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No injury but I once spent many hours painting and weathering an HO scale Shay logging locomotive kit and when I was about to spray on a protective flat clear coat I accidentally grabbed gray primer and ruined one side.
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Jimster wrote:No injury but I once spent many hours painting and weathering an HO scale Shay logging locomotive kit and when I was about to spray on a protective flat clear coat I accidentally grabbed gray primer and ruined one side.
Talk about an “oh no” second!!!


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Jimster wrote:No injury but I once spent many hours painting and weathering an HO scale Shay logging locomotive kit and when I was about to spray on a protective flat clear coat I accidentally grabbed gray primer and ruined one side.
Oh wow. That by far worse than an injury.
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Yes. I would rather have sliced some bacon off my thumb with a dull Xacto #11 blade.
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Reminds me of the melting finger prints into plastic with plastic glue.. How many models have been ruined by my own stupidity!
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Mic wrote:Reminds me of the melting finger prints into plastic with plastic glue.. How many models have been ruined by my own stupidity!
Oh yeah, I remember doing that as a lad. But I learnt not to do it again :P lol
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A couple of weeks ago while using a very fine needle like screwdriver to remove a small stubborn screw on my 222 it slipped entering through the side of my thumb and exiting through the top :O luckily it just went through the skin and didn't enter the fleshie bit 8O it took a second for it to sink in while I sat there with a screwdriver hanging out of my thumb :/ :lolno:

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Ok, I give in, let's tell you about something REALLY dumb I once did. . . .

To cut a long story short, imagine a very hard piece of metal (stainless spring type steel) backed up by a very soft bit of plastic. And you only need an 1/8th inch hole in the metal. The item is a weird shape to support, got no vice available, I know, let's hold it in my hand. . . .

Yep, you guessed correctly what I did to the webbed part between thumb and forefinger :{ :{ :{
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And to think they shut all those mental hospitals in the 70s and 80s when this forum alone could have filled a couple of wards quite easily :S
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Son of a gun-ner wrote:Ok, I give in, let's tell you about something REALLY dumb I once did. . . .

To cut a long story short, imagine a very hard piece of metal (stainless spring type steel) backed up by a very soft bit of plastic. And you only need an 1/8th inch hole in the metal. The item is a weird shape to support, got no vice available, I know, let's hold it in my hand. . . .

Yep, you guessed correctly what I did to the webbed part between thumb and forefinger :{ :{ :{
Did you cry? 8O
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