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pauluffel
15-01-2003, 22:06
As it appears there have been a few flying crate incidents already this year (which always have a good story to back them up) does anyone else have funny/interesting/warning stories involving either flying things or damage (such as broken windows)?
I have stories about broken windows, but I don't exactly want them to get out if ya know what I mean....:D
Cory
Our Team had a Frozen diet coke bottle explode in the middle of a meeting... it was really interesting and REALLY LOUD (sounded like a machine blew-up) and dont forget messy
Rob Colatutto
15-01-2003, 22:34
during our meeting yesterday the fire alarms went off because people were working on the school and set a birds nest on fire while welding. right after the alarms went off it sounded like a huge pile of metal poles fell down the stairs...still don't know exactly what it was
OneAngryDaisy
15-01-2003, 22:34
Originally posted by MattK
Our Team had a Frozen diet coke bottle explode in the middle of a meeting... it was really interesting and REALLY LOUD (sounded like a machine blew-up) and dont forget messy
uhh... how exactly was it frozen? Do you hold your team meetings outside in subzero conditions?
Originally posted by OneAngryDaisy
uhh... how exactly was it frozen? Do you hold your team meetings outside in subzero conditions?
Well we do live in New Hampshire... no just kiddin
See what happend, is we have a little what we thought was a fridge in our work area... well it ended-up not being a fridge but a freezer (yea I know and we are sopposed to be the bright kids). So they where left in there from Sat. afternoon till monday afternoon.
Anyone know why the 2 Regular Cokes didnt blow or really expand all that much but the Diet Coke Expanded like crazy?
Amanda Aldridge
15-01-2003, 22:38
well, not from this year, but i seem to remember tripping over the bar (field barrier) and hitting the ground really hard, and dislocating my shoulder my rookie year. they still haven't let me forget it. note to self: if attending robotics meeting directly after work, bring change of clothes. skirts and robotics don't mix, even if you're only going there to work on chairman's for awhile.:ahh:
mandy
Nothing bad has happened yet. The worst was probably me picking up a stack that was a tad bit too big. I got a few good hits on the head. I know past years we've had fun with the ramps...people riding around on the robots or just riding on the ramps :P One year, one of the kids rode our bot cart down a steep hill :D That was the end of that cart :P
Originally posted by MattK
Our Team had a Frozen diet coke bottle explode in the middle of a meeting... it was really interesting and REALLY LOUD (sounded like a machine blew-up) and dont forget messy
I had a can of Coke explode in my car a few days ago... not a pretty sight.
Haha...sucks to be a Coke drinker :) Pepsi would never turn on it's drinkers like that!
2PI4Julia
16-01-2003, 00:14
we've had many strange and scary things happen to us, for example, we can build a robot, yet it takes 4 of our brightest team members 15 minutes to move an extention cord and figure out how to use a microwave :D
Anyways, yeah, we've had some stupid people flinging boxes at eachother, attacking certain team members with hacksaws and sparking metal object-y type things, and even things randomly falling off shelves onto the poor souls standing beneath it! (there is a reason for which we call it the Closet of Unspeakable Horrors :D )
Anarkissed
16-01-2003, 12:36
surgical tubing is good for attacks :D *snap*
DanLevin247
16-01-2003, 19:20
My injury happened today.
My team mates and I were waiting for our teacher and machine shop manager to tell us to power up our 2002 robot, and we were praticing toppling crates as we waited. I went to take a dive into the pyramid, which i have done many times...but an unnamed, moron thought it would be funny to stand on the other side of the pyramid, and put his body up against the pyramid, so it would be like me hitting a brick wall when I hit the crates. After I hit the crates, he started laughing, and my neck and head still hurts, I'm just lucky his act of stupidity did not mess up my scoliosis corrective surgery ( metal bars and screws in my spine ).
trollin1st
16-01-2003, 19:25
our strategy team was working with how the different stacks fall on the ramp we built...well one of the students felt it would be funny to karate kick the 5 high stack whle it was on the ramp...well his foot got stuck on the bottom box, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th box went flying, but the 5th fell straight down:yikes: I came out of the other room with one of the kids on the floor laughing and the one who kicked the boxes holding his leg...I just walked away saying" I don't want to know" shaking my head....note to self...do not leave the kids on the strategy team alone with the boxes and ramp.
