I was modding a pc engine, and the av/out rca jack mounting was a tad but too wide. Out came the clippers, and somehow.. bam, plastic shard in the eye. Incredibly painful. As I won't forget soon, remember those saftety glasses... :dance:
HAH. I actually had something similar happen Monday of last week. I was grinding down a metal panel for a door to our rabbit's "apartment" when a sharp piece of shrapnel hit me in the eye and embedded itself in my iris. I didn't know at the time, and I couldn't see it either. Later that night my eye started hurting real bad but I thought it was just irritated until the next day when my girlfriend noticed the metal splinter in my eye. The following day I went to the eye doctor (wed.), and had to get it cut out of the lens and of course for waiting so long it got infected, which I am still having to put expensive drops on until today. Having someone stick a hooked shaped device into your eye is not fun in the least bit. And I would have blinked and then ice blocked but I had to quit WoW =)
You are lucky Kev, I had an RJ45 hit me in the eye when I was rolling up some network leads in work, it scratched the surface of my eye badly and I still can see the scars if I look at a white surface.
Well I saw a guy using a cutting torch without safety gear. I thought this guy has no brains! You never forget safety gear its your life your playing with and there is only 1.:fresh:
Yeah I was dremmeling once, and a piece of plastic flew into my eye. Picked it right out with my fingers lol. Got lucky though, so I too wont do anything like that without safety glasses
目をいただいきますｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ Wearing safety glasses and having the room's windows wide open is more than enough prottection for modding.
Now this is the assembler I know and Love. as bad as that is can't be as bad as that splinter I got. I STILL have a scab on my foot from that damned thing
The same thing happened to me. I was dremmeling some corners off an import N64 cartridge so I could play it on my system. Small shavings hurt. =(
Ouchies! Yeah, you have to be careful when working with any such tools - although sometimes you can't take enough precautions. I remember soldering some consoles once. I'd used a table lamp to get extra light - what I didn't know was that it had a short somewhere - passed the mains voltage straight down the earth, through the soldering iron, and into me! And when you're holding a tool that's at 350 degrees Celcius and it electrocutes you, you have to make a snap decision as to whether you're going to go with your reflexes and drop it! I managed to keep hold of it, only to be hit a second time!
