>>2930419
>need to rip down a 4x1, 6x2 whatever
>grab skill saw
>cut towards me
>cut my middle finger tip damn near in half
>start going into slight shock
>start laughing my ass off
>mommy brings me to doctor
>4 stitches
I was 17

>felt like killing myself that day
>long depression
>grab skill saw
>had the bright idea to try and cut one of my hoodie strings off
>got much to close to my neck

>working on my van
>electrical issues
>looking at wires
>mice
>dig arm deeper into engine bay
>slip my elbow past metal support, or whatever it was
>arm stuck for 2 hours
>someone finally got home and grabbed some oil
>elbow bruised for weeks

>first time welding
>Thingy stops glowing
>grab the obviously still hot piece of metal
>*sound of meat in a frying pan* for a brief moment
Lesson learned

>>2930658
We all learn that lesson as kids sticking our finger on the cigarette lighter in our parents' car, must be a zoomie.

>>2930667
Cigarette lighters in cars... I'll bet you still stomp the floorboard when you go to turn on the high beams, too.

Most accidents and injuries are from willfully continuing with something you know is wrong.
No more cowboy shit, the amount of times I should've been skewered in the taint or abdomen by a piece of metal doing parcour to get to the back of my 10x10 shop when it's literally completely full and can't get to the back wall.
Same with mistakes on projects, if something seems like a bad idea, stop and get the right thing instead of doing more damage, did the same thing today on something because I didn't grab a torch.

>working in the baggage pit of an a300 jet
>go to step out on to the ladder, slip and fall 8 feet to the floor
>nothing hurt but my pride

>welding at home
>forget to wear arm covers
>get second degree burn on my left upper arm
>smells like cooked ham for 2 weeks
>probably will get cancer there

>walking across the hangar
>someone distracts me
>keep walking
>turn head back in direction I am walking
>walk right in to a piece of seat track sticking off of a storage shelf
>stitches on forehead

>11 years old
>building stuff with my dad in his really cool workshop
>use bandsaw
>cut a 1/16 in deep groove in my thumb
>my mother bans me from ever going back in there
>later she divorces my dad to get on welfare
>cunt

>my brother is climbing up a ladder rated at 250lbs
>he's 6'4" and over 300lbs at the time
>can you guess what happened next?
>he was over half way up to his roof
>whole thing caught on security camera
>messed up one of his knees and his back

>>2930709
oh shit made me laugh. but really though stompers died in the 80's mostly but smokers carried on strong through y2k.

>be 15
>have a coil of copper wire
>need a straight section for a project i was making
>need a handle to tug the wire to straighten it up
>get a bright idea that knife handle would do the job
>Wrap one end of a 3 meter wire around a radiator and the other around a knife handle
>tug
>oops, knife slipped
>a clean cut from the base of my thumb down to the base of my palm
Was too afraid to tell parents so i just washed it with peroxide and closed it with bandaids
Did you know that meat inside of your hand is purple? And tendons are off white.

>>2930725
boy that story took a turn in the end

>cut chain lock with angle grinder
>pick up hot bit of chain
>TSHHHHHHH
Don't say give it back Jamal, it was my lock.

>>2930839
give it back shanequa

One time I was cutting the sleeves off a polo I was wearing while I was driving, using a pocket knife, and I hit a bump then cut my arm pretty bad

>>2930419
>removing cabinets from Metro station in telecom room
>ask coworker to kill the breaker
>test circuit, it's dead
>start cutting wires
>BOOM
>mfw home runs to each cabinet

Same day

>removing conduit from cabinets
>conduit locknut only backs off 1/8th of an inch. not enough room to pull it out of the cabinet
>go up the escalators to the work van to grab my grinder
>get to the top of the station
>pigeon standing by the door
>open the door for the pigeon and watch him walk right out
>grab the grinder
>grind the locknut off the conduit
>set off the smoke detectors
>fire alarms going off in Metro station
>fire department shows up
>tell them we must've kicked up some dust despite it smelling like a welding shop in the closet (no hot work permit)
>they buy it

>>2930419
>direct competitor install non uv rated indoor only cable penetrating roof to antenna
>cable is completely destroyed despite being only a year old
>offer solution of pulling new properly rated cable to directly replace old cable
>customer says yes and we go back the next day
>tape old cable to new cable with a few rolls of electrical tape
>lube up the new cable
>go up stairs and start pulling
>pull out my back for the first time in my life in early 20s
>give up pulling
>take the 150 feet of conduit apart on the roof to finish the job
>fire department inspector shows up and aggressively scolds me for fixing work the original company should've fixed
>"just doing my job bro"
>he chills out and I give him the damaged cable while he starts bitching that he'll ban our competitor from his city

competitor continues to install this cable outside for another year. When they're finally forced to fix the issue they cheap out and paint the cable with uv resistant paint. Guess what it's still not weather rated. Buddy who works their suggested using the correct cable and management told him to shut the fuck up.

