So...I burned the shit out of my forearm today...NOT my fault. asshole partner Ray only listens to half of what I say. I told him we needed a torch, flux and a rag so we could start pulling apart the fittings, and a bucket of water so we could cool them off immediately instead of letting them sit around on the work station at around...500 degrees...Naturally while he was off getting the other materials I was trying to take the zone valves off of the pipes so we wouldn't have to worry about burning them. (I'm pretty good with a torch, he tends to char the shit out of everything apparently) He comes back with the flux and torch, and begins heating everything up while I'm still taking the zone valves off...and the entire structure is kinda...wobbling around on the table because he didn't use the vise I made him bring over. I finish up and do what I'm supposed to do, (help like a good partner) so I start putting the copper into the vise, to hold it still and I tell him what pieces to heat up first so we can more easily disassemble everything.
Naturally I burned myself first, when he had put down a piece of pipe on the table behind me, and I had backed into it accidentally. Then he kept dropping pieces on the table behind me, after he had heated them up to take them apart. The piece that finally made the nice triangular burn on my arm, was originally copper. Now it's charcoal. It was fucking BLACK. copper turns black when you burn it. oxygen burning turning into carbon...yadda yadda. well I didn't see it, and was reaching over onto the table, I felt it. for about a second. then I winced and yanked my arm back. I was kinda pissed. lol.
Please note...in my pictures...my skin color is that of uncooked chicken, and the burn is nice and red. It's not a bad burn, and the pain subsided about an hour ago. I've seen bad burns. I've seen burns that were much worse than this, that were accidental and self inflicted. lol. Most of those stories end with "Boy I felt stupid after that." lol...
But I have to end with...this story can't even compare to my teacher's example yesterday of how when he golfs he gets his balls dirty.
Naturally I burned myself first, when he had put down a piece of pipe on the table behind me, and I had backed into it accidentally. Then he kept dropping pieces on the table behind me, after he had heated them up to take them apart. The piece that finally made the nice triangular burn on my arm, was originally copper. Now it's charcoal. It was fucking BLACK. copper turns black when you burn it. oxygen burning turning into carbon...yadda yadda. well I didn't see it, and was reaching over onto the table, I felt it. for about a second. then I winced and yanked my arm back. I was kinda pissed. lol.
Please note...in my pictures...my skin color is that of uncooked chicken, and the burn is nice and red. It's not a bad burn, and the pain subsided about an hour ago. I've seen bad burns. I've seen burns that were much worse than this, that were accidental and self inflicted. lol. Most of those stories end with "Boy I felt stupid after that." lol...
But I have to end with...this story can't even compare to my teacher's example yesterday of how when he golfs he gets his balls dirty.