Ryan Foley
16-01-2003, 21:04
i did ride aroud on the team robot once. we put the shaft of a swivel chair in the gripper, put the controls on my lap and went for a spin. it was a blast.
then last year, team 350 was an inactive team. we ended up competing at river rage with a modified version of our 2001 robot. We decided to test it at a little demo in merrimack nh on the 4th of july with teams 166 and 151. well, what ended up happening is the nashua robot managed to drag us around the field (they grabbed our frame). Then later they tried to help us out by pushing us so we could get away from the wall. It turns out the back of our bot is like a ramp, as they rolled on top of us. Then later that day, they knocked the battery out of position, and it came disconnected, then proceeded to knock off all 3 of our signs (the team number signs, and sponsors sign). It was amusing.
then earlier that year 2 kids got in a lightsaber fight with 2 of the PVC pipes off the 2002 goal
in 2001 we managed to snap our front left wheel off 2 times at UTC regionals
thats all i can think of for now
pauluffel
16-01-2003, 23:41
Last year with the soccer balls we broke out two or three windows for about 50ft away. It really seemed to piss off the MotorSports people who share our building, because one day after the competition we found all of the balls with large slashes in them from where someone had taken a knife to them. We also had a few minor injuries from playing basketball with last year"s field, one goal, a soccer ball, and rolley chairs for all players. :D
As to this year, the most we"ve done is broken a cieling tile and bent the metal strips that hold it up. I"ve almost killed a few stupid people, but that"s beside the point.
It seems that this year is a much more dangerous game, and I hope that all of you who try launching never manage to launch a box into the crowd.
Moshingkow
16-01-2003, 23:49
last year, we were in quite a hurry to work on the robot. People were pissing me off, so I was working kinda fast and angrily. I was cutting a piece of angle iron with a hack saw, and as soon as I cut through, I was mid stroke going forward. to sum it up, deep flesh wound on my forefinger that hurt for a looong time (it still hurts if i push on it) but that diddnt stop me from working. bandaids wouldnt keep all the blood in so what did I use? paper towels and duct tape!! aaah the improvisation of the heat of the moment....
tenkai
HolyMasamune
17-01-2003, 00:00
Not yet =)
A team member (longwaytofall on these boards) brought in a potato cannon and we were playing around with it. Yangotang threw a piece of potato off a balcony and hit another one of our team members in the face.
Yan Wang
17-01-2003, 21:42
Hmm... I have about 5 cuts on my hand that's healing... bunch of splinters too.
2PI4Julia
18-01-2003, 00:54
well, we officially had our first injury of the year today: my pinky finger. bleh, I was trying to tighten the thing on the drill press that holds the bit, and the chuck slipped, and so did my hand, right onto the really sharp part of the drill bit. Hurt like heck, and bled quite a bit, too. But oh well, washed it off, slapped a bandaid on it, and I was back and working on the same drill press and piece as I was before in less than 5 minutes :D lol
It seems that this year is a much more dangerous game, and I hope that all of you who try launching never manage to launch a box into the crowd.
I AGREE! That would totally suck to be sitting in the audience of the competition, and out of no where this great big blue iceberg tub wails you on the head. I wonder what Woody would think about that... Maybe I'll post something on the general forum about it.
we were testing our robot controls with our practice bot and we tohught it would be fun to take raides on the back. well after a few trys we tries a wheelie on an unsuspecting rider. needless to say, he fell off after an almost 45 degree wheelie:D
matt
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GateRunner
18-01-2003, 11:36
Not an injury, but a few sore shoulders and heads: we initially were testing angle of impact on the stack with team members just running into them. that ended quickly.
Well, our first problem was that one of our team members, who believes that smacking thinks with sticks always solves the problem, was 'fiddling' around with one of our drill motor (trouble already). Of course, somehow, he popped out the pin, and since we didn't know where it went, we put it in a baggy which got lost. Now we, have to make him fiddle around with the other motor and pop out that pin, so they'll both coast, udstead of one breaking, resulting in a turn at the end.
Our injury happened today. I was helping to move the wire mesh for our field (which all we need now is carpet and space), and my finger got caught between two pieces of mech, one that we were moving and one that was stapled in.
well in the end, I nearly broke my pinky, and got a purple nail with a sprained pinky.:(
n[ate]vw
18-01-2003, 14:25
Originally posted by MattK
Anyone know why the 2 Regular Cokes didnt blow or really expand all that much but the Diet Coke Expanded like crazy? [/B]
When a liquid contains a solute, its freezing point is lowered and its boiling point is raised. By how much is dependent on the solute and the amount. Your Regular Cokes probably had a lot more corn syrup or whatever than the Diet Coke, which uses a lot less of a lot sweeter substance.
