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It's also an occupational hazard in the aerospace industry, pinhole leaks in 2000-3000 psi hydraulic lines. I'm only aware of one accident, but it seems there are a few each year.

Barry Lennox

A warning label on some hydraulic equipment shows this risk (skin penetration by high-pressure hydraulic fluid) schematically and explicitly.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

When I was in the Air Force, I heard of a few cases of this. In one case, an individual was "injected" with about a quart of hydraulic fluid near the center of his chest. He survived the initial accident, but later died from poisoning.

Another interesting story involved a guy mounting an aircraft tire on a wheel. AIUI, he forgot to install something and the bead didn't hold when he aired it up. Then the tire popped off the wheel and he was hit by the escaping air. The lower half of his body was found on the other end of the hanger and the upper half was stuck up in the rafters.

Holy sh*t... I had no idea it could do that to a hand. 8-( Granted that was higher than normal industrial hydraulic pressure by a factor perhaps 4, but still...

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Wow, 2000 lbf/in^2? You're lucky you still have your hand...

By "obvious way" I thought you meant don't use that orange hand cleaner soap / goop stuff... then I thought, oh no he didn't....

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I wasn't there, but I heard that it was an aircraft wheel. Seem to recall something about a lock ring, but that could have been another story. ;-) I was stationed at Scott AFB in Belleville IL. Lots of C-9s and various other craft. I remember a pilot grinding the bottom off of a T-39 when he landed it with the gear up. Now I really wish I'd seen that happen since nobody was injured. I did see the aircraft hanging from some type of funky mobile crane when they were removing it from the runway. It was a mess on the bottom. Lots of FOD cleanup that day. ;-)

What's "The obvious way?" Lick it?

Yuck!

Oh! You mean with the 2KPSI pressure washer! I blistered my finger and thumb with one of those in a car wash, trying to restrict the flow so I could fill up a bucket. Hah!

Thanks, Rich

You _do_ mean, "raises the question", don't you?

This is one of my pet peeves - peple misusing "beg the question". To "beg the question" is to use a circular argument - to use your own assertion as its own proof.

Cheers!

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:22:38 -0500, Spehro Pefhany wrote in Msg.

And if that's not explicit enough for you, you can look at this powerpoint presentation:

robert

According to the TeeVee Nooz, Roller Derby is making a comeback. ;-) Girls' rugby might be fun to watch. :-)

Cheers! Rich

and then there's women's curling.

Indeed they do.

The washer I have is a lot meaner than a car wash. I sprayed the hubcaps of my VW, expecting to remove the road crud, and it ripped the paint off the plastic.

John

Ha. Colleen Jones is okay to look at, if she'd just keep quiet.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

The walls of the lounge of the Navy Boilerman "C" school in Phila were lined with photos of boiler accidents and detailed descriptions of what happened. The ones that I found most disturbing were those involving large steam leaks where the crew got out after breathing steam and cauterizing the inside of their lungs, so that they suffocated while breathing fresh air. Almost as scary as the venticular fibrillation that sometimes occurs after low voltage electric shock.

The best warning label I have seen was on a big diesel chipper, which had an illustration of an innattentive operator with his hand on the start/stop bar while the second half of his co-worker was being pulled through the feed rollers, with the caption "DON'T DO THIS". The owner of the chipper assured me that the label was not based on conjecture.

I'd like to see what it could do to clean up the usenet trolls around here! ;-)

Softball uses an underhanded pitch. I the fast-pitch version, the girls do a full 360-degree "windmill" windup, and fire the balls at

John

There was a US major-league player who was out drinking in the wee hours before a World-Series game. A woman remonstrated him for it, and his reply became the title of a book. "I ain't an athlete lady, I'm a baseball player."

John

Not my face, thanks.

John