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>Installing a specialized computer set up in a new police department
>Going the extra miles to make everything look good
>Installing clips and screws under the desk to hold the wires in place.
>Particle board particles get in my eye because I wasn't wearing safety glasses
>Spend the rest of the day crying and washing my eyes out at the sink


>Fixing corroded electrical connector
>Have my safety glasses on
>Soak the entire thing in contact cleaner
>Move the wire and connector rather quickly to start soaking the other side
>A drop of contact cleaner somehow gets around my safety glasses and lands in my eye
>Look like this the rest of the day

>Parents installing a new oven
>Volunteer to wire it since they're not really all that handy
>Lose grip of the grounding wire while trying to tighten it
>Reflex kick in and have moves to catch it
>Back panel of the oven is all rough cut sheet metal because who's going to be behind the oven?
>Inch long, deep gash in my palm
>Just clean and bandage it, have to change bandages a bunch since it probably needed stitches, or a butterfly at the very least


>Switch to shaving with a double edge safety razor
>Go whole hog and buy a pack of a brazillion off Amazon
>Also have a 3D printer
>Make some silly holder for the razor blade with no real purpose outside of maybe decorative cuts in dough before baking
>Screwing it together to play with it
>Hand slips, screwdriver turns, blade twists out
>Another deep gash in my finger

>Building Pinewood Derby car for Cub Scouts
>Doing something with a pencil and really going crazy with it, scribbling madly with an ice pick grip
>Run off the car and stab myself in the palm
>Still have a graphite colored mark almost 30 years later

And the best part? This is all my left hand. This isn't mentioning numerous other things that happened to it like dislocated middle finger in 4th grade, smashing the tip of my thumb at work, getting stabbed in the palm by someone else with a pencil about an inch over from my 'car accident', and a punch of other little scars I don't have specific memories for.

>be 19
>fancy a female
>lets carve her a thing out of balsa because I'm poor
>get bored with task
>decide to do a big cut to save time
>knife stuck
>change my grip and pull harder
>knife goes thru the wood
>knife goes thru my hand
She did, but also called me a retard for slicing myself

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>have an old TV for my Nintendo as a kid
>TV dies one day
>sits there broken for a year
>one day curiosity gets the best of me
>open it up with a butter knife because no screwdriver
>see something like pic related
>it's been unplugged for a year, what can go wrong?
>start taking off every screw I can find
>knife manages to touch both contacts of a large capacitor
>ZAP
>drop knife and recoil in shock
>felt like someone had punched me as hard as possible in my fingertip, knife had a black burn mark on it
>mum hears commotion, comes in and yells at my dumb ass and I get in trouble

My hand was numb for a few minutes and red but that was it, I learned what a capacitor was that day.

>>2930930
you absolute buffoon

>>2931260
>recoil in shock

I see what you did there.

>be me, a kid
>salvaging old hard drive for magnets
>no eyepro
>decide to smash the plate as hard as I can
>shit flies everywhere except into my eyes
>pause for a second
>think how incredibly lucky free lesson I've just received
>never go without eyepro again

>middle school
>in the middle of class, my pencil is dull
>no pencil sharpener on hand
>I’ve used a knife before to sharpen pencils, scissors are fancy knives, why not use scissors to sharpen my pencil?
>use scissors to sharpen pencil, except the blade manages to slip and leaves a deep cut right on the joint of my right thumb since I was using that hand to hold the blade.
>blood starts pouring, very little pain surprisingly, think I could see my muscles since I cut that deep
>class just stares at me, I go to the office
>You’ll need stitches anon! Go home with a bandaid on the cut.
>dad literally just uses paper towel to compress and stop the bleeding, then superglues it shut so it’s not bleeding
>gets properly bandaged, have to go through like 2-3 bandages because the old ones get all crusty
>scar isn’t that big, and thumb mobility isn’t impeded, stitches would’ve probably fucked it up worse.
I also managed to staple that same thumb while trying to refill a stapler with fresh staples and that fucking HURT

>be me
>be smith/welder apprentice
>get assigned to cut and assemble PVC piping on my own
>have to clean all the cut ends of pipes with strong chemicals before putting pvc glue on both sides of the joint
>this creates an amazing seal so you have to move quick and make sure you use the right joints at the right angles
>UnsupervisedApprentice.exe
>inevitably fuck up and glued the wrong joints together and only noticed after i assembled another the wrong way
>grab coworker to get advice and help to fix
>observe coworker fix one
>coworker fucks off to narnia, so i try to fix the other fuckup
>slap it with an angle grinder and try to wiggle the rest of it off with non-locking folding pocket knife
>need alot of force and wiggles in different directions
>wiggle in the wrong direction and snap knife shut onto my finger holding the hilt
>panic
>look around for coworkers
>spot one behind me who wasnt welding
>stare at cut while washing it to try to find out if i need stitches
>decide i need stitches
>coworker puts on bandage and i tell my boss i think i need stitches
>fuck off towards local hospital
>dunno how to go to ER
>text mom
>says i need to call even more local doctors office and have them look at my finger before they can tell me to go to ER
>at this point 2 hours has passed while im wearing a tight bandage and my fingertip has gone from normal in colour to blue, purple, grey and then back to purple
>panic setting in
>finally get to doctors office
>get told to wash my hand
>doctor plugs the sink and lets water run filling the sink
>tear off bandage and put my hand in
>bleed so much i make an underwater pool of blood
>doctor pretty much calls me a pussy
>glues the wound shut and bandages it
>now have sick scar

