Tweet
Ya its all funny untill somebody gets hurt!.....................And then its halarious
]Flying the right side up in Canada
]Flying the right side up in Canada-
-
Well, all I can add is.....that you never know who your mates really are until you hurt yourself. They´re the ones who laugh the loudest when they have a guess at how many stitches you´ll need when inspecting the damage, as long as you are able to laugh as well.Hoges
Comment
-
My list is enviable. The best was when i was taking the pot off an underbody putty gun and didn't disconnect the air hose. I accidently bumped the trigger and instantly had 1/4 inch of bitumen all over my face. My eye lash's stuck together and I was totally blind. I couldn't remember where I was in the shed so was trying to feel my way around when my dad came to the rescue. The only thing that would take it off was petrol and I had a bright red peeling face for ages. Good to laugh about now.Or the time I woke up with an itch on the old fella. Stumbled into the bathroom in the dark and poured on the 1st bottle of liquid I could find. Turned out to be pure peroxide. Stopped the itch, but burnt like all hell. All the skin fell off and was just like a facelift. Still got wrinkles most of the time though. Ken
Comment
-
Hmm,,Looks like a common thread amongst gyro pilots, bit disconcerting..Cheers,Nick.
Comment
-
I'll refer you to the incidents forum for some further ideas...But - do not use a bicycle or scooter wheel for a gyro, they are not load rated for the application and could fail resulting in damage, injury or death or all these things.Regards,Nick.
Comment
-
Gentlemen,To bring it to your attention, and I will include this in the 'what not to do' page.I have with all my stainless steel cables double swaged them for redundancy and strength.I have discovered this last Sunday that it is not a good idea to have both the swages butting up to each other when you swage the cable, if you do so it preloads the cable between the two swages due to the fact that they squeeze up against each other. Not only that, but any flexing that happens close to the thimble will take place between the two swages, with them working against each other I had a cable break in my mast stay while climbing up to inspect the rotor assembly, I used the cable to pull myself up and it snapped off, fortunately as there were two such cables I avoided a fall, so redundancy is a great thing. The bungee strap running up beside it helped restrain it so it didn't flick either, top idea.I will amend my swaging practice to space the swages at least 25 mm apart or at least 5 diameters apart.Hope this helps,Nick.
Comment
-
3/8" between swagges best practice. Geez Nick thought you would have been onto that.Hope this helps.Mitch.www.thebutterflyllc.com
Comment
-
I am now Mr Mitchell.Regards,Nick.
Comment
-
That's the way Nick and Mitch will do.Mitch.www.thebutterflyllc.comA thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Comment
-
Good to hear your still cumn to Biggenden Woz, coz ya still got enough fingers for flyn.Ignorance is bliss............but only till you realise you were.You can always get the answer you want, if you ask enough experts.
Comment
-
Woz,What happened?TedStrongly opposed to the retriction of free speech
Comment
-
Woz,You truly are a master of non surgical cutlery... pardon me while I cringe while I imagine how much it hurt and then turn green around the gills. You poor bugger, I can't begin to think how much.Trusting you are on the mend..Regards,The bloke who owes you a steak, a beer.. just don't let me shake your hand.Nick.
Comment
-
Onya' Wos - true ozzie spirit.Tim McClure
Comment
-
Ouchie Woz ! next time use a pare of tin snips or a Hunting knife turned up side down and pryse the blade through slowly... that works ! dull the tip first though so it don't go through the inside wall....though you cut your hand I bet you realy messed up the conduit too uh ? maybe you can get the surgan to sew it up too ??? ... I still carry the scar from splitting PVC Pipe when I was younger.... knife was real sharp.... I bled like a stuck pig ! put black tape over it and went back to work !later that night I put 2 butterflys on it .... boy was mom mad when I finally showed her (about 3 days later)! hehehehehe I know darn well she would'a hauled me in to get all swed up .... Didn't want that ! HAHAHAH Fly carefull Waz and keep those stitches CLEAN ! no froggin fer you till the stitches come out !heheheheC ya Bob......" Momm'a alwayse told me , Son the impossable is only a little bit Harder... and ya know I do believe She was RIGHT ! "
Comment
-
Quote:"Birdy,Some would say that you could chop off both my arms and therewould be no noticeable diferance in my flying style"We've got the photo's to prove it...Nicholas TomlinAlarmist - www.alarmist.com.au - we scare for you
Comment
Comment