Three things to be wary of when using a hot-glue gun

[RogerS]

1) When using a hot-glue gun to glue down the front baffle of a newly acquired set of speakers, when you manoeuvre the gun inside through the loudspeaker cut-out, it is NOT a good idea to drag your knuckles over the newly squirted and red hot glue. It makes your eyes water.

2) Upon whipping out your hand with its newly acquired hot-glue coating (still f'ing hot, by the way), it is DEFINITELY NOT a good idea to try and pull it off from the back of your hand. This is because it is still f'ing hot and all you succeed in doing is spreading said hot glue over an ever-increasing area of the back of your hand and also onto the fingers of your hitherto unharmed left hand. This also makes your eyes water.

3) Items (1) and (2), however, pale into insignificance when, once the glue has cooled and hardened, you then attempt to remove it as you will find that it also comes away with quite a few layers of flesh. Now this is MOST DEFINITELY NOT a good idea. Eyes water for a very long time.

DAMHIKT

 

[nev]

maybe we should have a 'Top Tips' section for similar nuggets of wisdom.

 

[MickCheese]

Roger

Sorry but without pictures I am not sure I believe it happened.

Mick

 

[finneyb]

Pictures are not good enough - we need video with sound, the above could be your rehearsal. =D>

 

[Peter Sefton]

Could you pop down to the School workshop for a live demo, we also have animal glue if that helps?

 

[ChrisR]

Roger.

That is just taking exfoliating to the extreme. :roll:


Sorry.

Chris R.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Nice one Roger
It reminds me of the time when I chopped a load of chillies and then went for a shower. That really did make my eyes water - goodness gracious great balls of fire!
S

 

[xy mosian]

Nasty. Very Nasty.
I worked as a production engineer in a factory making loudspeakers. We used lots of hot melt glue, pumped along a 2" heated pipe from very hot resevoir. The first treatment for the operators who were unlucky enough to come into contact with the glue was to quickly immerse the affected part into a very large tub of cold water placed very near. I only had to do that once but it did kill the pain quickly.
xy

 

[Graham Orm]

Yeowch. Get well soon :lol: :lol: I've considered a hot glue gun but am having second thoughts now.

I use superglue/mitre bond with activator regularly. When you want it to stick rapidly what do you do? You press hard for 10 seconds or so.....which by pure coincidence is just how long it takes your finger to stick to the job. Trick is to keep swopping fingers a bit like that lizard in the desert that keeps lifting alternate feet off the hot sand. It's an easy mistake to think you've not got any on your fingers, until you take your hand away and see a dark patch where you left some finger on the wood.
Worst to date was sticking the palm of my hand to the floor whilst concentrating on sticking a mitre with the other hand. You don't know you've done it until you feel the sting!

 

[Glynne]

Fiery Jack and courting don't mix either.

 

[No skills]

Well I hope you get better soon, and don't do it again :!:

Our old floor layer got a young lad to glue his hands together with spray adhesive a few years ago (the lad didn't know what the stuff in the tin was), showed him it wasn't sticky by spraying his own hand and shaking the lads hand - then sprayed one of the lads hands and shook again with his clean hand..
"see it don't stick proper when its out of date" (floor layer)
"oh yeah" (lad)
"look, try it yourself" (floor layer), lad takes can and sprays his other hand..
"are you sure it don't stick" (lad)
"yeah, try it - push your hands together" (floor layer)

I let you guess the rest

 

[ColeyS1]

I have this scars from a school prank and feel your pain. He thought it was funny to put hot glue on a chisel handle then pass it to me. I didn't show the pain.... expect the smell of burning skin was a give away though

Sent from my GT-I9300

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Fiery Jack and courting don't mix either.

Excuse my ignorance, what's "Fiery Jack"?

 

[cambournepete]

Brilliantly written Roger, my wife and I were in hysterics!!

Hope you recover soon

 

[Glynne]

Fiery Jack was a predecessor of today's "Deep Heat Muscle Relief " products - only about x100 stronger and with little in the way of instructions.
It looked like and had the texture of used axle grease and the "active" element was something like a micture of caustic soda and hot chillies.

Any further details would need to be posted after the 9:00pm watershed.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Thanks, I realised the implications, but didn't know what the stuff was.

 

[graduate_owner]

Yet another way to get injured following a woodworking hobby. And that's just the injuries you know about - there's also the ones you don't know about (dust in lungs, cancer-causing solvents, wife getting in a silent bad mood because you've spent too much time in the shed, the list goes on).
Is formula one racing really a safer hobby?

K

 

[DonJohnson]

In a darkened bedroom, a jar of Vick vapour rub can easily be mistaken for Vaseline!

 

[ChrisR]

In a darkened bedroom, a jar of Vick vapour rub can easily be mistaken for Vaseline!

Many years ago, one of my work mates and his wife did bed and breakfast, as a side income.
They had a young couple staying. There was a commotion in the middle of the night, the young woman had reached out in the dark, and picked up what she thought was a tube of intimate lubrication, but she had picked up a tube of deep heat rub and applied it. :shock:

My mate had to get his car out and take her to the local A&E.

You could say, it should have been a night of red hot passion, but I don’t think the young woman would agree. :mrgreen:


Take care.

Chris R.

 

[monkeybiter]

Minty toothpaste is a no-no as well... :shock:

It was a long time ago, we were young