrote: March 1st, 2014, 5:55 pm boom cut my self all the time with razers so when i say that i put blood and sweat into my booms i am probably telling the truth
same I put my blood sweat and tears in my children (boomilevers)
I usually hurt myself with the pins :(

Re: build injuries

Posted: April 9th, 2020, 10:00 am
by CPScienceDude
Heh, I cut my palm, then cut my pinkie (almost to the bone :0) on sheet metal while building my ramp for GV. Be careful with sheet metal lol.

Re: build injuries

Posted: April 9th, 2020, 12:47 pm
by Creationist127
My friend was helping me with a hovercraft. He was holding a motor. A propeller was glued to the motor, and I turned the motor on. The glue wasn't strong enough, and the prop flew off and cut his hand. It didn't draw a lot of blood, though he still brings it up to this day...