Ouch!A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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sabre-tooth monkey......I used to be a printer years ago and yes, these industrial guillotines do exactly what you say. The blades are a couple of metres long and are as sharp as fuck. The guillotines have a beam, that if broken, causes the blade to stop. To drop the blade through the paper you have to use two buttons (one for each hand) which are pushed at the exact same time to keep your hands out of harms way. The buttons are spaced as far as possible from each other.
Back in 1987 a popular brand of guillotine had a 'stop-use' order placed on it in the UK. There were reports of the blade re-descending (instead of stopping) when the safety beam was broken and the operator was reaching under the blade to remove the cut paper.
I'm a paramedic now and haven't been to any amputations from these machines, but I do remember a workmate losing both hands back in 1981. Must be a pun in there somewhere, but I can't think of it!
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"the saftey mechanism on this machine is really hard to work out - I'm stumped."
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 17:11,
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Same here...Used to work in various finishing departments too.
The older guillotines (many years back) used to cut straight down (opposed to ones now that cut in diagonal fashion).
Other than giving a cleaner cut, safety improved too! The straight down action put so much force on the blade (look at the flywheel to see why.) that if anything enough to stop its full decent (knocking block), the blade would shatter!
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