"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
11/13/2016 at 08:50 • Filed to: medicopnik
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"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
11/13/2016 at 08:50 • Filed to: medicopnik | 1
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Some of you may remember me asking about replacing a hard drive and then what to do with the old one. So what does this have to do with a first aid kit?
Well, I just got around to it last night and disassembled it and got to the amazingly shiny disks. I decided to basically just wing it and try to smash it with the edge of a counter and a coffee mug, the closest heavy object, and it didn’t break. So I’m playing with it bending it (it was flexing a bit, I’ll get to my theory later) when it just snaps!
It didn’t injury me, but there were two shiny disks. So I was a dumbass and decided I would just manhandle the second one. (IIRC in the last post of this topic. Someone specifically told me to careful with this shit. You were 1,000% right sir/ma’am) Well this disk turned out to not be nearly as flexible and giving me a pretty good cut on my thumb. When I felt it cut me it felt like a paper cut, but when I looked down there was HOLY SHIT IS MY THUMB STILL ATTACHED!? Amounts of blood.
Long story short is really wasn’t that bad. Although it did make my kitchen and bathroom look like a murder scene. However, it certainly did require more medical stuff than just the band-aids in my medicine cabinet. To stop the bleeding I wound up having to make an improvised pressure dressing with a wadded up piece of paper towel and a band-aid, and apply manual pressure for at least 20 min to get it to stop. Not fun.
Moral of the story: You never know when you’ll need more than a band-aid. I’d been working with power tools most of the week and wound up fucking myself up on a piece of computer, go figure. So go buy a first-aid kit now before you forget!
Also my theory about the first disk flexing more. Is that maybe it suffered some kind of heat damage, perhaps causing the HHD to fail in the first place and, making it more flexible than the second disk. But I don’t really know, just a theory.
djmt1
> DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/13/2016 at 09:08 |
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First aid kits, diarrhoea and allergy tablets are something everyone should always have at hand because when they aren’t, oh man does it suck.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/13/2016 at 09:10 |
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I’ve used plastic wrap and electrical tape to cover up a cut before.
DipodomysDeserti
> DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/13/2016 at 09:17 |
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Butterfly bandages are a must. They’ve saved me a trip to the ER on multiple occasions
StoneCold
> DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/13/2016 at 09:46 |
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I’m going to hijack your thread and say to anyone else: DO NOT MESS AROUND WITH HARD DRIVE PLATTERS. If they bust they usually crumble to dust like Pyrex. That’s powdered GLASS. That stuff royally screws up your respiratory system if you breathe it in. Like, a significant chance of filling your lungs with your own blood and scarring your throat innards.
Glad you are okay though.
Nibby
> DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
11/13/2016 at 10:16 |
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also carry around a sewing machine at all times, you never know when you will need to piece together body parts to solve a human jigsaw puzzle
Funktheduck
> StoneCold
11/13/2016 at 12:05 |
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I didn’t know that. Pretty scary
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DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
> StoneCold
11/13/2016 at 12:30 |
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god dayum. I was lucky then.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time
01/07/2017 at 18:53 |
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My friends make fun of me for keeping multiple first aid kits (one upstairs, one downstairs and one in the car) and a couple of fire extinguishers (car and kitchen), calling me paranoid and disaster prone (although that’s kind of stupid because I haven’t needed any of them in all the years I’ve had them). I feel better knowing that they’re there in case I need them rather needing them and not having them. Gawd, is this what responsibility and maturity feels like???