Ed Kennell 38,095 #1 Posted August 3, 2017 The recent rash of accidents involving these devices becoming stuck on fingers and requiring the ERs to call in their maintenance men with a grinder and cut off wheel reminded me of an accident I had many decades ago when I was young and dumb and.... Well, some say I am still dumb, but more experienced. Seems I had a habit of sticking small ball and roller bearings on my fingers while I cleaned them. I would spray them with carb cleaner, then blow them dry with compressed air as the outer race, balls, and cage were spinning. I am guessing by the whine, it was rotating about 100,000 RPM when it locked up and continued to turn taking the inner race that was jammed in my finger with it. I do still have that finger, but it was upside down for a few days. 8 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunahead72 2,411 #2 Posted August 3, 2017 Good Lord Ed, that hurts just reading about it! Thank goodness we generally get smarter as we get older. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Kennell 38,095 #5 Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, AMC RULES said: I know the rule Rules....." If we don't have pictures, It didn't happen". Sorry Craig, there will be no reenactment photos of this one. Edited August 3, 2017 by Ed Kennell 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 67,380 #7 Posted August 24, 2017 On 8/2/2017 at 10:36 PM, tunahead72 said: Thank goodness we generally get smarter as we get older. I haven't. .... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