>>2931366

like 2 weeks later
>get told to have to help coworker roll some steel plates
>two coworkers pull out roller from smaller room into bigger hall then fuck off to narnia
>UnsupervisedApprentice.exe
>think ill be useful while waiting and plug in the electric roller
>now what
>decide to turn on the roller and play with it
>move the adjustment roller up and down and notice it isnt level
>idea.jpg
>be useful and try to level it
>make it go all the way to the bottom
>sure enough one side reached the bottom first
>keep pressing button and wait for the other side to reach bottom
>other side hits the bottom
>thought i heard a click noise
>push button to move it up
>nothing happens
>panic
>try holding up button for a bit, still nothing
>hurry and unplug the roller again put everything back to where it was when coworkers left
>coworkers get back and plug in roller
>doesnt move
>act suprised
>coworkers clueless
>end up finding out i snapped two pins holding the adjustment roller
>spend 2 hours fixing it
>quit 2 weeks later on unrelated reason
nobody knows it was me despite a security camera being pointed straight at where it all happened

>>2930658
>holding sulfur over flame with a spatula in science class
>spatula red hot, cool blue flame too
>spatula stops glowing
>put spatula away for the day
>*sound of meat in a frying pan* for a brief moment

>>2930419
You are honestly lucky it wasn't worse. Those things can explode. Could have maimed you, deafened you, etc. Welding anywhere near it is crazy stupid.

>>2930419
Fab a rolling dolly base for a truck or car seat. I used a driver seat and base from an early oughts GM van, and a pax seat from some car I forget since it was in self-service salvage. Then I used a car seat on a dolly holding a powered recliner base.

No chair has the engineering invested in crashworthy vehicle seats.

If you can rape the powered base out of a junk electric recliner (which I did to disassemble it for easy movement and disposal) you can as I did bolt that to a seat base and use both sets of adjustments. Powered recliners exist to raise diabeests who cannot stand so you want one for your old age.

Make the dolly wide enough to be (very) stable. Use non-marring casters if that matters.

>>2930722
>>forget to wear arm covers

Sunscreen is my friend. Make it yours.

>>2930709
>Cigarette lighters in cars...

Were deleted for cost reasons but make excellent high amp power sources. Not that you non-mechanic filth would ever think of that.

>>2931471
What are you talking about? I used cigarette lighters in cars plenty, I even used them as a power point before they were phased out into nothing but a power point. I also had a car with floorboard high beams still.

>>2931468
Explode how? It is a metal cylinder with some compressed nitrogen inside, is not explosive or anything.

>>2931552
not him but
what happens to nitrogen when it gets hot in compression.
you were lucky the expanding gas broke the internals before it found a less controlled escape for all the superheated pressurised gas.
mate of mine almost lost an eye trying to weld a gas strut directly to a metal bracket. thing just popped and sent chunk of the case through his cheek.

>>2930435
>had the bright idea to try and cut one of my hoodie strings off

Heard a great story on a radio call in show once discussing this same subject-
>finish carpenters are on 2nd floor
> tell idiot gofer/cleanup guy to grab them some rope to tie something back >how much?
> doesn't matter, we only need like 6 feet
> goes downstairs, time passes
> just as they begin to wonder wtf is taking so long, hear table saw start up
> idiot guy has no table saw training
> holy shit .exe
> run to edge of balcony just in time to see idiot guy holding rope to cut it on table saw, just about to contact blade
>pic related
At that point the caller starts laughing...host says c'mon, what happened? Did he get hurt?

Caller apologizes while still laughing, says oh yeah he made contact and got sucked in and cut both of his thumbs clean off HAHAHAHAHA!!!
host is like WTF is wrong with you? That's horrific!
Caller apologizes again and says yes it is, but the guy had the presence of mind to try to retrieve his thumbs to get them reattached, and have you ever seen a guy try to pick anything up with no thumbs?
Says it was like a slapstick routine and the guy kept saying "c'mon guys it's not funny, help me pick up my thumbs!" which they did but they couldn't stop laughing...

every caller after that one was laughing too for the rest of the show and so was the host. I guess the idiot guys thumbs got sewn back and kind of still worked but he had to look for other work.

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>>2931603
Shit, forgot picrel

>>2930944
Southpaws are Soo clumsy

>>2930936
Which metro

>>2930419
when i did this it wasn't compressed and a bunch of ooze just leaked out. didn't work afterward

this is much less impressive than the rest of the thread but it's my story
> dryer is being wonky
> wife notices the door sensor metal is bent
> gets pliers to pull it back
> snap
> dryer now dead
> get new door sensor
> unscrew everything to take the dryer top off
> forget about the plastic latch on the front and just pull straight up instead of forward then up
> snap
> realize there's also two bolts on the back that need to be removed so the top can lift off
> drag dryer back from wall to get at the bolts
> forget theres an exhaust hose
> snap
> unplug old dryer sensor
> realize it's screwed in as well
> unscrew it from the outside, forget it's not plugged in or attached to anything anymore
> thud
> try to take off the front panel to get the old sensor out from under the drum
> forget there are screws on the bottom bot just the sides
> snap (well bent but idk the onomotopia for that it was kinda like a snap)
> give up
> reattach exhaust hose (actually do things well for once)
> screw everything back together
> try to put the plastic covers over the screws back
> can't fucking tell up from down and just push as hard as I can because I'm already mad
> snap
> shove everything back together and hit it until it fits
> dryer works again
> throw laundry that's been sitting in the washer all day in, call it a day
> turn to go inside
> wet shirt on the ground
> thud

>>2931606
I'm not left handed. I can't remember the geometry of the oven to explain why I was using my left hand, but the other two were holding the thing in my left hand while I scribbled and screwed with my right.

>>2931606
>Southpaws are Soo clumsy
>>2932151
>I'm not left handed. I can't remember the geometry of the oven to explain why I was using my left hand, but the other two were holding the thing in my left hand while I scribbled and screwed with my right.

