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David Jenkins - 21/1/10 at 02:46 PM

You know when you nudge something off a shelf and you really don't want it to hit the concrete floor? And your brain instinctively tells you body to catch it, but doesn't remind you that it could hurt?

I knocked my Mitutoyo digital vernier off its perch last night and immediately caught it, as my brain shouted "That's expensive!".

Then my brain told me that the pointy ends of the jaws had just spiked my fingers...

"Oh sugar" I said (or similar)...

matt_claydon - 21/1/10 at 02:58 PM

Your finger will heal, your verniers wouldn't have - good instant decision to attempt the catch!

It's when you instinctively do it and hurt yourself for something of little value that it's really galling!

nick205 - 21/1/10 at 03:01 PM

Maybe relocate the vernier to a another storage location

alistairolsen - 21/1/10 at 03:07 PM

Did it once with a knife, less than ideal

David Jenkins - 21/1/10 at 03:13 PM

Did it once with a soldering iron, when I first started working - and yes, it was on and hot!

Lesson 1 - if a soldering iron falls - get out of its way...

[Edited on 21/1/10 by David Jenkins]

Daddylonglegs - 21/1/10 at 03:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Did it once with a soldering iron, when I first started working - and yes, it was on and hot!

Lesson 1 - if a soldering iron falls - get out of its way...

[Edited on 21/1/10 by David Jenkins]


Mmmmm....the smell of burning flesh! Been there several times with the 'ole soldering iron Never tried to catch one though, just sizzled my digits due to incompetence or the need for an extra 5 hands

Suprised there aren't more injuries posted on here as most of us seem to revel in working in garages that are 25% smaller than the actual space we need to build

cd.thomson - 21/1/10 at 03:37 PM

i generally nudge stuff off so that it falls somewhere inaccesible!

last weekend i managed to knock my selection box of electrical connectors off the scuttle... tried to catch it which made the situation worse... I'm still plucking them out of the transmission tunnel and engine bay!

eta: i dont actually mind hurting myself, what does my head in is when things disappear.

I was under the car last night trying to rapidly fix a fuel leak. I was using two spanners, two hose clips and a bolt with two nuts and a washer - all within my reach. Without changing position I managed to misplace 1 spanner, then a hoseclip, then one of the nuts and eventually the other spanner.

I eventually found them on my workbench

[Edited on 21/1/10 by cd.thomson]

vinny1275 - 21/1/10 at 03:41 PM

I have to restrain my reflexes whenever I knock the sharp knife off the kitchen side....

The worst bit is when I drop something - was in a queue in the shop today, had a choccy bar in my hand, flipping it over and over. Dropped it, immediately went to catch it, succeeded, and whacked myself in the *ahem* gentleman's vegetables with it. Damn my cat-like reflexes!

MikeR - 21/1/10 at 03:44 PM

thats why my dad had an apprentice hander things over (aka me).

never let me actually do anything - but i eventually learnt every nut and bolt size on a mini and could pass the right spanner 75% of the time.

blakep82 - 21/1/10 at 03:51 PM

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Originally posted by vinny1275
The worst bit is when I drop something - was in a queue in the shop today, had a choccy bar in my hand, flipping it over and over. Dropped it,


ha ha i did that in tesco with a bag of rice. dropped it at the checkout went everywhere... denied all knowledge of it lol, even though i went to get another one lol

nick205 - 21/1/10 at 04:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
thats why my dad had an apprentice hander things over (aka me).

never let me actually do anything - but i eventually learnt every nut and bolt size on a mini and could pass the right spanner 75% of the time.



that sounds like a familiar story except my dad would ask for 5/16 spanner and I would have to look at at least 4 spanners before finding it - there's something to be said IMHO for going metric

smart51 - 21/1/10 at 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by matt_claydon
It's when you instinctively do it and hurt yourself for something of little value that it's really galling!


Last week my 18 month old was playing with a toy whilst facing a wall. he dropped it and immediately bent over to pick it up, cracking his forehead as he did so. I'm told I shouldn't have laughed.

55ant - 21/1/10 at 05:23 PM

cd, totaly with you, i dont know how i do it but i can loose a tool without moving its un believable!

scootz - 21/1/10 at 05:31 PM

Owwww!

I remember sitting astride my motorbike years ago and freewheeling out of the garage in the snow to put it on a trailer.

Slipped on the ice underneath me and knew the bike was going down... I could have hopped clear, but no - I made sure it landed on me instead of the hard ground!

The things you do...

BenB - 21/1/10 at 05:34 PM

Did exactly the same the other day with a terracotta tile that fell off the roof I was working on. Make a blooming big hole in the side of my finger!!!

Daddylonglegs - 21/1/10 at 09:01 PM

As far as cd.thomson's comments and the disappearing tools etc. it's a well known fact that the tool pixies are very active this time of the year

You have been warned.......

Angel Acevedo - 24/1/10 at 01:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
As far as cd.thomson's comments and the disappearing tools etc. it's a well known fact that the tool pixies are very active this time of the year

You have been warned.......


Long time ago, i received a Childīs car seat as a gift, it was dirty as hell so i disassembled to wash cover and seatbelts, wifey managed to misplace belt bucle in less than 5 min.
We searched the wholel hose looking for it, even trash bin...
No luck....
We call them Aluxes around southern mexxico....