Well I did something stupid last night. I finally had some spare time on my hands so I decided tput a structure kit together. I tired to paint it first but the tops of most my paints were stuck on. I managed to open my Caboose Red with a pair of pliers. But my Rail Brown had leaked a little and was hopelessly stuck. Being a little tired and impatient, I grabbed my vice grips from my tool box and clamped the top of the jar in them. I cranked and cranked on it until the top of the jar broke, cutting up my had in the process. Thank God I didn’t need stitches because my wife would never have let me live it down!
Thankfully not to that extreme. FWIW, in the case of a stuck paint jar lid, I’ve used the following trick:
Turn the jar over so that the lid is on the bottom side
Bang the lid firmly a few times on the cement floor
Use a Playtex dish washing glove (with the ridges on the fingers), drape it over the lid to get the added grip you need to open the jar
This usually works the first time. If not, I give it a few more bangs on the cement floor then try again. I can’t recollect a jar that I haven’t been able to open so far.
If the above method doesn’t open the troublesome jar after 2 or 3 attempts then I’d just chuck it and buy a new jar of paint.
I tried mightily to take my finger off with a hunting knife a few months back. Stripping wire, knife slipped, finger in wrong spot, ouch, bleed bleed bleed, where the heck’s my neosporin, why oh why was I stripping bus wires with a ten-inch hunting knife?
There’s a bonehead move or two lurking in all of us, it seems…
Well…I manage to dump a bottle of Poly S SP Scarlett Red in my lap while opening it…It was years before my wife let me live that down…[sigh]
I could go on but,after 55 years in the hobby suffice to say I boo booed a lot of times.
For what its worth I’ve been told wax paper between the lid and bottle will stop the lid from sticking.I never tried that since I wipe the jar and inside of the lid with a shop towel…
The important thing, Chip, is that you were able to get that sub-woofer to fit. I don’t think the members of that MRRing club ever recovered from the horn blast you laid on them that one evening…
Unfortunately, I never learn, especially when it comes to slicing myself with an exacto knife, or burning myself with the soldering iron or hot glue gun. Hopefully, you shelved the project for the night. I’ve wrecked some decent projects in a fit of rage from injuries. That’s one thing I’ve learned to control, anyway. Just think of it as the school of hard knocks!
The club was in the basement of a church…you should have seen all the dust that came out of the floor. People were choking and gagging. We had to wait almost an hour to go back in and get out stuff. For a year after that every time I opened my wallet, dust came out.
Yep I have done the same thing, but I was lucky that I wasn’t cut very badly. I did slice my finger deep enough to warrant stitches though a while back. I have the wicked scar to prove it (the crazy thing is I knew that I was going to cut my finger before it happened but didn’t listen to my little voice…learned to listen to said voice from then on).
And…may I add…NEVER hold a stone in one hand, and use a 4" grinder with a diamond cutt-off blade with the other hand, (no matter how many years you have previously pulled this procedure off in the past) to get that last piece of stone trimmed up for a fireplace front, your helping a friend with, on a Friday afternoon, in anticipation of an ice cold brew, and celebrating a job well done…radial arteries don’t just bleed, they squirt, and tendons take a while to heal…after emergency surgery…cast comes off May 22. [:$]
Wow, you guys have me beat as far as hobby injuries.
The worst I’ve done involved using a #11 blade to get the panels off of a walther’s autorack kit (Should have used a chisel-type blade) and my left thumb. Knife slipped, and it didn’t just cut my finger. It filleted (sp?) it. The knife went down the inside (toward the index finger) edge of my thumb and sliced about a 1/16 to 1/8 piece away from the thumb down to between the base of the thumb (Roughly an inch and a half).
I didn’t get stitches, I just pushed the filleted piece back into place and wrapped it in gauze. Healed up just fine.
I’ve done the catch the hot end of the soldering iron once when I first started using it (probably around 12). I ended up wrapping the cord around something on the bench so that when it falls off, it doesn’t hit the floor.
Hold the paint bottle in the hot water stream for 15-30 seconds. Be sure to hold the bottle with the pliers to keep your hand out of the hot water stream.