Helicoil - Nippers - Blood - Stitches - Pain Killers

YUPP hardened steel shatters rather then really cutting it . It don't matter sometimes how safe you try to be. There are days your names on the list in the ER. I've picked out more steel stuck in me in all kinds of places , always lucky enough to not need stitches well not some I just wrapped tight . But I sure wear glasses and other SAFTEY equipment and it still gets me. Busting out bearing races with chisels is great way to get stung . YUPP it hurts butt I gotta the scars to prove it.
Glad you OK it'll heal , use a dremel sparks are small and don't hurt.
 
Dremel sparks may not hurt but a chunk of that little wheel does both going in and coming out. It is surprising how much skin will stretch, how such a big object can go through such a small hole it made in your skin.
 
I guess the title sums it up! I needed a 3/4" long, 3/4"-16 helicoil insert for a job, all the suppliers had were 1-1/8" long, so drill and tap the hole, take the nippers, get the right length, then SNIP!! Then a piercing pain in my lower neck, blood everywhere, a quick trip to the urgent care, 4 stitches and a prescription for some pain killer (unfilled)

According to the doc, it was a puncture wound, until, I rip it out out my neck, causing the gash, that had to be closed. About 2 hours after I got home, i ventured into the shop, cleaned up the cart and installed the cut down helicoil insert, reassembled the pump housing, ready to be installed tomorrow morning.
next time maybe a diamond cut off wheel in the dremal.
 
Damn I'm Mad!! I opened one of the boxes of spare crap for the shop and a bag of the right size Helicoil inserts was setting there. So I didn't need to buy any and didn't need to cut one, I sure need to get the shop organized.
 
An E-bay super magnet helps to remove metal logged deep in your skin....
 
A Dremel with a 1" cutoff wheel is my weapon of choice. for trimming springs. I don't place sensitive parts of the anatomy in the plane of the rotating disk.

I had a piece of shrapnel from striking hardened metal hit an artery once. Aside from the pain, it is actually rather fascinating seeing the blood spurt. A compression bandage and back to work.

As I told my wife when she broke her toe some twenty years ago, pain is nature's way of telling you that you screwed up.
 
Thanks for the reminder of stuff we should already know. A little recurrent training is always good................Bob
 
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