What Did You Learn Today?, 914 Lessons Options

[Todd Enlund]

Today, I learned that a 4 1/2" knotted wire wheel in an angle grinder is not nearly as effective on human flesh as I would have imagined. Takes the skin right off, but only tenderizes the meat. Gives it a nice purple color.

[wbergtho]

am somewhat less amused by my stupidity than I was before... as the flesh is healing, it is starting to feel like I may have damaged the tendons.

Let's hope your tendons are still fine. I learned that you do not grind a flat piece of extruded aluminum (in an attempt to make a trick pair of door thresholds) the wrong way on a massive disc grinder. The metal I was working got between the face of the grinding wheel and the table bed...in an instant it threw the metal out of my left hand at the speed of light. I was doing this on my lunch break @ Northwest Airlines and should not have been in the machine shop legally. The cut I recieved on my left thumb was 1/2" deep and 2 1/2" long. It of course severed my flexor tendon and I had to have it surgically re-attached by a hand surgeon. I was relegated to a plastic splint for 12 weeks and therapy every day for that time period. What a fricking disaster to have your left arm rendered totally useless for 3 months!

I really hope you didn't do this to yourself...having been through it myself.