DanLevin247
18-01-2003, 14:51
It's kind of suprising that there isn't an overwhelming amount of injuries at competitions. Afterall, the machines that we make could easily rip somebody to shreds. Hopefully, "oops" won't be heard very often in the pit this year.
skitz547
18-01-2003, 16:16
interesting..
during our meeting yesterday the fire alarms went off because people were working on the school and set a birds nest on fire while welding. right after the alarms went off it sounded like a huge pile of metal poles fell down the stairs...still don't know exactly what it was
Yeah how about having fire alarms go off every five minutes because of a malfunction. It isn't fun trying to get stuff done when your going death.
I myself have a habit of bleeding on the robot. It's quite odd though because they aren't even big cuts but a large amount of blood comes out. I believe the worst injury was in our rookie year when someone had his finger crushed by the robot.
I spilt our big spagehtti dinner all over the floor
I have a story from last year. The weekend before we left for nationals I was playing softball and sprained my ankle (which also pulled off a piece of bone with the ligament). They gave me a hard plastic brace, and everyone decided to call me gimpy and hop-a-long. gimpy was the only one that stuck. so now some of the returning people know me as gimpy.
misterfoo
19-01-2003, 16:01
All:
I am one of the mentors on Team 811 and we had a serious accident with a student and a table saw a week ago.
Short summary is that the student cut his thumb to the BONE on the table saw blade while ripping a piece of wood.
He had been through safety training and was experienced on this piece of equipment.
The student is now fine, but a millimeter in the wrong direction and he could have severed his thumb.
ACCIDENTS can, and will happen; so please be careful.
As a result we have tightentd up policies with all tools to always have a mentor supervise the work, NO EXCEPTIONS!
I suggest that if you are a mentor or team lead, you consider adopting our policy.
Just today (as a safety mentor), I had to ask one of the other mentors to stop his work and continue in a safe manner. Had I not, he was about to injur himself with a jig saw.:ahh:
Short summary is that the student cut his thumb to the BONE on the table saw blade while ripping a piece of wood.
And also make sure that the robot isn't on when your working on it.
Mimi Brown
19-01-2003, 17:27
And also make sure that the robot isn't on when your working on it. The robot doesn't necessarily need to be on for you to be injured...last year at nats, i was backdriving chain on our basket lift with our human player after a match, and he pulled really hard and i couldn't move my hand fast enough. End result? my fingers squished between chain and a 6" diameter sprocket. It didn't feel good.
But this year so far the only injuries (for the whole team) have been minor cuts and splinters :D
Originally posted by Mimi Brown
The robot doesn't necessarily need to be on for you to be injured...last year at nats, i was backdriving chain on our basket lift with our human player after a match, and he pulled really hard and i couldn't move my hand fast enough. End result? my fingers squished between chain and a 6" diameter sprocket. It didn't feel good.
But this year so far the only injuries (for the whole team) have been minor cuts and splinters :D
Similar thing happened to my friend. he had his fingers in the chain, doing something, and a moron on our team decided to play with the controls. Needless to say, his finger could of been destroyed by our drivetrain, luckily it barely got caught before we stopped the fool.
Cory
Last year at LA regionals i was working on the motors mounted below our robot. We had a thingamajig in the front that was supposed to align the goals so we could grab them, and that was tensioned by those constant force springs and it was held in place by a nail and a piece of wire. Well, as i was working on the motors, my teacher decided to pull the trigger makin that pointy stick go straight for my head. Thankfully all i had to show for it was a rip on my shoulder....Beware of things that are sharp, pointy, and tensioned by constant force springs....
