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Author Topic: Most Painful Mistake? Bryan M. Montgomery Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Chillicothe, Ohio Registered: Jul 2007 posted 01-26-2008 11:56 PM                        Heres one of many bleeding in the booth stories I have. I was installing film cleaner brackets on some Xetron platters. You have to remove a large carriage bolt, install the bracket, then reinsert the bolt and tighten.Pretty simple. I was using a box-end wrench on one side and a crescent wrench on the other using a grip which had the handle end upward, while tightening it that last nudge, the crescent let go, (as they always do)and the handle proceded to quickly plant itself into my right eyesocket. I dropped the tools and ran for the booth bathroom where I painfully pried open my eyelids to inspect the damage. Luckily I was not met with the sight of a bloody eye-less hole, but I had a large swollen black eye by the time I reached the lobby. Damn that sucked.  |  IP: Logged Sonja O'Reilly Film Handler Posts: 18 From: San Diego County, CA, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-29-2008 05:30 AM                     We had a "marathon" for the Saw movies this past autumn. I was sitting next to the MUT, breaking down our last print, Saw 1, and was very happy that I was going to be previewing Darjeeling Ltd. Halfway through breaking reel 5, the ring collapsed, and sent the whole film flying at me. That didn't hurt me. What hurt was frantically reaching across the MUT to turn it off and burning my arm on the plastic reel. (I still have that scar.) Our GM came in and previewed Darjeeling for me, and I spent a few hours cursing the film and putting it back together to break it down. Needless to say, I called Technicolor and recommended that they no longer use that print. I also don't sit when I'm breaking. I've also shocked myself on a MUT, but that's what I get for fiddling with the belt while it's still plugged in and letting my arm brush against wiring. I've given myself a blood blister when my wrench slipped while adjusting the bottom roller on a... MUT. I'm noticing a pattern. I think the MUTs are out to get me.  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 01-29-2008 07:29 AM                    slammed my hand in the projection booth door yesterday. that hurt. and its one of those magnetic locking ones... it got close enough to the magnet it started squishing my finger (once id removed two of them) between the door and frame. i had to enter the keycode in the wall to release the door. got a bruise today from that!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-29-2008 08:22 AM                        This thread is making things hurt on me that never hurt before....like my eyeball socket. Socket wrench -- one of the more evil of the inanimate objects, all of which are perverse at their core. Peter, surely this magnetic door thing has to violate some safety reg. What does OSHA say about a door that can engage a huge pull on it capable of catching your fingers like that? Surely a safety disengage switch on the inside wall would be in order. Suppose you couldn't reach the keyswitch or remember your code, which would not be an unheard of scenario given that your fingers are caught and you are screaming in pain. What....you'd have to wait there until someone came by to release the magnetic lock? Bad, bad system. Seems like there should be some sort of sensing device like they have with garage doors that will release the door if there is a certain amount of resistance....like you freakin hand and fingers caught in it. We had magnetic locks installed on ever door in the complex; they never worked....low bid. I do know the pull they exert....it's nothing to sneeze at. Safety mechanisms need to be put in place I would think. I'll throw in one more -- there was a time, when I first got into the booth that there were nothing but metal reels -- pressed sheet metal (always bent) that prints came on and the aluminum "house reels" that you wound the print onto. Lots of times you would be hand rewinding and the natural thing was to use one hand to crack the rewind and the other to control the other spinning reel. You applied pressure on the top of the reel, you palm pressing down on the two flanges -- basically using your had as a break. On occasion you would actually break both reels to avoid a spin-out disaster by putting hard pressure down on both reels. Then came plastic reels. I used the same method -- keeping one hand on top of the spinning reel to control the speed. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to me, the heat that the metal reel dissipates from the friction of your skin on it is VERY different than what plastic will dissipate. Plastic dissipates practically NO heat. So the first time I clamped my hand down on a plastic reel to stop it from spinning-out, I burned two track marks right across my palm. It took weeks for the marks to fade. Hurt like hell too. Ah, the learning curve.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-29-2008 09:35 AM                     No painful stories to relate but one thats pretty funny... We were installing the 2nd booth at the Melody Drive in one very hot summer and my co-worker was hooking up he 3 phase rectifier wiring at the panel. I wasn't in the booth and had been taking some pictures outside when he had started... but I walked in behind him he didn't hear me come in because he was so absorbed in what he was doing... I used that moment to set off my flash just as he inserted a wire under one of the screws on the triple breaker and he about jumped through the ceiling . After he came back down off the exhaust blower I reminded him... Tom... that panel is still dead! Mark  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-29-2008 09:54 AM                        quote: @Leo Enticknap "Freeze, you Motherfuckers" was said by Amanda Plummer playing Honey Bunny and not Uma Thurman playing Mia Wallace 'YOU'RE A NAUGHTY BOY AND YOU HAVE TO BE PUNISHED!'  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-29-2008 01:51 PM                     Hey, isn't that Mr Bean's car he's crucifying there? Mark  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-29-2008 02:40 PM                        It's the infamous car-thrashing scene from Fawlty Towers. The car (one of those hideous British cars from the '70s that were always breaking down) dies once too often and Basil loses his rag, repeatedly hitting it with a tree branch and screaming 'You're a naughty car and you've got to be punished!' (or words to that effect).  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 02-01-2008 05:28 PM                    back to the topic. this week (as in, today as its friday)i have somehow got a graze on my right forearm, a cut on my thumb and index finger, a graze on the skin between the base of the thumb and my index finger... a bruise on my right shin, cramp in my right foot, and a splittin headache. no harm to the left side of my body though. yet! how can projection be so dangerous!!!????  |  IP: Logged

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