Righty here and my left gloves always wear out faster than my right because my left hand is my clamping/vise hand while I manipulate the finer details of the thing with my right hand.

>>2931351
>staple that same thumb while trying to refill a stapler with fresh staples

That reminds me of a story.

>Father has this fancy office stapler that uses a staple gun-like mechanism for stapling harder for penetrating more sheets
>Has a nailgun-like safety where it would fire unless a little tab is pressed down near the applicator
>Girlfriend is over, playing around with it shooting staples around, pressing the safety tab down with finger nail
>Girlfriend wants a try
>Does the girl thing and doesn't hold it right
>Drives a staple right through the tip of her finger and straight through her fingernail
>Have to chase her outside because she panics in pain over it
>Won't let me pull it out, has my father do it

The next few weeks were fun as we watched the hole in her fingernail grow out until it got clipped.

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>replacing switch
>do it live!
>open neuteral bundle
>lights flicker
>light above staircase bursts into flames
>light at top of stairs fries itself
>mfw

>Ripping a long piece of hickory
>Send a huge knot right through the blade
>Knot explodes; ricochets off my watch (shattering the screen) and pops me in the face on the nose and above my eye, making me bleed
Was away from the shop for awhile before that. I'm a bit more cautious getting back to things now.

>>2930839
Your lock, but not your bike, eh, Jamal?

>replacing mainboard on 3d printer after years of troubles
>remove a red and black paired cable from screw terminals on old mainboard
>put wires on the ground and place the new mainboard into the electronics bay
>place pair of wires into new board, red to positive, black to negative
>power on to make sure it works
>something smokes, detonates and showers me in sparks
>power it down and notice the pair of wires i THOUGH i had just connected sitting on the ground next to me
>i had just plugged a 24v board directly into 240v mains

in my defence what kind of retards use red and black cables for mains instead of blue and brown?

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>>2930419
Not particularly diy but when I was about 3-4 years old my aunt was renovating a shitty house and garage in industrial Racine with plenty of my other family members, being a barely sentient child I tried to pick up a 24 inch crowbar to help the adults.
I crushed my middle finger to a sand like state and the other was shattered.
My mom says the nurses struggled heavily with how badly I thrashed in pain, and honestly in the little bit of lizard brain memory I can kind of remember the sepia hospital windows, the ceiling tiles and thrashing about something fierce while people try to hold me down. If you'd been in a 1990's us hospital you would understand the scenery.

I really wish my parents had requested my X-ray in triplicate when I ate a drywall screw when I was a toddler, my acid reflux is legendary

Hook up oscilloscope probe. Attach a ground clip. Get another probe and stick it somewhere else, also ground it. Kaboom.
Constantly happens to me.

>>2931273
Same experience but I was probably even younger than you were and I was using a brittle knife to pry something open. It broke in half and sent 10 or 20 metal flakes flying into my face.

Stabbed myself at last week's bonsai club meeting, lads. Bled all over the place. Not sure I'm going to live this one down anytime soon.

>>2930930
Lmao what

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>>2930419
>cutting metal plate with angle grinder
>it's just one quick cut so I don't put any PPE on
>in shorts and sandals and no eye protection
>holding metal down on something with one hand and holding grinder with the other
>grinder kicks back and I lose my grip
>drops onto my foot while still spinning
>mfw
>narrowly misses larger veins and tendons on top of foot
>bounces off the side of my foot at the base of my big toe
>keep it closed with a butterfly and limp for several weeks
>must've been pretty deep because it took a month to heal

I still think about how lucky I got that it didn't sever a tendon or something, and also that it was a paddle type that turns off as soon as you let it go.

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>>2930709
Yes

>working on old bike
>Allen bolt for side cover strips
>Go to angle grind a slot
>Bit of brake clean on the ground I thought was too little to ignite ignites
>Scares the shit out of me and I drop the grinder
>Lands on my foot still spinning and drives across
>Osha disapproved safety sandals for the loss
>Cuts about half of my foot about inline with the ball
>Doesn't go tendon/bone deep but deep enough
>Only stitches I've ever needed in my life
>Walking sucked for a while

>Helping friend do turbo swap on his diesel
>Going to put exhaust back on
>Pipe won't fuckin reach the outlet for some reason despite being the exact same part number turbo
>No clamps or adjustability in the exhaust anywhere that would help
>Resort to wrenching it over with a 4 foot pry bar
>I'm prying while he's trying to get the v band on
>He's having a hell of a time and my arms are getting tired
>Brilliant idea to hold it with my knee to rest my arms
>Actually works well
>For 20 seconds
>Bar slips and the head hits me square in the front fucking tooth
>Must've reflexively beared my teeth when it happened otherwise it would have flayed my lip instead
>Go to dentist
>Oh wow that's so bad
>I don't even know if I can fix that
>Honestly you might lose the tooth
>*Cartoon gulp*
>Spends like 30 minutes cutting a channel over the crack for the glue and then glues it
>Works perfectly and I've had no issues for the past 7 or 8 years

>99% sure this is a real memory but could also be a hallucination/fabrication
>Be young child in kindergarten
>Teacher has an automatic stapler
>See her use it a few times
>Become intrigued
>Go to press the trigger with either my finger or thumb
>Memory goes blank so I must have blacked out
>Resumes with me having a bandage over the fingernail
>No permanent damage and I don't think I ever went to the doctor for it so it must not have pierced the nail
>Or I was extremely lucky and it just so happened to be empty

>>2933751
Nice!

