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Re: cut off my finger today
At 03:34 AM 14/10/98 -0700, Cabbott Sanders wrote:
> i got so much done on my 15 kw tesla coil tonight!!! i built the
>entire
>base cabinet, base/coil junction, and wired 100' of 4 awg to my breaker
>box.. all was going well... until about 11 pm when i decided (against my
>
>conscience) to go ahead and start on my primary coil mounts. as i just
>finished the last cut of plexi, my left hand got sucked into the
>blade!!!
>(low light conditions, foggy safety glasses) . i lost my left pinki
>finger (half of it) and lasserated my ring man pretty bad.
>after it was cut off i scrambled to find the cut off piece of finger,
>and there it lay atop of a 2x4, three feet off the ground.
>(rather a forboding sequence of events).
... Snip ...
EXCEEDINGLY SORRY to hear this :-(
However, there's probably a message in here for all of us. Sometimes the
excitement of nearing completion of a project coulds our judgement .......
>Losing limbs in the name of tesla,
I suspect Nikola would be a little disappointed too !!!
Speedy recovery.
Regards,
mark
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