close shaves???

[Mouldy]

Re: close shaves???

caught my thumb in a gearbox and crushed my nail

Burnt a thread into my hand after grabing a 20mm bolt id just welded

burnt a piece of coper wire into my thumb after it shorted across two battery terminals

set my leg on fire

set my hair on fire

had turbulence's flipper go off when i was turning the gas on

had a pneumatic pipe burst infront of my face

had a fw's flipper fire onto my forehead and nock me out (first flipper- good job it was rubbish)

stuck my hand to a cold co2 bottle

droped a heavyweight on my toe n broke it

saw my robot drive itself of a pit bench (before fw's had to have links)

not bolted metal down on the pillar drill properly and sliced my thumb open when its snaged

had coolant go in my eye

.. i could go on but ive chosen to forget about alot of them, and im ALOT more cautious now

[grant_ploughbot]

Re: close shaves???

Let mouldy in our workshop

[cliveb]

Re: close shaves???

stagefright.(enough said)

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: close shaves???

droped a heavyweight on my toe n broke it

Your toe or the heavyweight?

[Mouldy]

Re: close shaves???

toe.

[muchalucha]

Re: close shaves???

woo , thats a lot of close shaves !!

[daliad100]

Re: close shaves???

Not a robotic based close shave but when soldering an electronics project, a friend decided it would be a good idea to sneak up behind me and scare me. I dropped the soldering iron and (rather stupidly) caught it by the very hot bit.

[joey_picus]

Re: close shaves???

Slashed my finger open with a Stanley knife the morning before AWS29

Ripped some of my hair out when it got caught around a manic robot's wheel :P

There's probably going to be more...

[calumco]

Re: close shaves???

i don't know about everyone else, but i would say my most common robot related injury is cutting myself on sharp edges, like on TJ2 i've got a steel plate- ground down to a VERY flat edge and after fights when its not safley covered up im always slicing my fingers on it.

also it hurts when you drive a robot into your legs because you get a bit carried away with driving it at home

[craig_anto]

Re: close shaves???

had Tanto knock me over while testing in my garden twice,
Nicad fire at folkestone ( I seemed the only one willing to get my hands in the robot while the cells were popping),
LiPo exploxed in my hand after fighting at an AWS,
loss of feeling in my left wedding finger at microbotics back in 02????,
dislocated ankle from new feather i built,
had to duck out the way of a flipped robot (HW) while testing,
at robot wars series 6 qualifying was electricuted by a dodgey charger while trying to fit failsafes to someone elses robot, shared a room with John Lear Snr in Ireland,
met Mike Lambert and the closest I ever came to death with a robot was when me and Jonno drove Kan Opener after a ''few'' drinks at billing in the middle of the night

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: close shaves???

shared a room with John Lear Snr in Ireland

I've done the usual, grabbed the wrong end of the soldering iron, cut myself on various sharp edges etc.
Dropped a robot onto my fingers sharp-ended wedge first when I was trying to put it on a shelf in the YH bedroom at the UKRG 05 finals and it slipped out my grasp.
Hacksawed into my finger when I was trying to cut off a boss on a metal bike gear while having it clamped in a pair of mole grips, which was held by my hand.
Dremel-sawed into my finger when I was cutting plastic gears off a small model shaft.
Drilled a nice 3mm hole in my hand when rush-fitting the self-righting hoops on Drumroll the day before the UK champs last year.

The majority of injuries were sustained before I got a workbench to work on.
Haven't really done anything else major in a long time - I think I'm due a big screw-up soon

[anukhet]

Re: close shaves???

I broke a nail picking up Small Torque out of the arena

[team_orr]

Re: close shaves???

.got my finger jammed in a randomly spinning drill motor

.got my finger jammed in a spinning sd200

sliced my finger on a bandsaw

.sliced my finger on a Stanly knife blade

dropped a fw on my hand and broke a finger

my finger aint doing too well

[muchalucha]

Re: close shaves???

just last night i had to much solder on the end of the soldering iron , so being an idiot , i tried to shake it off , i covered my arm in tiny blobs of molten metal , it hurt lol.

[craig_anto]

Re: close shaves???

you get used to that