KW_Counter

David,
I sent you a PM about this article.
KW_Counter

dignlivn

Glad your oK !


My motto is NO sudden moves when starting and
moving an aircraft. Because it only takes a second
and.


Bob

davidbegg

bang, no it is more of a dull thud, and blood and bits of finger are all over your lovely plane. Then the pain starts to cut in.

Cheers

David

w8ye

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it's happened significantly twice to me in the last 40 years
Haven't lost any fingers but it takes many yrs for for the scar tissue and nerves to recover

JJJust a flutter

The shock that sets in

The worst pain is the pain killer shots in the fingers

davidbegg

Yes I found that too, blood for miles and bits of flesh scattered about, and so on, but it didn't hurt that much. I put it down to the fact that the prop hits your fingers so hard that it numbs then from the pain?????? It is a theory, but I will pass on testing out again!


Cheers

David

w8ye

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After many yrs around model engines I had become complacent and assumed my hands would automatically stay out of the way

I have a friend that's significantly cut his arm and the back of his hand in the last three years. He didn't get any tendons but still it was a trip to the emergency room

For me this last time I was at the hospital emergency room within 5 min but sat there for 4 hrs after they had my insurance information before anyone even looked at my fingers. By then the blood had clotted in strings hanging from my fingers

Now 6 mos latter arthritis has settled into those two fingers and I have to constantly work with them to keep them limbered up and the muscles strong but the strength in that had is gone for now compared with how it was before

davidbegg

I am sorry to hear of your on going problems. I have been lucky with only a bit of a deformed finger, that is not that noticeable, and a funny damaged finger that will come right in another year or two. Do some people think a finger in the prop gives you a cut finger, you have a few stitches in it and in a month or so all better again.

SORRY, most accidents involving props and hands and fingers are much worse and much more serious than that, with long lasting affects to many RC fliers.

Cheers

David