illumanat'i
19-01-2003, 23:10
last year we took motors from the year before's robot, a prototype frame for that years robot, and a bunch of random electronics we had sitting around, and created a wheelchair thingy.... we bolted a chair down on top of it and made a seatbelt out of duct tape and a beaner.... the thing worked fine for ten min and then started to smoke like crazy.... it was fast (for two old drill motors and a steel frame) and we almost ran over some other kids who were in the hall
2PI4Julia
19-01-2003, 23:12
during our meeting yesterday the fire alarms went off because people were working on the school and set a birds nest on fire while welding. right after the alarms went off it sounded like a huge pile of metal poles fell down the stairs...still don't know exactly what it was
The one smell that strikes the most fear into anyone who has been on our team is this: acrid sinus-stinging smoke. Usually accompanied by "HOLY WOWSERS THE MOTOR IS SMOKING!" or "ALRIGHT! Who let the magic white smoke out of the wires?!" :ahh: (last year we had a nuclear 'shroom cloud in miniature proportions when we managed to melt a bunch of our wires and the insulation when we turned the bot on to check something, it wasn't pretty). So far, that horrible smell has incured the death of about 3 motors (old drill motors and 2 other motors Mr. Stokely brought in the other day. No wonder the motor wasn't working properly, it was being fried because the transmission was grinding in ways it shouldn't be) Oy. Poor motors. :eek:
Some of these stories make me wonder if teams are bothering to do any safety training . Mentors are supposed to make sure that these incidents don't happen. Common sense is not enough(as the saying goes "Common sense isn't all that common.") They seem funny now but if someone gets seriously hurt, maimed or killed I don't think anyone will be laughing at all.
Originally posted by MattK
Well we do live in New Hampshire... no just kiddin
See what happend, is we have a little what we thought was a fridge in our work area... well it ended-up not being a fridge but a freezer (yea I know and we are sopposed to be the bright kids). So they where left in there from Sat. afternoon till monday afternoon.
Anyone know why the 2 Regular Cokes didnt blow or really expand all that much but the Diet Coke Expanded like crazy?
when i was in junior high i was in a science fair and some one from my school found out that diet sodas freeze faster because of the diferant ammounts of caffine and suger(i think) but it was really cool to watch the cans explode. also if you would have dropped the regular cokes from about 2 feet from the ground they would have exploded to(that is really really cool)
Jeff Waegelin
20-01-2003, 20:42
We had one team member who had a few incidents with steel pipe. In 2001, he had a weighted steel pipe dropped on his hand. Last year, he was threading a steel pipe, then slipped and cut his finger on the threader. He just didn't seem to have much luck with pipes.
n[ate]vw
20-01-2003, 21:00
Originally posted by Koko Ed
They seem funny now but if someone gets seriously hurt, maimed or killed I don't think anyone will be laughing at all.
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Don't take life so seriously. You'll never get out of it alive!
Interesting combination of post and signature. :rolleyes:
Aaron Lussier
20-01-2003, 21:26
My injury did not happen all at once, it's more of a "Progressive Injury" We got the shafts for our Transmission today, and of course they were 5 thousands oversized, the shaft was too long to put in the drill press we had, so we had to use emery paper and sand it down by hand, After you do that for about an hour the tiny metal shavings you take off when you sand were working there way in to my thumb, I cant get them out cause there so small, so tomorrow I'll just do it some more and shove more metal in to my thumb, by the end of this week they will be calling me Steel Thumb:yikes:
DanLevin247
20-01-2003, 22:05
set up a 10" cylinder to act as a vaccum...put your thumb over the hole and it should suck those little buggers right out.
Originally posted by n[ate]vw
Interesting combination of post and signature. :rolleyes:
It's one thing to live life in the moment and another to live life without regard.
Sean_330
21-01-2003, 01:31
Wow, so many near misses with teams this year. Let's be safe out there everybody! A little safety precaution goes a long way because it does not take much to be seiously injured and serious injuries are not cool. Lets not give the paramedics any business this year!
Sean Roberts, EMT-1
former Safety Officer, Team 330
Alex Forest
21-01-2003, 11:21
Hmm. This year we thought it would be fun to go riding down the nice ramp. On little carts, you know the ones for mock competitions. I, of course, being the sane one in the group watched carefully to see that no one killed themselves. ANYWAYS, they decided, hmm lets see if we can do spins. Right. So, they turned the ramp so they could have the most room to go flying down it. which happened to be directly into a large steel door. (we were in our schools auto body shop) needless to say, there is now a large dent in this supposedly steel door. *sigh*
Jeff Waegelin
21-01-2003, 12:56
We did something similar with our 2001 bot at a demo one time. We were at parent-teacher conferences, in a school hall way, and we accidentally whacked the wall with our arms, leaving a big black mark on the wall. Later that day, we almost tipped it onto a parent. That robot's just a little dangerous for demos. It's retired now...
Munkaboo
21-01-2003, 16:32
I cut my finger by playing with a vice... .... ?
