A friend of mine decided to glue to bits of perspex to me while I was drilling something and couldn't move. I thought it was just normal hotglue so ripped it off, took my skin with it.
well..... add another injury to the list. was using cordless drill to drill a hole in my case frame and was holding frame with left hand. all the other holes didnt go very fast but for some reason this one did and i pushing pretty good on it. well, i didnt think too much and my left hand was just on the other side and the drill was going full speed and went right into my hand. right at the base of my index finger. i felt something and saw it in there and quickly took it out. it looked so gross all chopped up from the drill bit. went inside and LOTS of blood!! doesnt hurt actually. lol my mom wondered if i needed to go to the hospital but i can move it and feel it so im fine. not bleeding anymore. the water in the sink was totally red and i couldn't stand up for a while as i felt like puking or passing out. it looks very gross now. happened less than an hour ago.
when I was in high school (6 years ago...) I got into modding and was working on an old steel case. I got a bit over eager with a cable, pulled too hard, and managed to take a good chunk of skin off the top of my finger, right near the nail. Those steel case edges are SHARP! Thankfully the skin was still hanging on by a little bit, so I was able to let it heal in place. There's still a good looking scar though. I've been relatively lucky when comes to modding injuries though. There's been plenty of soldering iron burns, a few glue gun burns, but nothing real serious. Woodworking on the other hand... a family friend recently managed to sever his thumb and part of his pointer with a circular saw...
I was tidying up some cables a few years back when my finger clipped a spinning high speed panaflo 120x38mm fan - made quite a deep gouge and bled quite profusely. I think that old case still has blood stains in it
have cut the tip off my finger, got spray paint in cuts that hurts, have at least 3 scares on each finger from knife incidents (not a modding accident but i have falling out a tree on to an electric fence...)
it looks like that was with a bigger drill bit. i used a #29 (which gets tapped for a 8-32 screw) i shoulda taken a pic. its mostly healed now. but if i woulda just let it sit my whole hand woulda been covered in blood. mine is drilled into right in the crease between the finger and palm. it actually hasnt hurt at all. didnt when it happened and hasnt yet. if i touch it it feels like a bruise. but that looks mighty painfull. way worse than mine. mine was just super bloody and yuck looking. oh and no blood was on the drill bit. a few days later i when i used it again there was skin on it though. lol
was at a mate's place a few years ago, desoldering some stuff...we didn't have a proper solder sucker so we were just heating up the solder then using a syringe to quickly suck it up... call it drinker's ingenuity anyway, i'm sure it was because of the drinks, but when the iron started to slip a little from my hand i reached out and grabbed it with my other hand...at the hot end. about a second later the heat registered in my brain and i've thrown the soldering iron onto my mates bed and run off to find a tap. no scars or any other evidence from that incident however had the usual assortment of small cuts etc, however all my best scars are from other incidents - like riding a pushbike into an electric fence (scar around my neck for about a week...electricity was turned off thankfully), a 7cm gash up the inside of my arm from jumping the pool fence at school, and a nice Y shaped scar from when a pole slipped out of the fork in a tree while i was trying to tie it down, and tore out a chunk of flesh (we had a tarp etc already over this pole, so there was some weight behind it) had a near miss with the mains power (240V) last year, trying to revive a CD changer that had the power cord cut. wired in an IEC connector, but didn't screw it down to the casing. pulled the power cord, the connector shorted on the casing and tripped the safety, with alot of sparks. luckily, i wasn't touching the casing at the time
