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Re: watch those fingers


Hi Cabbott, 

     Very very sorry to here of your injury!  We are always concerned about 
the electrical dangers of coiling but there are, of course, other dangers as 
well.  Power tools, chemicals, fires, exploding parts, etc. can also present 
significant dangers to us.
     I hope you recover quickly and can get back to your very interesting 
work.

     Terry



At 03:17 AM 10/14/98 -0700, you 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). i
>just got back from the hospital they tried to re-attach the stump but it was
>too ground up.  :-(  Now i am on pain killers but when i heal i cant wait to
>fire my big bruiser coil up! (no pun intended!!)
>
>Losing limbs in the name of tesla,
>--
>Cabbott Sanders
>Salem Oregon
>Website: http://members.aol-dot-com/cabbotttt
>Phone 503-390-8992
>Cel   503-930-9173
>
>"And things were going so good too!"
>
>
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