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Re: build injuries
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 7:19 am
by 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.
Re: build injuries
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 7:51 am
by imaditi
manas101 has an interesting story from the middle school days in boomi

Re: build injuries
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 8:00 am
by Manas101
imaditi wrote: ↑April 11th, 2020, 7:51 am
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
Re: build injuries
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 9:05 am
by imaditi
Manas101 wrote: ↑April 11th, 2020, 8:00 am
imaditi wrote: ↑April 11th, 2020, 7:51 am
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
Re: build injuries
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 12:51 pm
by TheChiScientist
SilverBreeze wrote: ↑April 11th, 2020, 12:29 am
builderguy135 wrote: ↑April 10th, 2020, 10:11 pm
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.
Re: build injuries
Posted: April 11th, 2020, 1:05 pm
by 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