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beware of big bits of metal.

a bit ago I was attempting to get a transit propshaft apart, the kind with a middle joint. one end held in the vice, the other end propped on a handy surface. The middle flange has a bolt in the centre, holding it onto one half of the shaft, and this has to be removed to get the flange off and remove the centre support bearing, which is buggered, and it's a right bloody fiddle getting the bolt out, as its head is in the middle of a UJ.

At exactly the wrong moment the propped end slipped and came >< that close to cutting the end of my left index finger, or it felt like it at the time.

Actually, it's nastily crushed but not broken and should recover OK, but it's sodding painful.

take it easy out there and be aware that heavy things can hurt.

Reply to
Austin Shackles
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You and Steve T can start an 'i almost chopped my finger off' club ;)

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Reply to
Tom Woods

Hope it stops hurting in short order Austin. Did you really expect anything different from a sodding Ford though? ;-)

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EMB

And me, twice as I had a go at two fingers, but not in car maintenance. Cutting plaster board with a stanley knife.

Blade enters index finger of left hand just at the base of the nail exits a little lower down the finger and about 1/4" from the nail base on the other side of the finger, funny white thing visible clearly visible at the bottom of the cut, 9 stiches. Blade carries on into third finger entering half way down the side just above the first joint, exits 3/4 across the width at the joint, only 6 stiches in that one.

This happened in Feb 2000, I was back home after the trip to the cottage hospital and being stiched up inside 2hrs. A benefit of being remote... I still don't have pain/touch feeling in the cut end of the index finger but I never lost hot/cold for some reason.

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Dave Liquorice

"Austin Shackles" wrote

I mangled mine in a mower**, got it all put back together OK the next day up at the Chelsea and Westminster Hand Specialist and then got gangrene. Surgeon said he didn't realise it was a dirty injury!!! I had told him it was done by a rough grass mower with possibly dog, cat, fox, rat and swan crap involved. Sometimes they just don't listen. Best wishes Austin from one who knows the pain.

** too quick to clear a blockage, didn't wait for the blades to stop! Very common injury they said. Not to me I said.
Reply to
Bob Hobden

Ouch. When I was self-employed, I did a similar nasty to myself. I had a small amount of wood (oak, I think) to remove from a rebate on a block I was making for some purpose. The amount was small, the time was short, so I held the block in my left hand as I chiselled with the right. I was using a 1/4" chisel, just sharpened on a waterstone, so it was razor sharp. One slip, and the chisel entered my left index finger at the side, so deep that the bevel on the blade was covered. Must have chopped a nerve, as I still have no feeling down that side of the finger. That was in 2002. Moral: *always* fasten things down properly, and always cut *away* from your own body parts. Yeah, yeah, like they teach you at Primary school. The five minutes you save by winging it are never worth it.

-- Rich B

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Rich B

Having worked in hospitals most of my life, I can tell a few tales of the amazing things people can do to their fingers and erm, other body parts.

You may find a little relief by gently strapping the injured finger to its neighbour, Austin. Tesco's Brufen or Ibuprofen, is a good cheap and effective anti-inflammatory and pain reliever too.

I speak as one who shut his fingers in a Discovery door......

TonyB

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TonyB

Aye, in my case I had even crossed my arms! I was making a single socket hole in some plasterboard into a double socket one, extending the hole to the left. Lefthand holding PB through hole to steady it, right hand dragging stanly knife through plaster board to the left of my left hand and towards it...

In my case I *should* have gone and found the pruning saw blade that fits the stanly handle to cut the plaster board. Not only is it easier to cut the board with it's quicker and much reduced risk if it slips as there is nowhere near the force behind it as there was behind that stanly blade.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

On or around Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:29:09 +0100, "TonyB" enlightened us thusly:

I did take ibuprofen the other night, 'cos it was a bit hurty. not so bad now unless I prod it...

Reply to
Austin Shackles

Well don't friggin' prod it ...... Doh!

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Paul - xxx

ooooo!! I had a nasty trapping experience once when she shut her legs,,,, oooooooooo matron "Austin Shackles" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

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m4ckk

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