Update, Thursday 13 December. It is now 13 days since I stuck my fingers into the propeller of my plane. I have just returned from having the dressing renewed again and thought I would give a progress update. Fortunately everything is looking fine. There is no infection, those antibiotics must have done their job, and the swelling has gone down. However my finger still looks a mangled mess and it it has another 3 weeks of heavy dressings to go followed by a period of sticking plaster.

I have made progress on constructing Kelly Reagan's safety starting device (Kelly's article can be found @ http://www.reganspace.com/Planes/hands_free.html ). I purchased an off cut of suitable plywood and marked out the pieces from the plan. I went to see a neighbour with lots of full sized wood working machines and he cut all the pieces out for me, straight and square. This avoided any more mishaps as I find things difficult to do and hold at the moment with my finger bandaged and with the machines he also made lots of STRAIGHT cuts. I hope to get on to assembling this device next week. The one positive, I can't clean up after meals, what a nuisance, every cloud has to have a silver lining somewhere!


Remember model airplane propellers are very dangerous, we all know to keep clear of them, BUT one moments inattention, distraction or a brain dead moment, and bang, a serious accident with a chewed up or chopped off finger. Good flying guys.

Cheers

David