>>2930930
>One time I was cutting the sleeves off a polo I was wearing while I was driving
What the fuck lol why

>>2933820
It was really hot and my car didn't have AC, and I was on a road trip so I cut the sleeves off to cool down. Not that crazy

>>2934072
How about roll up your sleeves or take the shirt off you barbarian

>>2930936
They didn't buy it dude, they just let you off cause you're working same as them and you aren't a social leech

>>2930667
My mom still wants to pick up metal I just cut with an angle grinder. "that's hot!" she says.

>>2930435
>arm stuck for 2 hours
lel. My dad got one leg stuck in the crawl-space access hole in our kitchen once when he was home alone, had to wait nearly an hour before my sister got home from classes so she could help pull him out of it. It's the reason he doesn't mind if she doesn't move out now, she'll save him from mishaps like this.
Learned a lot of things not to do from my dad though
>doing electricity work
>ask dad if i should turn the breaker off
>nah, we'll be fine
>seconds later sparks and a yell when he gets shocked
also
>doing plumbing work
>ask dad if we should turn off the water
>nah, we'll be fine
>soon geyser of water from faucet onto the ceiling, walls, and floors
I don't work with my dad anymore

>>2931470
I forgot the shirt. what makes you think I would slather sun screen on instead?

>>2931260
>be me in high school electronics class
>doing whatever
>someone shouts my name
>turn to look and something is flying towards me
>catch it
>wake up on the ground
>fucker threw a charged start capacitor at me

now if someone calls my name and lobs something at me, I just step aside and let it crash and break. even if it isn't a capacitor I'm not falling for that again. fuck you for throwing shit.

>>2931471
>make excellent high amp power sources
ooooooh 15 amps? woooo! powerful.

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>Testing shear strength of a stainless screw
>Ali frame on compact laminate
>Screw doesn't break
>Laminate does, pic related
>The amount of force that takes moves until it hits an immovable object
>That object was my face
>Four stitches in my top lip and now I'm going to scar and look like I have a cleft palate
That was three days ago, not the best way to spend a Thursday

>>2930722
> >get second degree burn on my left upper arm
>smells
You mean that warning about uv is real?
I was kind of thinking it’s about like a lightbulb and the waning is like the 3 pages of shit you have to go through in your handheld drill manual

>>2935907
>You mean that warning about uv is real?
yeah no shit dude. I just forgot.

>>2930419
>>2930419
>> With the heat of the welding the piston inner mechanism breaks and releases instantly.
BRUTAL, op...

>>2930419
>2023... was putting small wheels in some old chink cabinet my mother had in the kitchen.
>used glue for wood + big ass screws, to ensure things are sturdy.
>forced it too much, busted left hand in the process.
>2025... my hand still feel some ache eventually. Getting old is shit.

>get deeply depressed in my 40s
>don't work out for 4 years
>decide to put in some wire channels above a door for a clean look
>step off top step of stool to ground
>ankle folds slightly inward
>"I'm not supporting that, fatass"
>sickening *CRUUUUUUNCH*
>ankle fucking obliterated
>scream fuck louder than god
>live totally alone
>dying but still too financially aware to call american ambulance
>literally crawl to car screaming
>grab a mop by its dirty tendrils to use as crutch
>drive badly to hospital with left foot
>hobbling in to ER at one inch per minute on left foot with structurally failing mopcrutch, losing breath because organs have slowly decayed
>Get 10 feet from door before useless roastie nurse who has been watching this goes "want me t' get uh wheelchair?
>Get wheelchaired to check-in
>Stand up dying, working out financials, roastie nurse takes away wheelchair for some reason
>Done, standing there wobbling with ghostface, some hick says "hey let me get you a wheelchair"
>He wheels one over, not paying attention to wheelchair spatial, nails me in the back of the legs and knocks me over, almost break other ankle
>"oh shit damn I'm dumb!" Yup you fucking are
>wait 2 hrs, get room, totally forgotten for 4 more hours
>Nurse comes in "ok let's send you home"
>"Do you guys mind even fucking xraying me or sending in a doctor first?
>Oh lawd no one seen you yet? haha
Fuck me but also FUCK Ohio medical.
I'm in shape now, dont be me and don't live here

>>2930419
Not really /diy/ level but
>have minifridge with little freezer section
>ices over because it's a minifridge
>ice gets so bad the door doesn't close anymore
>guess I should take it off
>start poking at ice with a knife
>enough to get the door to close
>alldone.jpg
>notice fridge runs really rough next few days
>the freezer section has the refrigerant running through it
>i jabbed it with a knife and punctured it
>fucking idiot
>i actually recall reading in the manual specifically not to do that
>ruined minifridge and there's strong refrigerant/chemical smell in room
>run fans and open windows for a few days
>everything turns out ok
Really no clue what I was thinking with that, I could have jammed the ice with a chopstick or something and it probably would have come off and I'd still have a working minifridge.

>>2931471
>deleted for cost reasons
Not entirely.

>Be me, 29 y/o, early 2025
>work for an A/V production company
>Occasionally rent extra box trucks for bigger local jobs
>come in one afternoon, manager tells me where I'm going and which truck I'm taking
>Hop in, it's a Hogan with barely 10k on it, and it has a goddamn cigarette lighter
>First thing I do is see if it still works
>It does
Fuck Penske, all my niggas rent Hogan trucks. They know how to treat a man right.

