Safety Warning

Caution: When working on cars and using sharp tools, always push pointy end of tool away from hand (razor knife).

Actually, I sprayed it off with the garden hose, sealed it up with duct tape and kept working for another hour. Doctor was amused.

Nice.

been there, done that. I have a high tolerance to pain, so I never knew I had stabbed myself until I started finding blood all over.

LOL, My browser tab is labled 'Safety Warning:Off Topic Discussion...'

For a moment I thought my browser was trying to warn me about spending too much time on GRM

Hard to photograph, but you may see the scar. At the time, I thought my thumb was coming off. But I wasn't a Bob Costas who went for stitches, I just used electrical tape and kept working, too.

Tim cut the fleshy base of his thumb a few years ago with the chain saw--not a long gash, but deep and wide. I told him he needed stitches, but he didn't want to take the time to go get them, so he asked me to sew it up with a sewing needle and some carpet thread. I said no. Next thing I knew, he was out on the patio jabbing himself with the needle, then he duct-taped the mess of gore and thread and finished the yard work. Eventually wound up seeing a real doc (our neighbor), who stitched it correctly and laughed a lot.

(Sorry if you've heard the story before, but it seemed appropriate here.)

Margie

The first time my wife and I ever went camping (she was my Fiancee at the time) I cut my thumb to the bone with a hatchet. After 2 hours of me holding the thing over my head and packing snow around it, I realized the bleeding wasn't going to stop and succumbed to her wishes to go to the hospital for stitches. Kinda ruined the whole plan by spending the night in the ER. To put a bigger damper on things, when we got back, our campsite had been surrounded by 2 troops of Boy Scouts. (although, I did convince them to chop my firewood the rest of the time we were there)

I did a very similar thing a few years back using a utility knife to open a 5 gallon plastic paint bucket. When I got to the Doc-in-a-box, this big old black nurse came in to stitch it up, I mentioned that I'd never had stiches in my life.

She replied, "Ain't that a coincidence.. I've never put any in, either."

Thankfully, she was joking.

I used superglue to patch this lil fella up. Thats a "shinner" pronounced Shin-ner - ask anyone who rides BMX/MTB on platform pedals what a shinner is...basically your foot slips off the pedal and the grippy (usually metal and spiked ) platform tries to play cheese grater on your leg flesh.

yummy

I cut the hell out of my hand in a junkyard...with a Gran Marque emblem...that was still attached to the trunk. Fords hate me.

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Here's what happens when you polarity test a cooling fan motor, it jumps and you idiotically try to keep it from falling. Those 'S' shaped blades are SHARP. Memo to self: next time let the damn thing fall.

There was no way to get stitches so I just kept them clean and let them heal on their own. Both fingers have a scar, they are shaped a little funny and they are much more temperature sensitive than the rest of my digits. I'm just glad to still have them.

Chicks dig scars!

Appleseed wrote: Chicks dig scars!

The last time my wife cut herself while we were in the vicinity of my parents my mother was going all nuts because the wife was injured. "OMG that's probably going to leave a scar!" and such.

So my wife said "It's OK. Chicks dig scars." Mom was less than impressed.

A guy at the racetrack last night said:

"Scars are like stickers, they add horsepower"

Jensenman wrote: Those 'S' shaped blades are SHARP.

Ouch.

keethrax wrote: "Scars are like stickers, they add horsepower"

Somebody put that in the mag

crazy glue is the backyard mechanics best friend...two part epoxy doesn't work so good...

"Scars are tattoos with a better story!"

I had stitches in every finger before I was 25. When I was 18 I cut the left index finger OFF. Fortunately the doc sewed it back um with a metal pin in it. I do have a numb spot in the tip 25 years later. I havent had any stitches in about 10 years. Did I jinx myself there? I guess tomorow I will cut an arm off.

I worked with an ex Navy medic that I actualy saw sewing his own finger shut with a proper suture kit while standing at his tool box. No pain killer before only shots of Gentleman Jack after.

Paper towel plus duct tape = mechanics band aid. So many times, so many scars. No Tattoos yet, though.

I slashed my finger on a piece of (clean) glass, last year. Patched it up with garage supplies and got back to working/drinking, and it eventually healed by itself. But, I think I may have damaged a nerve, or something. Because now occasionally in cold weather, my finger will "lock up", in a bent position.

i once had the entirety of an exact-o knife blade in my left hand... paper towel and duct tape fixed it up...I still have finger spasms sometimes, but I am not a surgeon, so it's cool.

924guy wrote: crazy glue is the backyard mechanics best friend...two part epoxy doesn't work so good...

But, polyester resin does wonders if you can wait for it to set. Summer job I had in college, I worked at a hovercraft facility laying up fiberglass hulls. Lots of cut from improperly sanded edges, though there was no one to blame but myself. Acetone to sterilize the cut, some resin in the wound, masking tape, and a week later the resin would fall out and no scar, usually. I think I've only got one barely visible scar left 14 years later.

I found an Angle Grinder with a wirebrush wheel will take A LOT of skin off in a glancing blow. about a 1/2" by 3" section from my hand.

right through the fat along my left index finger......the scar isn't too bad anymore

The only formal stitches I've ever had were from my apendectomy, but I have super glued my thumb together twice.

aeronca65t wrote: "Scars are tattoos with a better story!"

Truth!