I like to joke that if I haven't drawn blood by nine AM, I'm having a bad day. Little nicks and burns are part of the game. It's not actually a daily thing, but anymore I don't even notice the small stuff until someone asks me why I'm bleeding. I should point out that with the medication I'm on a papercut can look serious to the untrained eye...
Otto Nobedder wrote:I like to joke that if I haven't drawn blood by nine AM, I'm having a bad day. Little nicks and burns are part of the game. It's not actually a daily thing, but anymore I don't even notice the small stuff until someone asks me why I'm bleeding. I should point out that with the medication I'm on a papercut can look serious to the untrained eye...
Steve S
That's one of the things I've never understood-how can I cut myself and notice for over an hour? Doesn't make any sense.
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Nick
Otto Nobedder wrote:I like to joke that if I haven't drawn blood by nine AM, I'm having a bad day. Little nicks and burns are part of the game. It's not actually a daily thing, but anymore I don't even notice the small stuff until someone asks me why I'm bleeding. I should point out that with the medication I'm on a papercut can look serious to the untrained eye...
Steve S
That's one of the things I've never understood-how can I cut myself and notice for over an hour? Doesn't make any sense.
I'll come in from work and my wife will ask why I have blood on my face...and i usually have no idea where it came from or what even happened to me.
Otto Nobedder wrote:I like to joke that if I haven't drawn blood by nine AM, I'm having a bad day. Little nicks and burns are part of the game. It's not actually a daily thing, but anymore I don't even notice the small stuff until someone asks me why I'm bleeding. I should point out that with the medication I'm on a papercut can look serious to the untrained eye...
Steve S
That's one of the things I've never understood-how can I cut myself and notice for over an hour? Doesn't make any sense.
Your mind is focused on the task, and you're so accustomed to minor pains, one overrides the other.
That's all I can figure. Until you get in the acetone... THEN the day's adventures become "painfully" clear...
Ironically I was reading this post and thinking about why my arm was raw feeling. Then I remembered all those scratches came from 8 am when I wedged my arm in to clean out a hole in a wall.
Otto Nobedder wrote:I like to joke that if I haven't drawn blood by nine AM, I'm having a bad day. Little nicks and burns are part of the game. It's not actually a daily thing, but anymore I don't even notice the small stuff until someone asks me why I'm bleeding. I should point out that with the medication I'm on a papercut can look serious to the untrained eye...
Steve S
That's one of the things I've never understood-how can I cut myself and notice for over an hour? Doesn't make any sense.
Your mind is focused on the task, and you're so accustomed to minor pains, one overrides the other.
That's all I can figure. Until you get in the acetone... THEN the day's adventures become "painfully" clear...
Steve S
Acetone? Oh yeah..... The stuff I call "Liquid Cut Finder"!
"Why is there never time to do anything right the first time but always time to do it again?"
exnailpounder wrote: I'll come in from work and my wife will ask why I have blood on my face...and i usually have no idea where it came from or what even happened to me.
Actually this is one of the signs of alien abduction, Jeff any other odd or unusual physical or mental issues?
I am sitting here reading this , and both of my hands got bloody today, broke a tap handle, and busted my knuckles, then the other hand slid across the broken part, and I almost pissed down my leg when I picked up and moved a soaked with Acetone towel....
Thespian is just an old username I have used forever , my name is Bill
You all must use a ton of acetone or something. It's like all of you have a ton of experience with the "cut finder" I have never had this issue. I usually find my cuts by getting some diesel, gas, oil, dirt, gravel, or my favorite grease- the dirt and grease darken everything except the cut-the cut is very vibrant and easily shown.
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Nick
I worked with mitered and lots of cut angles of aluminum extrusions for a long time and those things will just unzip you and you'd never even know it. Those weird razor like ones that don't bleed for a little bit, then dripdripdrip...
It wasn't odd at all to hear it called out in the shop- "Who's bleeding?".
If you cut up hot chillis, like harbineros or similar, wash your hands BEFORE going to the toilet. (Or putting your fingers into someplace important). A funny story until it happens to you.
exnailpounder wrote: I'll come in from work and my wife will ask why I have blood on my face...and i usually have no idea where it came from or what even happened to me.
Actually this is one of the signs of alien abduction, Jeff any other odd or unusual physical or mental issues?
weldin mike 27 wrote:If you cut up hot chillis, like harbineros or similar, wash your hands BEFORE going to the toilet. (Or putting your fingers into someplace important). A funny story until it happens to you.
Farmwelding wrote:You all must use a ton of acetone or something. It's like all of you have a ton of experience with the "cut finder" I have never had this issue. I usually find my cuts by getting some diesel, gas, oil, dirt, gravel, or my favorite grease- the dirt and grease darken everything except the cut-the cut is very vibrant and easily shown.
Brake and carb cleaner finds them too. Nothing is more of a nuisance than a metal sliver you don't know you have until you touch another piece of metal or put on gloves....then you can't get the damned thing out.
Farmwelding wrote:You all must use a ton of acetone or something. It's like all of you have a ton of experience with the "cut finder" I have never had this issue. I usually find my cuts by getting some diesel, gas, oil, dirt, gravel, or my favorite grease- the dirt and grease darken everything except the cut-the cut is very vibrant and easily shown.
Brake and carb cleaner finds them too. Nothing is more of a nuisance than a metal sliver you don't know you have until you touch another piece of metal or put on gloves....then you can't get the damned thing out.
My old "college days" hemostats have a prominent place in my tool box just for removing such annoyances...
Farmwelding wrote:You all must use a ton of acetone or something. It's like all of you have a ton of experience with the "cut finder" I have never had this issue. I usually find my cuts by getting some diesel, gas, oil, dirt, gravel, or my favorite grease- the dirt and grease darken everything except the cut-the cut is very vibrant and easily shown.
Brake and carb cleaner finds them too. Nothing is more of a nuisance than a metal sliver you don't know you have until you touch another piece of metal or put on gloves....then you can't get the damned thing out.
My old "college days" hemostats have a prominent place in my tool box just for removing such annoyances...
We all have a past. No two alike, but often with similarities. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Stories and scars are similar creatures. Precious to who we've become, and better with each telling.
Farmwelding wrote:You all must use a ton of acetone or something. It's like all of you have a ton of experience with the "cut finder" I have never had this issue. I usually find my cuts by getting some diesel, gas, oil, dirt, gravel, or my favorite grease- the dirt and grease darken everything except the cut-the cut is very vibrant and easily shown.
Brake and carb cleaner finds them too. Nothing is more of a nuisance than a metal sliver you don't know you have until you touch another piece of metal or put on gloves....then you can't get the damned thing out.
My old "college days" hemostats have a prominent place in my tool box just for removing such annoyances...
Steve S
Sorry but my youth and inexperience have just kicked in. What the he'll is hemostats? Again just young and dumb.
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Nick
"Hemostat" literally means "hold blood", and is a small, high precision surgical vascular clamp. They are very popular among potheads as "roach clips" to hold the very short remnant of a joint. They are very popular with me as they are also high-precision tweezers for removing the tiniest metal slivers.
Otto Nobedder wrote:"Hemostat" literally means "hold blood", and is a small, high precision surgical vascular clamp. They are very popular among potheads as "roach clips" to hold the very short remnant of a joint. They are very popular with me as they are also high-precision tweezers for removing the tiniest metal slivers.
Steve S
I think you just called me a pothead, I didn't know you could take slivers out with those things...I use tweezers