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>>2930419
>decide to build one of those diy split keyboards
>had never soldered anything in my life
>cheap ass amazon soldering setup, using a little steel wool to clean the iron periodically
>the wires start spreading out and not really scrubbing well just by poking the iron
>clearly i should grab the sponge with my bare hand while im poking the iron through it so it can get scrubbed
>sudden smell of burnt skin, i don't remember it really hurting at all, no blood either
>just poked a little hole in my finger
it was pretty deep, but it did heal up fine. another less notable accident was placing the iron down on my wood desk and making black spots on it, as well as placing it right over the power cable and melting the plastic (multiple times lol)

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>>2936871
>i don't remember it really hurting at all
That's a shame. Stupid should hurt.

>>2936571
>strong refrigerant/chemical smell in room
Did you by any chance feel sick during the next few days?

cracked my femur trying to pry a massive rusted nail that used to hold the skirting board

I wrestled with it for some five minutes and with a final mightly tug it ripped away from the wall and the crowbar slammed into my leg

later I just cut all the remaining nails flush with the wall using a multitool

>>2936901
No, I felt fine, thankfully it was a pretty modern minifridge so it was probably a nontoxic refrigerant.

>wake up
>hungover as hell
>how tf I got home??!!
>worry
>hurry into garage fo check on car
>yep, drove home, car is okay
it's just that I must have started changing tires for whatever reason, dropped her on a brake disc and then called bedtime

>>2936955
One of Freons top selling points was that it was non-toxic to humans. The inventor, who also invented leaded gasoline, used to inhale a lungfull of the stuff right out of the cylinder to demonstrate it. Prior to that ammonia was one of the most popular refrigerants. So, no, a leaking AC or refrigerator won't make you sick. That's not to say some other 'chemical' could be leaking in your room.

Also, have you emptied your sex toys? They can get full.

>>2936966
What the fuck are you trying to say at the end?

>>2937012
He found his car missing a wheel and resting on the break disc, so his drunk ass was doing a tire change for whatever reason.

>>2937012
>>2937018
yes my drunk. ass chose to change all 4 tires and fucked up by the time I got round to the passenger front one
dropped her off the jack
and then probably realized it's better to just sleep it off and worry about it tomorrow

>>2937038
Alcoholics never cease to entertain.

Last night I had my face too close to a drill while trying to use a 2" hole saw in an awkward position and also forgot the drill was in low speed. It caught and snapped around, busting me in the nose and now I get to explain the cuts to coworkers only 2 weeks after drilling into my hand at work.
Anyone know of retard-proof alternatives to drills?

>>293704
>>2937044
Hammer

>>2937049
>retard-proof
>hammer
Why don't we just hand him a 9mm and call it a day?

>>2937044
Just quit being retarded bro...

>>2930667
kek two of my friends did this to themselves recently in my car

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>>2931552

>>2931260
Good thing it wasn't the anode from the flyback transformer to the tube.

>>2930930
We've all been there bro.

>>2937431
Impressive how they fixed that chair

>>2937665
They should show if they fixed that person's butthole too.

>>2937044
Protective gear makes stuff more retarded proof

>>2937431
Great work here. Love to see it.

>>2934148
your mom partakes in your diy? not mine :(

>>2930419
> had me a set of wonderful trophy locking pliers.
> took them out to admire.
> guy fixing the bathroom tiles needed one to undo the valves.
> gives it back to me covered in cement, sand, water, and whatever dripped out of me pissing in the morning.

>>2931260
>>sits there broken for a year
>still zapped
No capacitor holds a big charge like this for a damn year. Not even the tube itself.
Someone must have tried turning it on a couple days or weeks at most before you got zapped.

>>2931260
hah old tvs man

>be like 10, have a tv, old cause poor
>2x 8 channels, pull out rack to set the channels by rolling a gear
>buttons half working, you get the idea
>playing nintendo, get frustrated
>gonna do something else, try to turn it off
>plastic power button breaks off, bends inside, finger ends up inside the tv
>blue flash, tv turns off
>intense pain in my arm, see stars for a moment
>fingers twitching, arm numb, sweaty, need to sit down
>home alone, figure i need to take it easy for a moment
>fingers stop twitching after about 10 minutes, arm numb for a good half hour, after that feels like i fell down the stairs or something
>wiggle the power button back in place with a screwdriver
>turn on tv, still works, play some more nintendo

had a red line on my finger, and some blood under my nail a few days after, was a lot more careful around electronics from that point
short one from work
>use autoclave/pressure cooker for sterilisation
>noone signed in, weight not wiggling, pressure ok, assume its not been used for a while
>open it up, hot steam blasts the top my fingers, was a little pressure left in it after all
>second degree burns on 3 fingers, took a month and a half to heal, lucky my nails didnt fall off
pressure cookers man

>>2932157
i did that also, its still a cringe moment that flashes through my mind every now n then, pried it out myself

>>2935891
this was a common prank in my highschool, we didnt have high capacity ones around though

>>2935902
made this same mistake a bunch of times

>>2938458
Yes! She's all over the place, and easily distracted.
"Let's paint! Let's wallpaper! Let's sand a door!" But doesn't really prepare." Oh I need this" , or" I need that". Going up and down the stairs because she forgot something. Shes healthy and almost 70, so I'm happy shes still able and willing to help.

>>2938536
sounds like the perfect mom for diy. god bless her.

