Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Note that we have learned by sad experience that when using one of those neat cutting machines it is necessary to make absolutely sure that when the blade is in the raised position that it is completely up and locked before adjusting the paper to be cut with your very vulnerable fingers . . .Ouch. You really did that? Oh how that must have hurt. I usually stick to accidents with the smaller kitchen knifes. Those at least can be selfmedicated. All the rest I'm too scared of to not be extremely carefull with.
Sonja GCU: I know where the band-aid is.
Yes, I did that.
Note that I am not talking about the type of paper cutter which has a long blade at one side which is hinged at the back and has a handle at the front so you can pull it down to cut the paper at the edge of the board, but the type in which you clamp the paper and then the lever applies some mechanical advantage to press down a heavy straight blade with enough force to cut through at least a couple of hundred sheets of ordinary-weight paper. The problem was that the cutter was set close enough to a wall that it was easy to not get the lever all the way back to the locked position when it was raised, and it slipped and fell under its own weight while I was trying to line up the paper (some multi-colored Post-It� pads I was cutting into strips to use as page marker flags) for the next cut. The blade was so sharp that the cut was so clean that it didn't bleed at first, meaning that no one else knew I had cut my thumb until I came back from the bathroom with some paper towels wrapped around it and told them. I lost a piece off one side of that thumb and nail about the size of a small pea, but it healed and grew back just fine, although it was a bit uncomfortable and awkward to use for a few weeks.
FWIW, it was at about this time of year: I was using the paper cutter in the copy center at school, and it was the week before spring break, 2 or 3 years ago.
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science University of Montevallo Montevallo, AL
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