Matt Attallah
21-01-2003, 17:45
Well, I think i am one, if not the only one, here that hasn't shead any blood/hurt for FIRST. All 4 (yes, Four) years that i have been on my team, I don't recall being hurt, even by a stupid vice grip or anything... Hmmmm, i must not be working hard enough...
I will say, though, I have shead tears before... :rolleyes:
sevisehda
21-01-2003, 20:21
I've been doing FIRST for 3 years with no injuries but today after school I cut my hand peeling an orange and had to get stitches.
Originally posted by sevisehda
I've been doing FIRST for 3 years with no injuries but today after school I cut my hand peeling an orange and had to get stitches.
I have done that, I have a scare... and it was after school but like not at FIRST
ChewyMasterFlex
22-01-2003, 01:00
Major Arthritis from designing for over 10 hours in the same chair nonstop....
FAKrogoth
22-01-2003, 12:53
We occasionally get injuries from the power tools, usually from the older users (our instructor is fairly klutzy. Fortunately, twenty years of construction work have given him the reflexes required to not shred his hands). They were usually relatively minor (drilling of thumbs and burns most often). However, we did destroy two drill bits in 15 minutes last year.
What we were told was angle iron turned out to have some interesting thermal properties. When it got hot, it got hard. One drill bit shattered, and the teacher came over to "show how it should be done." He said the secret was constant, large force while drilling. He attempted it, and the oil smoked, the angle iron turned funny colors, and the drill bit developed a healthy glow. Mr. J. stopped when it was cherry red, and starting to deform. As for the angle iron, it was barely nicked!:ahh:
Crazy stuff . . .
Originally posted by Alex Forest
Hmm. This year we thought it would be fun to go riding down the nice ramp. On little carts, you know the ones for mock competitions. I, of course, being the sane one in the group watched carefully to see that no one killed themselves. ANYWAYS, they decided, hmm lets see if we can do spins. Right. So, they turned the ramp so they could have the most room to go flying down it. which happened to be directly into a large steel door. (we were in our schools auto body shop) needless to say, there is now a large dent in this supposedly steel door. *sigh*
I was in no way involved as always such immaturity and reckeless disregard would not have been allowed on my watch
sevisehda
23-01-2003, 01:30
While assembling the ramp today I smashed my thumb with a hammer, more stitches to add to yesterdays orange incident. Needless to say my lefthand is utterly useless now.
Gamer930
23-01-2003, 07:34
Originally posted by sevisehda
While assembling the ramp today I smashed my thumb with a hammer, more stitches to add to yesterdays orange incident. Needless to say my lefthand is utterly useless now.
More stitches????? Why would you need stitches for a smashed thumb??
My injurie last year. Putting the robot in a SUV to get it to some presentation. (normal routine) I got into the front of the truck to grab it as it came in and also to guide it along. I got my hand caught under and made a big gash on my wrist. I still have a scare where it happened.
Tytus Gerrish
26-02-2003, 13:10
I have had more injuries accedents broken windows trips stuff falling on me and
Pnewmaticly launching steel bolts out of pvc tubes and breaking windows
Ryan Albright
26-02-2003, 15:43
well we where fermicaining (cant spell) and you dont want to do that in a closed enviroment which we were doing so about a hour in we all got a little happy and started chasing each ohter around with power tools on the mechanics chairs that was great
Da SPAMinatress
26-02-2003, 16:39
hmm.... last year at KSC regionals, i ran into a turnstyle and flipped over it, and had a bruise the size of a grapefruit on the side of my knee.... not fun
and at nationals last year, i was running up the bleachers outside after the party on saturday night, to get our t-shirt quilt down with a bunch of other ppl on my team, and what i thought was a step, was only an extension to another step, and i fell and scraped the skin off my palm on the chair, skinned my knee on the next step up, and i cut my chest on the metal bar that held up the chairs
... good times, good times...:rolleyes:
Tytus Gerrish
26-02-2003, 16:50
Thats the kind of damage Our Gator launcher causes
(thas when you launch steel bolts out of a tube!!)
i drilled a hole in my hand...
I have luckily been realitivly injury free except for a few burns a scratches but probably one of my most embarassing injuries happened at Nats last year. On are mini bot we had originally used the ribbed tubing for our wire and had no trouble with it a regionals but during nats it was getting caught during practice so we decided to play it safe nd swith tubbing. Any the tubing was way to small for all of the wires so we figured we just need a sturdy hole on the wire so we tied one had to a support rigging. And were trying to thread the wire through. However we had to much tension and in the middle of pulling it through the wire snapped clean through in the middle sending everyone sprawling. I ended up backstepping right into my team at banging or head to gether then falling on a hammer (can some one please tell me why that hammer was there?)