> 12 year old me
> hand sawing a pot in half to put plants
> half way through, decide to use the saw as a machete
> hits my thumbnail and puts two holes in it

>be me
>build furnace + forge for blacksmith
>do blacksmithing
>put one part outside fire to cool down
>brother comes out
>grabbyhandsmcgee
>Tell him "Don't touch it, still hot"
>it literally just came off from red hot and looked like normal metal
>he tells me it can't be that hot
>grabs it
>"Ouch that's still hot!"
The look on me face was one of befuddlement, but I can't help but chuckle a bit when thinking about it.

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>>2930419
Not me, but when some operations guys try to tighten hydraulic lines

>1/2” from seating on the O-rings
Well at least they tried to help. And they’re self sealing lines so it didn’t blow 30gal of hydraulic fluid everywhere which is a good thing, only a gallon or two.

>>2939631
This wasn’t really /diy/, but this whole clusterfuck…

>big diesel hydraulic pump on a trailer
>old lines have some wear and tear, but have been holding up
>supposed to open some bypass valve or whatever so you have no load as you’re starting machine and shuttiny it ofr
>coworker didn’t get the memo, line assplodes as soon as he cranks it
>still can’t get hydraulic oil out of my shirt
>I like coworker so I blame it on shitty lines (the line would’ve blown within a couple months anyway so not really his fault)
>refill machine with 10gal of hydraulic oil
>start it up again, come in the next morning to find hydraulic pump totally empty, lost like 40gal+ of hydraulic oil
>should’ve murphy switch’d itself off once it lost a few gallons
>somebody put a piece of duct tape over the button to override the low fluid shutoff.
I don’t think those 5gal buckets of hydraulic oil are cheap.

Don’t duct tape override switches unless you know what you’re doing.

>>2939635
The hydraulic oil bandit strikes again

>>2937038
Yeah forget to tighten the lug nuts when that happens

>in uni studying engineering to go into military aviation
>all I want to do is bomb sandnogs
>be cutting cable on a tree during summer job
>stupidly cut up with the knife
>knife goes into right eye and rattles around
>destroys most of the retina and iris
>3 months of surgery later, I get out of hospital
>blind in that eye, the iris is a mess, but kept the eye
>and of course, the piloting dream died
>now a desk jockey engineer that gets blinded in the sunlight because of surgery cataracts

Wear your safety goggles

>>2938491
>2 repair techs at my house fixing my fucked up A/C
>go down to the basement to see how they're coming along
>the tech in the furnace room yells for a C wrench, thinking I'm his partner
>hand him mine since I carry one anyways
>he turns to look at me after grabbing it and does a double take, I guess his partner was outside
The job took twice as long as I thought it would, but they were very nice people

>>2939635
>Don’t duct tape override switches ̶u̶n̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶w̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶’̶r̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶i̶n̶g̶

Unless you're trying to sabotage something, don't defeat safety features in ways you can forget. There's some saying about tying a string around your finger so you remember something? Maybe literally do that, Physically connect yourself to whatever you're doing to that poor safety switch so when you walk away to take a piss, it comes with you and isn't left in a fail deadly state.

>>2942770
must have been scary

>>2943161
A little, I was good form going to hospital, then on morphine for 3 months before being weened off, then it was what it was. Shit happens

>>2930419
> Bolts the length I needed for an assembly didn't exist.
>Use way longer ones, cut then shorter after installation
>Go and eat lunch
>Forget that I was supposed to grind or sand the cut ends when I get back
>Start assembly anyway
>Used a shorter socket than I should have, slips off the nut while trying to tighten it
> End up punching one of the cut bolts with my pinky finger
>Whoops, go inside and put a bandaid on it without even inspecting the wound
>Keep working
>30 minutes later realize I've bled completey through the bandaid, go inside to change it
>Go inside and pull the bandaid off
>"Oh wow, so that's what a tendon looks like"
>faint onto the floor
>wake up 10 minutes later and do a better job bandaging my finger this time, stop working on everything for the next week to make sure the wound doesn't reopen

>>2935907
yes, I spent a work shift holding the smoke vaccum for a welder, I was in a t-shirt the entire time. both my arms had "sun burns" and the skin peeled of 2-3 days after.

>>2930419
>cutting trees prior to hurricane coming in
>mostly small pine
>sub 4" trees
>brother-in-law helping
>he doesn't stump off the trees
>leaves them 12+ inch tall
>I ask him several times to stump them to the dirt
>I cut a tree
>take a few steps back
>trip on tree he didn't stump
>land on a another tree he didn't stump
>broke my back on impact
>dropped the chainsaw in my lap
>mm from death
>rushed to ER with team of doctors waiting for retard with chainsaw injury to groin
>it was just my upper hip, dick and balls okay
>doctors dispersed
>several hundred stitches
>broke back was not discovered at the time
>went years before the pain got beyond what I could self-medicate through
>had back surgery
Brother-in-law also fish hooked me with a bungy cord. Broke a tooth and knocked several loose. Plenty of stitches on that one too.
He has nearly killed me several times. We don't hang out anymore.

>>2936550
Ohio has produced the most astronauts. There is something about that state that makes people want to leave this planet.

