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I've never been bothered by blood but maybe I've just never had a bad enough cut. Other people's sick though!
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Memmeddu
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It's not something you can decide , it's something that your body decides ...I've never been bothered by blood but maybe I've just never had a bad enough cut. Other people's sick though!
I got several bad moment using power tools , always being cold like ice , several grinders flights , circular saws kickbacks, drill twisting wrists , caught on fire to many times for my relatively short work life .
Keep calm in those situations makes the difference between something to tell to the pub friends or a bad experience.
But blood is too much for me ,I can't even see someone doing exams
eLuSiVeMiTe
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Scalped myself on a boilers sheet metal cover a few years back.I've never been bothered by blood but maybe I've just never had a bad enough cut. Other people's sick though!
An hour later at jewsons chap said. Do it know your heads bleeding
Nicely done. Looks stock
No logic behind it being an octopus, I saw one on Etsy and thought mum could crochet a better one. 
henry Kadzielski
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Blood doesn't bother me, less so if it's mine. When the wife was giving birth (she went for a c section) I called it the 'slice and dice' the nurses didn't want me to stand at the buisness end of things. They said I would faint, I asked from what? They told me from the sight of blood. I replied I have killed and gutted so many tuna (from my fishing days) that a little bit of blood wouldn't affect me. They didn't believe me, this was going to be my one and only viewing of this happening and I was not going to miss this for anything.
This 'slice and dice' was a eye opener, the doctor has obviously done this many times before. Just a little slice here, pull apart there, reach in and pull a treasure (maggot as I call them) out. The doc had to go in twice as there were two of them. The second was harder to catch as there was so much room there now
. He looked at me and said 'I got them both you still look like we are missing something'. I replied I'm waiting for the instructions and the warranty paperwork. He had over time with the visits with the wife started to warm to me, his reply ' I've been doing this for some time now and delivered a few, but haven't found any 'warranty or instructions paperwork yet, your on your own with that'. Middle of next month they will be 8
I just look at it to see if it is deep if it isn’t I’ll slap a cigarette paper on it it dries quick and acts like a second skin!
its genuinely something that's never affected me in the slightest: probably from familiarity.
I'm the same, no fear of blood mine or otherwise. if I fainted every time i cut / or injured myself, I'd have spent half my youth out cold.... wee bit of bog roll & a bit of sparky tape fixes everything, as soon as it stops bleeding, tape off let it dry out / breathe, sorted, works every time.
same with needles, working abroad, you become a pin coushion for vaccinations blood tests etc, so by repetition you became immune to them..
northwest
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As some of you know I was pretty badly injured earlier this year, just one more time in quite a catalogue over the years. I have lost about 15% of the functionality of my right hand. I consider myself lucky, for lots of reasons and it is pretty amazing I still have all my limbs, let alone all my digits.
I quite simply don't have time to become nauseous over a cut, i'm with MCKDAVID on this one, you quite simply cannot survive a serious injury, or indeed any injury if you are falling about all over the place and toppling into the ocean or the nearest bit of machinery. If you are feeling bad, close your eyes, let it wash over you whilst hanging on to something and when the fog clears, carry on. I am also with him about this cover it up until the bleeding stops then let it breathe bit. I am firmly of the opinion that if you seal everything up and leave it to fester, it will.
As with Henry above, once the surgeon or doctor warms to you and you establish a relationship you can make things work. They (surgeon and physio) can't believe how fast and how well I have healed. At the end of the day, I know my body better than they do, I have taken a great interest in it over the years and a mixture of practicality and common sense goes a long way. Also, don't believe everything you are told and don't believe everything you read (on the Internet) either. I sacked my first consultant (you can do this) as he suggested "I can accept this level of deformity" fine if it was his hand but it's mine. His replacement is a very talented individual for whom I have a great deal of time.
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Today I finished my worktable for the milling machine. Well, almost finished, I had to cobble some bits together, as both the packet of brackets, and the box of screws I planned to use, mysteriously disappeared until I finished for the day, then they turned up. 
Used the hydraulic bike stand to move the mill, and it worked perfectly. I recommend it for folks with sheds of the ‘smaller’ size. I ‘walked’ the mill off the small machine stand and onto the bike stand, jacked it up to the bench height, and easily ‘walked’ it onto its new home.
Should have bought one years ago.
Used the hydraulic bike stand to move the mill, and it worked perfectly. I recommend it for folks with sheds of the ‘smaller’ size. I ‘walked’ the mill off the small machine stand and onto the bike stand, jacked it up to the bench height, and easily ‘walked’ it onto its new home.
Should have bought one years ago.
Spark plug
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Today I’ve been making some height adjustment nuts for the quick change tool holders in in the process of making:
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Lathe cross slide feed nut
Parm
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Oh dear.
Memmeddu
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Things that unfortunately are supposed to happen at some points in the life , today seems better than yesterday
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I bought a Seig fixed steady from @Shiny Steve back in October
I finished converting it to fit the Drummond this afternoon.
Using ideas from a couple of drawings from various Drummond sites on the web.
Three months is a long time I agree but in that time I aquired a milling slide for the lathe, thank you @Milkybars, then a load of tooling and actually get my head around how to use it all.
There are loads of videos on the web but most of them are using proper milling machines, somehow I have great difficulty rotating the operations through 90 degrees.
I finished converting it to fit the Drummond this afternoon.
Using ideas from a couple of drawings from various Drummond sites on the web.
Three months is a long time I agree but in that time I aquired a milling slide for the lathe, thank you @Milkybars, then a load of tooling and actually get my head around how to use it all.
There are loads of videos on the web but most of them are using proper milling machines, somehow I have great difficulty rotating the operations through 90 degrees.
Spark plug
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Today I completed the first two tool holders and I’ve cut some bit of bar for the next two, these are going to have cutouts for smaller tools as I have loads of 20mm tools but these need packing in the big slot:
Before anyone asks, I know I have OCD but there’s no way I’m standing marking square head bolts to clamp the tools.
Before anyone asks, I know I have OCD but there’s no way I’m standing marking square head bolts to clamp the tools.
Hopefuldave
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Those square head bolts are a lot harder on the knuckles, too DAMHIK...
Dave H. (the other one)
Dave H. (the other one)
