PSA propellors!!!

next Wednesday the cast will come off and stay off
but the rehab will take 2 to 6 months (coser to 6 months according the the doctor)

they needed 2 doctors and 3 hours time to fix my hand btw

Oh man sorry to hear this was it a APC or Master they are sharp !!!

Peter! what happened dude?

Oh man, that got to hurt

I wish you a speedy recovery, let’s hope it’s closer to 2 months than 6.

it took me 3 weeks to think of a dumb way to make a topic and keep it light
but seeing that you guys what some details here it is

here I am jobless at home sick of looking at vacancy's.
so I decide to start a engine just to hear it run.
so I mount her on the stand I prime her.....
and she decides she must run
so the propellor (40cm) decides my hand is a perfect target

to make a long story short
manage to call for help (inbetween fainting and making a mess)
and after a long wait to the operation room

and to paint a picture of how bad it was
I apperently have white bones in my hand

What were you running? Even a .049 can do damage. APC propellers are really sharp but any prop is capable of injury. An APC on anything above a .049 can be deadly.

I tried running this asshole
a ys f91
and a 16*10 prop (40cm point to point)

Yeah, looks APC ish to me. Your lucky you didn't lose something altogether.

I did lose something
blood, control of my thumb and most of the feeling on the top of my thumb

I did gain many scars

robot797 wrote:I did lose something
blood, control of my thumb and most of the feeling on the top of my thumb

I did gain many scars

.......I meant a finger or thumb left twitching on the floor.

yea i knew
but I tried keeping it light

robot797 wrote:yea i knew
but I tried keeping it light

I hope that you heal up well.  There are hand specialists I hope that you got a good one.  We need those things in our hobby.

I totally agree
and I think it will be good enough again
but untill then I have to learn to live as a left handed person (am right handed)

Holy Smokes Dude Sorry that you are going through this. I saw someone try to reach through the prop on a 40 size engine . I tried to yell but I was yo late . He had to get several stitches

I had around 14-20 extermal stitches
and I dont know how many internal ones I have (the 2 cut tendons had to be stitched)

rsv1cox wrote:Yeah, looks APC ish to me.  .........  

APC: Awfully Painful Cut

or
Awsome People Cutter

as the doctor says it will take 6 months to be back to your old self
a scar I will have/keep
as for the feeling only time will tell

but all I know is that I was dam lucky

I have been racking my brain..........PSA propellers.........? PSA propellers????? Ah, got it. ASP backwards. I have several in different sizes. I use a chicken stick on them. Unusual for me as I'm a finger flipping guy. Be careful out there, this isn't exactly a model train hobby although Cox did make model trains.

yea I now know plastic props suck
I think testing a engine will be done with flywheels in the future

Thanks, Bob, for decyphering PSA, I was too shy to ask what PSA stood for.

ASP are the best propeller design I have encountered so far, but the material is a bit brittle and the props break too easy for me, typically landing with no landing gear,  on tall grass...even if I set the prop horizontal where compression starts, making sure the dead stick landing has the prop stopped in horizontal position, it breaks iften when hitting the grass

And yes, they are pretty sharp on the leading edge and the tip too. One should take extra caution when flipping it and keeping your hand clear from the spinning prop..been there, done that, seen that...

balogh wrote:Thanks, Bob, for decyphering PSA, I was too shy to ask what PSA stood for....

well it was ment as public service announcement
but I do like the mirror or asp also