How many people have bled building their computer?

[n-ster]

My breakfast tastes... sooo much better now >.<

 

[kurosagi01]

I only end up with a minor cut when i build my desktop.

 

[MohawkAngel]

I have cut my thumbs..or should i say stopped a fan with my thumb...5900 rpm old socket 370 turbine fan.

 

[mlee49]

Blood, sweat, but no tears shed.

 

[dustyshiv]

Scythe Ultrakaze and San Ace fans on my rad cut me several times. Now i always disconnect the fan power and then work on anything near it....

 

[douglatins]

Jokes aside, i stopped bleeding building my rig when i started purchasing quality cases, that dont have think sheets or shard edges.

 

[radeon747]

A couple of times on spinning fans and a bad one with a back panel plate. Sucker ripped through me like paper.

http://img.techpowerup.org/100821/io_shield_backpannel_plate.jpg

Same as me done my fingers on three fans spinnig and broken the fans of course and a io sheid plate which cut my finger pretty bad. Wouldnt stop bleding for atleast half an hour rely shity because i was so anxious to get the rig running LOL.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

None of my cases have made me bleed because I don't buy cheap cases. It's usually other people's OEM cases that draw blood.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Here's the picture of MailMan's finger, actually his thumb, right afterwards ...

http://img.techpowerup.org/100821/mm_finger.jpg

Thats MRSA. I had that before. Not fun. I even started a thread about it. I thought it was a spider bite but instead turned out to be a flesh eating bacteria. No joking.

 

[WarEagleAU]

Kreij, that looks like some kind of bad accident burn from a safety video ha ha.

Panther and Mailman have the funniest.

Panther, I have cut my finger twice checked the direction of airflow on several case fans. I/O Plate never cut me, thats why I go with Asus (LOL)

Have cut my nail and cuticle area messing with the clamps on the water tubes. Cut myself on my Xigmatek cooler once. Crap is a pain but nothing too serious. Oh and I did burn the side of my finger with a soldering iron. Since I did it at work so many times, was no issue.

 

[n-ster]

oh btw... I always check the cfm with my face...

 

[computertechy]

making cable management holes in my old lian-li PC-P80 with a dremel, slipped............13 stitches to my wrist and could see my tendons LOL

also like others the IO shield.

 

[n-ster]

I gave up on my IO shield.... taped it to the back of my case LOL

 

[TechPowerDown]

I gave up on my IO shield.... taped it to the back of my case LOL

thats haliorous

 

[cadaveca]

Must make a sacrifice on each build, I think. There's no choice in it for me...I generally wear white cotton gloves to prevent fingerprints, but still get hurt. Happens most often when placing PSU, and routing power cables.

Still healing from the last:

 

[n-ster]

last time I got hurt, it was 3 slits on my wrist... I don't even remember how, think I was cable managing.... anyhow, I was hiding my wrists for the next 2 weeks cuz I felt like a sadomasochist

 

[Techtu]

last time I got hurt, it was 3 slits on my wrist... I don't even remember how, think I was cable managing.... anyhow, I was hiding my wrists for the next 2 weeks cuz I felt like a sadomasochist

It didn't turn out to be, the more you tried to hide the cuts the more people suspected you was actually doing it?

 

[JATownes]

I have cut myself multiple time, always on a cheap case.

 

[Techtu]

Now there should be a thread made polling on what part we have cut our selfs the most on

 

[TechPowerDown]

Now there should be a thread made polling on what part we have cut our selfs the most on

I might when i have time to write a list

 

[xrealm20]

Actually cut my index finger on my right hand at the knuckle bad enough to get stitches - was pulling some cables for two new 160GB IDE drives I had purchased many moons ago. Needless to say, I cut through the joint sack and actually severed around 70% of the tendons in my knuckle. My finger now is still screwed up, as it will never be perfectly straight again. I'll post pictures here later -

 

[TechPowerDown]

Actually cut my index finger on my right hand at the knuckle bad enough to get stitches - was pulling some cables for two new 160GB IDE drives I had purchased many moons ago. Needless to say, I cut through the joint sack and actually severed around 70% of the tendons in my knuckle. My finger now is still screwed up, as it will never be perfectly straight again. I'll post pictures here later -

Thats an awesome story

can't wait to see the pictures.

 

[CDdude55]

Never had any major accidents have happened to me with my computer that caused me to draw blood.

I have gotten small cuts though, like when i'll be working in a computer that's pretty small and the PSU is at the top, what tends to happen to me a lot is that when i try pulling and wiggling the DVD rom drive power cable out, and i end up hitting the back of my hand against the PSU. I have learned to use more wiggling then pulling when it comes to power cables now though. lol

I've also had a time where i was holding a screw while the computer was on and laying down, and i accidentally dropped the screw inside the computer which then hit the stock heatsink fan and flew incredible fast into the DVD rom drive bay. Luckily it wasn't my eye.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

ive sacrified to the HW gods in my early hw days(10 yrs ago) , i mean, those cases back then :shadedshu

oh and I/O areas

 

[Solaris17]

side panel, dremel. those were the worst. rest was bumping into HDD cages and peeling skin off.