>trying to get into pyrography
>Sawing a round off of a log
>Taking too long, so I figure, hey, I'm great at chopping
>Chop
>CHOP
>Cut it in half
>All my dreams die
>Saw off a round from the other end properly
>Put it in a plastic bag
>Mouldy
>Dreams die again

That's all I have really. Just wanted to bump. You guys are great, these stories make me laugh and make me cringe out loud all at once. I admire you all sincerely

>spend the whole day clearing a piece of land using my chainsaw with only safety glasses end hearing protection.
>Basically waiting for something to go wrong.
>Nothing bad happens
>Go home to eat something
>Take saugases (frikandellen) out of the freezer
>They are stuck together
>Use knife to pry them apart
>Frikandellen came apart, knife ends up in my hand
>Bleeding like a motherfucker so put first aid stuff on it (I'm drunk right now and can't remember the English word, verband in Dutch)
>Fast forward three days
>Hand is so swollen I can't even hold a cigarette with it
>Go to Docter, they reopen the wound
> Pulls out a piece of flesh
>Piece of frikandel got stuck in my hand

>Mfw I was chopping and sawing the whole day and the most dangerous parts was deepfrying some frikandellen
>Mfw I have no face because I'm phone posting and can't be arsed to Google some meme

>>2946404
Translation
>I got a chunk of frozen sausage lodged in my hand, and I bandaged over it.

>>2930419
Ive got one

>Frugal me, tv keeps taking an age to turn on
>google it, fucked capacitor
>decide £1 cap is better than £400tv
>find it, change it,test it
>works fine
>thought id leave the back off in case it stops working
>faster to fix again that way
>ADHD, just leave it indefinitely
>months later, rushing to move room around to watch football
>Pick up TV while its on
>Grab right across the power input, open contacts
>Stand there for like 10-15 seconds
>cant move at all, body completely unresponsive
>Then I made a caveman anger grunt as I managed to throw it out of my hands
>Mrs says go to hospital
>Fuck that, finish room change
>Liverpool won!

>>2930944
For years I had a tiny dot on my eye from where a kid stabbed me in the eye with a pencil, will have to try and find it again, see if its still there.

>>2930419
>insulating wooden shop
>bought styrofoam insulation because it's cheaper than fiberglass
>just have to cut it to size and put it in the joists
>actually this is a son of a bitch to do
>have to pound the boards into place with a 2 lb hammer
>it takes a week to cut and pound everything into place
>stand on a shitty tiny stool to reach the top of the board
>stool kicks out from under me when swinging the hammer
>direct hit to thumb
>thumbnail falls off (it grew back)
Should have bought the fiberglass. Don't ever insulate joists with styrofoam, the money you save will not be worth it.

>>2946738
Nigger that built my pole barn just nailed the sheets over the cross 2x4
Mouse fucking heaven
Absolute pain to unfuck

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>>2947859
My poor godmother rebuilt the hunting shack with aluminum sheet metal to prevent mice ingress. Unfortunately, exactly three dime-sized holes were left, including picrelated. Guess what, mice came back. But we'll rebuild better, with door cores instead of styrofoam insulation. Fun fact: mice don't eat glazed paper such as magazines. They barely nibble it. They also don't mess with metal.

>200 feet up a tower
>replacing power connector
>cable in left hand razor in right
>stripping cable jacket lengthwise towards me
>razor slips
>left palm is now slit from index to ring
>send down for some alcohol wipes (for cleaning fibers)
>stick them to my hand with electrical tape
>shove the whole mess into a work glove
>micheal jackson the rest of the job
>had to climb down on that hand
>get home, wash it, douse with iodine, gauze and bandage
>just douse with iodine every day until healed
>also get fresh gloves and micheal jackson until healed
>still had to climb
Healed pretty clean, might've used krazy glue too. Lesson learned, really.

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>>2948242
You tried a hook blade?

I also got a self retracting knife after almost stabbing myself picking it up from my tool box.


The hook is nice, it'll keep itself stuck to the jacket and you can rotate itn90 degrees after ringing the cable to slit it and feel it ride down the cable

>>2947859
>>2948241
Fill with hot pepper powder and spray foam.

>>2937044
phone number to a professional

>>2939527
I think we might have the same brother.

>>2935200
My dad is similar...
>wants to replace outlet
>can't figure out which breaker goes to the kitchen outlet
>he says fuck it and turns off the 200 amp main breaker
>doesn't tell anyone
>my brother comes home
>wtf no power?
>doesn't ask anyone anything
>switches on the main power

>>2948251
Oh yeah these are also surprisinglyucj sharper than you think so do not fuckin slip or else it's bad. That was why I got the auto retract for tge hook blade. Rushing the blade isn't like oh well that's nothing. Brushing the blade is a fucking oucbie

>>2948449
>Oh yeah these are also surprisinglyucj sharper than you think so do not fuckin slip or else it's bad. That was why I got the auto retract for tge hook blade. Rushing the blade isn't like oh well that's nothing. Brushing the blade is a fucking oucbie
What did he mean by this?

>>2948434
200 amps ? Do you have a nuclear power plant in your basement mate ?
>t. 3 x 25A chad

>>2948251
>>2948492
I haven't, but straight blades seem better for making leads on copper and terminating coax.
My boss told me he knew someone who used a hook blade, had an accident like mine, but ended up unzipping his hand.

>>2948492
Meant to quote
>>2948449

>>2948711
I'd keep a separate hook blade just for taking the jacket off big cables, like 96+ fiber or 25+ pair copper.

And yeah that sounds like it could happen. It's a lot faster but you have to cut safe 100% of the time

>>2948493
That's the standard size for a household main breaker in my state.