Ok..I guess I may as well throw my hand in too...oops. I too stuck my hand in a prop about 5 years ago. It was a Super Tiger .90 and an APouchC prop, it was a stupid mistake and I knew better but as humans we are allowed some stupid moves...right?? Well it cut the hell out of 3 fingers with the index digit tip hanging down and blood everywhere. I got to the ER at 5 pm and left at 1 am. and had to be in the hospital the next morning for a tendon repair and a rod about 1/16" in dia. was drilled thru the tip of the finger all the way to the first knuckle closest to my hand. On the piece of rod sticking out of the end of my finger the Dr. made a loop and it stayed that way for 6 wks. The idea was to attach the severed tindon that went across the knuckle. ...OK I am getting to the end...I promise...the time came for the pin to be removed and I thought I would get some happy juice and I would not be awake for the procedure but was I ever wrong...the doc latched onto the wire with some Stanley pliers and started twisting and I am starting to turn this odd hue of green but to my surprise it did not hurt..uum..that is until he got the wire past my knuckle closest to the tip of the finger and ...OOHH MYYY GODDDDD...Yes Thelma...IT HURT!!!!!!!!!!!
I was very popular when I first got to the ER because someone had told all the docs and nurses that a man stuck his hand into an airplane prop and thier minds could only imagine some for slob in the ER with his hand missing and sporting a stub...once I told them what happened I was not so popular any more.

P.S. As soon as the Dr. pulled the rod out of my finger the tip just drooped down and stayed that way for ever.

Moral of the story is as follows..."GET BEHIND THE PROP TO RUN UP"