Roboteering Fails

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Team Nuclear
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Re: Roboteering Fails

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Drilling and tapping into plastic and then find it's the wrong peice of platic
burns from solder iron
crushing my finger in the vice(that hurt)
colapsing a shelf on myself
getting hit by the prop on my IC plane when it fired up
cutting myself with a stanly knife
having my hand underneath the spot where the axe hits on Evil Pig Sty
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I managed to get a knife blade about a centimeter into my palm. And when I dropped my soldering iron and attempted to catch it by the iron. Luckily I only got it with my thumb and two fingers. :roll:
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lets see um
have no feeling in my wedding finger due to an antweight, had a wrestling match with TX-108 when the hydraulics fully opened with my arm underneth, had Tanto knock me out 3 times testing her, she runs me over when she loses signal, am all but deaf in one ear due to beasts pneumatics going off next to me, numerous cuts and scars from protruding metal work, solder burns welding burns
and possibly the biggest injury of all, then dented ego
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Lot's of burns and cuts from things but the worst would have to be the wire wheel yesterday that means that my left index finger is covered in more cuts than skin.
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That sounds some pretty severe injuries Craig, I'm amazed Tanto has managed to knock you out once, let alone 3 times :P
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erm, lets see...
had Orrion's co2 tank explode in my hands at Aylesbury 2010 while my dad was doing some work, he actually got the worst of it but was still pretty nasty for both of us.
Had pure evil fire its axe randomly whilst i was putting in a new receiver, turns out the RX battery gives it power even with the link removed (all sorted now) the axe arm hit me on the head rather than the axe head (luckily or it could have been much worse) got a nasty bruise and the doctors thought i had a concussion...again, but it wasn't as bad as that
numerous soldering iron burns
dropped a gear motor in ice water we had in our garden and didn't notice, came back when it had began to thaw out and the gear motor was in there frozen solid like a fossil in amber :roll: took it out and it ran ok!
i once vacuum formed a hand mold...the wrong way
had a crusher featherweight that crushed through a PCU...and then the floor of the workshop, needed to pull up the board to get it out and then replace it with a new one after...lol
once drilled through my index finger
had a disk that flew off and embedded itself 3 inches in the door
once broke my other index finger whilst hammering
cut of half my fingernail with a dremel
had a spinner once that randomly span up and i tried to stop the silly dog we have from running right into it and it cut into my hand (the spinner not the dog, although that hurts too) still have the scar...
my friend cut half the way through his finger whilst using an angle grinder

the usual bumps and scrapes

You'd think i was incompetent :lol:
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You sound like a walking accident report book!
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having only been new to this i have had only 3 injuries :
soldering and the solder wire getting ot and sticking to my hand.
buffering machine managed to et my arm twisted around it (thankgod it was only turning off)
and worst of all a buffering machine crushing my foot down its as flat as a pankace.

i try to live down these painfull memories
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Re: Roboteering Fails

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Just had my first major fail, nearly chopped. The whole side of my thumb off whilst using a blade, it chuffing hurts, in future I'll use a drill to drill my holes no matter how small and insignificant
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Well another one to add to the collection. I have finished 90% of my team for the aws, although not started pneumatic anticide yet. I started by testing anticipation/cataclysm with the 150mm disc. Turned it on and reversed the channels to get the drive working fine. Disc spins up and the right direction. Turned off the tx to pick up the robot to turn it off and whooosh. Disc spins up to full speed vibrates itself off the notebook on the bed, hits the sheets making some impressive holes and flew just past my legs (in shorts...) and onto the floor. I turned the tx on straight away after it spun up and it re connected when it hit the floor.

I was using the rx in an old robot that had the fail safe set high for the servo weapon. I guess I am getting complacent, spinners are not toys... sure made me jump.
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