Frosty Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 GREAT idea Hans! Make safety clothing with a gel layer. When something burns a hole in it the gel puts it out, the bigger the hole the more gel. A nice skin cream next to the skin and we have ourselves a marketable piece of PPE! ooh OOH! How about a non-newtonian gel that hardens on impact to protect against getting hit by things? I think we're really onto something here guys! Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Hmm a non-newtonian hair gel might have served me back when I had more air... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Had more AIR? Wouldn't non-newtonian Lock tight be more like it? If I ever make one of the big conferences I'll want to camp upwind won't I? Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Hair; but enjoy the typo. I have a folding hat in my computer bag as I'm not allowed to wear one at work but wearing one to work is a very good idea out here in melanomaland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 I do so love a good typo, thank you. I used to let my head tan up but since having the shingles on my face sunlight feels like a burn. Heck a dry day makes the left side of my face feel like a bad 1st. degree sunburn and a sunburn is . . . bad. Sunscreen and aloe gel are my friends. I burn under my straw hat or folding cloth hat. Either isn't comfortable to wear but they beat a burn. So, there's the next layer of gel, a solar activated non-newtonian sunscreen hat. Maybe make that layer spray a mist when the sun hits it, the more sun the more it sprays. Someone in Japan, I believe, has already invented and markets charcoal, odor-eater underclothes. No ground floor market with that one. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Now there’s something you definitely don’t want to catch fire! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar.esq Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 This post reminds me of a long day at work as an apprentice electrician. We were upsizing the electrical service to a house with a basement. The existing feeder cable was routed through the basement wall and into the panel. We needed a larger hole through the cinderblock wall to allow the larger cable. I dutifully measured twice both inside and out. The cable came up out of the meter, through the wall, and then down into the panel. I started hammer-drilling above the existing cable from the outside which was a muddy slope. I got about two inches into the wall when a brilliant white spark leaped out of the hole and straight into my chest. It hurt something awful but I kept my composure and pulled the drill out. As I set the drill down, I noticed a spot on my shirt which turned out to be a hole. I pulled my shirt up and found a little cup-shaped piece of copper colored metal burned into my chest. I popped it out, thankfully it cauterized the wound, but I still have a scar from it. Still wondering what happened when I noticed that two thirds of the carbide tip of the drill had burnt completely away! I figure I was struck by the brazing material. It turned out that the original electrician had installed the cable in the meter, stuck it through the holes, then pushed the slack up into the web of the cinderblock to save the time in cutting it. When I drilled through the wall, I clipped one of the main feeders for the house! Until then, it had never occurred to me that someone would do such a thing. Thank goodness I was using a double-insulated drill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpankySmith Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 Oh. M. G. Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 And THAT'S why we calls em sparkies, Spanky! Smell like BBQ Rockstar? I was working on a piece and it tipped over on me. I had no choice but to push it off. It was smoking hot and left the palms of my hands shiny and smoking lightly. They smelled like BBQ and one of the guys I worked with said to hold on he'd perform first aid. He got a bottle of BBQ sauce out the locker with one of the 1st. aid kits in it. Everybody had a laugh while he silvadined my hands and I was good as new the next day. Great stuff silvadine! Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 12 hours ago, Frosty said: Great stuff silvadine! Yep, got a large tub of SSD that my doctor prescribed when I had a bad staff infection on my leg. Use it all the time for burns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar.esq Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Frosty, I wouldn't say that BBQ came to mind. You've got me wondering if Alaskans just toss their Yeti onto the grill hair and all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 rockstar: When I first read your reply in my email notices, I started composing a response about NOT having hair on the palms of my hands. Then I recalled your experience and it made sense. Yeti fur knits into warm caps and sweaters but it's a little too itchy for socks and scarves. They shed out in spring and you can collect the fur from brush, same as musk ox. It needs really thorough washing though. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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