/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I was disassembling an old CRT monitor to remove the flyback, and I forgot to short out the capacitors. Thankfully, I only burnt the everliving shit out of a finger, but christ did it hurt.

>replace front wheel on bike
>forget to lock it back in
>go down hill
>front wheel goes free
>barrel roll'd down hill

>Working with a pneumatic nail gun for first time
>This particular model worked by putting nail in and pressing it down, blasting it into the direction it was pushed into.
>Not know this and put nail in and push it in
>Nail shoots out into face

Thankfully it only left a scratch

Had a friend working on a saw damn near took his fingers off

>trimming wooden part with x-acto knife
>stab through my left index finger
>blade stopped when it hit fingernail from the inside

Thankfully it missed the bone, and healed up really well.

>>1657

My face went like this when you said fingernail

from my early DIY days:
>helping build homecoming float
>majority of fellow workers are retarded
>one girl dropped staple gun
>huge industrial size staples all over ground
>thought they'd all been picked up
>knelt down to hammer something
>staple hidden under plastic sheet went completely into my kneecap
>had to cut away the plastic sheet and then use pliers to remove staple

>outside with angle grinder and welder
>grinding rust off plate of steel to weld onto trailer
>"Fuck walking all the way to the shop in the basement to put this in the vise!"
>super-manly boot-powers activate
>holding down plate with foot, holding grinder in both hands
>de-rusting away, happy as a clam
>wheel catches side of plate

CHIK WHIZZ SKLITCH

anyway so now I can never feel anything on the back of my right index finger

always use a vise, comrades

A friend of mine does a bunch of cosplay. Though he has gotten into doing props and robot costumes. One of them called for using stilts and he wanted to create braces for his legs. So he had the brilliant idea of casting some extra fiber glass from the robot shell he had around his legs to make a stiff hold for his legs. Now he put extra socks and saran wrap or something between his foot and the fiberglass.

Yet he still let it harder to the point he could not get his foot out. We.. kinda got distracted playing Mario Kart. And he really didn't put wood or something that he could easily cut the fiberglass away from his leg. He realized he did not have one of those small circular saws used to cut casts. The best he had was a drummel and even then he didn't have any good saw bits. So he went through some sanding disks until the drummel started to smoke and filled up the whole garage.

Whelp.. Then he decided.. fuck it.. not going to the hospital.. I'll try the jigsaw... veeerrrrry carefully. I was on hand in case he knicked himself so I could stop the bleeding and call 911. He didn't hit anything major and only got a couple of small cuts. Holy shit did he goof that up.

>>2195

yet more evidence in support of my "everyone should carry a huge-ass serrated knife everywhere they go" theory

Electrocutions, stitches, 3rd degree burn (luckily it was only on my palm and not my whole body...fapped left handed for over a month), arc blindness (it's like sunburn on your cornea from looking at a welding arc without your welding helmet visor down) but the scariest shit that's ever happened to me is when I splashed molten solder into my eye. it missed the important bits and landed in the lower right corner of my right eye. It hurt worse than anything that's ever happened to me in my entire life, and I've had a filling without anesthesia (long story for another day) Have a weird scare there now when I look up...still hearing Joe Dirt jokes from my friends, four years after the fact.