PS In case u are curious we eventually did get it threaded and had no more trouble with the mini!
Gadget470
26-02-2003, 21:23
Last year with 247 we had a pair of non work related injuries.
Chris-
At the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Chris was unwillingly put up for a crowd surf to a less than mediocre house band. Well.. he ran out of people to hold him up and two girls broke his fall at about stomach to shoulder level. He ended up landing on his neck, nearly breaking it. After security said "Have him sit out a few songs and take a breather" our mentor called an ambulence.
Chris had severe hemoraging in his neck and lost all vital signs twice during the night.
He's fine now though. If it hasn't been said enough already, his family and he thanks the FIRST community for their support after the incident.
Trevor aka T-Funk-
Trevor was an excited kid. While he cheered our bot on during the first round of eliminations he jumped up, came down, and well.. didn't jump right back up again. He tore his ACL cheering for us.
On the job injuries?
Well for me twice I had a piece of our robot that is actuated by pnumatics hit me. once on top of the head, the other time it cut my neck right next to my throat. Scary stuff.
Vincent Chan
26-02-2003, 21:41
--I was soddering something, and Paul and I turned to face each other at the same moment, and I stabbed him in the hand with the iron. Prophetically, we had dubbed the iron 'the cauterizing iron' just days before. It only burnt about the flat end of a stick pen's worth of area of his skin, and it wasn't deep, but that sizzle sounded nasty.
--Jay, the freshman on our team, likes to throw tools. It's not too bad when it's closed wire strippers or all-in-one crimpers or even bolts, but he's tried, more than once, to toss me a screwdriver. I've had many close encounters, and after two days with him, I decided just to let them fall before trying to grab them. (He's in line for some disciplining using the pneumatics-tubing whip. ;) )
Yan Wang
26-02-2003, 21:51
Cut myself with parts on both my left and right hand at least 4 times. Took off a 1 mm thick piece of skin on my right index finger. Robot fell on my head, BOUNCED OFF, CAUGHT BY SOMEONE, and I fell to the ground; head bleeding. Sanded finger nail.
Background:
Our robot has two giant plastic "ears" made out of cut and rounded panels of the plastic that tops the ramp. These are rotated from a raised position to a lowered (and "outward") position by the Nippon window motors.
Now guess what? Not one, not two, not three, but four of our team members have been smacked by these wings accidentally at various times because they happened to be standing in the wrong place while we tested the controls or autonomous mode.
I myself took the worst blow, I was kneeling next to the robot when the auton mode caused a wing to swing down full-force into the very tip of my shoulder. It hurt like hell for about a minute and scraped me, but never even bruised. Luckily I don't injure very easily.
(I also have the honor of being the only person who's been hit twice by the things, just a few minutes before this happened one scraped one of my knuckles when it came down on my hand.)
I know that's peanuts to some of the nasty stuff other people have taken; the funny part is how often it happens. :D
We had a parents day at our school last year, and we decided to have our robot there as a demo. Anyways, we said, who cares, lets let all the kids drive it around. Well, before the words were even 20 seconds out of my mouth Omar had managed to drive the robot right through someone's grandmother.
pauluffel
26-02-2003, 22:11
Yeah Chan, I still have a mark from the cauterizing iron. I even got cauterized a few days before that by our Dremel. While cutting fake lexan (yes, fake lexan) with a cutting wheel, I accidentally touched the wheel with my finger, leaving a groove in my finger (grooves look amazing different from plain cuts, you should try it some time). Thankfully, the wound didn"t bleed at all because the wheel was hot enough to seal the cut as soon as it was made.
SkitzoSmurf
26-02-2003, 22:28
Ummm, quincey, funny story. Our robot has a modular involving pneumatic wings, and a girl happened to walk by the side when we opened them, SMACK! She wasnt hurt, I hope. . . But boy was she surprised!
David Lantz
26-02-2003, 23:01
I haven't read through all of this thread so I don't know how many times this has happened to other people.
About once or twice every night I was able to maime (is that spelled right?) some part of my person. My favorite memory of this came when I was using our chop saw and came close to not having 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. I didn't realize this until I started bleeding all over the bot. Oh well, water and duck-tape fixed that.
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