Oowwwweeeee/ warning blood and gore.

[Miriam C.]

nope---no belt. Sounded like a bearing but I was too frustrated to work on it. Better to leave it and do the hand stuff. Lots of that to go around.

[halfdome, Danny]

You might want to take the blade off and turn it on to see what's going on. Lay the blade on a flat surface to see if it's warped. A good saw sharpening company can fix the blade, if it's worth fixing. How many teeth and is it carbide? Do the teeth alternate with a straight one in the middle? Danny

[Miriam C.]

The blade is straight (yeah I checked) it is a thin kerf, 70 teeth and finish/rip cross cut. Really nice blade for plywood.

The arbor seems to be intact so I need to take it apart. I hate to do stuff like that when I know I don't have a lot of room. May bring it in here were parts won't get lost. Maybe something simple but I won't hold my breath.

[csdivine]

Say Chris how is your finger?

Doesn't hurt much now. Been changing the dressing every evening. Stitches will come out on June 1st. It's an UGLY wound and is positively going leave a nasty-looking scar to remind me of my carelessness. I will talk with my regular doc when she removes the sutures and see about going to the hand surgeon for options, depending on how it looks and how much feeling I have back. I'm both glad to still have my thumb and angry that I let this happen at all.

Needless to say, having a lame thumb, even on my "off" hand, has slowed my build considerably as I'm careful not to bang the thumb on anything.

[Miriam C.]

OOOOwwwweeeeeee. I feel for you. We'll just pray it is all right. I hate to think of surgery...

[KA]

Oweee Heal soon.
Kris

[Laredo]

halfdome, Danny?

I heed the warnings on power tools.

It's the unpowered stuff, or the hand-powered stuff, I usually get killed on.
(Well, that and the cat, but there wasn't any warning label on the cat... he didn't even growl.)

Miriam, how's your hand?
Chris, glad to hear you're better.
I'm all better.
Next purchase: Kevlar-reinforced welding gloves (still gotta comb the cat).

Anybody else here ever get a paper cut licking an envelope, or a stamp?

[Muggnz]

"Anybody else here ever get a paper cut licking an envelope, or a stamp?"

yes, many many years ago. "back in the good old days" when envelpoes ( whoops my tongue got a bit twisted ) had to be licked. Fortunately these days they're mostly unfold & stick the 2 glue pieces together. Except for Mother/Father's day etc cards. Which need the right technique to avoid injury.

I've also let my finger have an intimate discussion with a circular saw. As soon as I saw what was happening, I separated them. All that's left is a small scar on the finger tip.

[dakotamouse]

Anybody else here ever get a paper cut licking an envelope, or a stamp?"

Oh yeah! I've gotten a tongue cut with paper. Give you a terrible case of heebie jeebies! Like finger nails on a black board.

Scared the heck out of myself with a knife about 3 weeks ago. Bought a brand new chefs knife and did a very foolish thing. Put it in the dishwasher. It came out with little spots in the finish. Sorta like rust spots. I thought I could get them out with a Mr Clean erase sponge. They didn't come out. But the blade sliced right through the pad and got me! There's a moment when things go fast and slow at the same time....oh oh what have I done!!! It was deep and took a while to stop bleeding but it did heal fine.

[Laredo]

wow.

knives and dishwashers are a very bad combination ... my dishwasher being my two front paws...

but I knew where you're coming from. There was this piece of longhorn cheese, and I wanted a sandwich ...

[csdivine]

Well, the sutures come out this afternoon. We'll see how we do after that.

[Miriam C.]

Well, the sutures come out this afternoon. We'll see how we do after that.

Ok give! Hope everything is alright???

[csdivine]

Well, the sutures come out this afternoon. We'll see how we do after that.

Ok give! Hope everything is alright???

Sutures came out OK. Just a small bit of numbness on the tip of my thumb. No surgical invervention necessary. The hand surgeons just deal with range-of-motion, not nerve repair. THe feeling will either come back or it won't. Otherwise it's just gonna be a nasty-looking scar across my thumb forever, but oh well....lesson learned. Still not able to use the thumb because the wound is pretty tender, but as my wife keeps telling me, just be glad the thumb is still attached where it belongs!

[Laredo]

Going to leap in here and say you do not have to post pix of this.

Also, you may find that the numbness "wears off" over time (it took several months after the ganglion cyst surgery I had in 1995 before I could type properly again, not because the thumb wouldn't move but because I couldn't feel the keyboard under it).

[Miriam C.]

Going to leap in here and say you do not have to post pix of this..

That is really great news Chris. Numb is better that nothing for sure.