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@kahlid-ataya, I don't know how old he is, but when he was talking about all the "vintage" motors, I realized that I must be really old because I can remember when they were new.
I know exactly how you feel Paul. Back when I was a teen, My oldest brother had just gotten out of the service. He did the stupid thing of taking an electric power drill, and attaching a circular saw blade to it. that blade spun to full speed and came out of the drill imbedding itself into the wall right next to me. I was at the other end of the garage, about 25 feet away. It was a moment that terrified me and I will never forget it. you recanting this story to us viewers woke that memory up and it flashed thought my thought like lightning!
That is terrifying but it made me laugh. I was the youngest of three and was often the guinea pig when they had some hairbrained idea to try out. Being shot with bb's and flying off the hood of a car were only two of my experiences.
Wild story! I would say the most serious close call I had was on the job sometime in the 80's soldering a component in to repair a circuit board. Suddenly I heard this POP! and the same instant, a solder blob appeared in the center of the right lens on my glasses. I can't even imagine the pain if that had hit my eye instead. Needless to say, since then, whether I wear glasses or not, I always wear eye protection when soldering.
You reminded me of when I was 19 (I'm 58 now) and working in a friend's basement with a box cutter on a project. I don't know how it happened because I was sure to cut down and away from myself, and I had no body parts near where I was cutting, but I still managed to slip somehow and slice into my left wrist right behind the joint towards the hand for about 3 inches. I cut through a big vein and several capillaries but luckily missed tendons. Unfortunately I was bleeding in spurts so bad and was in shock so quick I barely got to the top of the steps before I started to pass out. Fortunately my friend's brother and his mom were there and they got me to the hospital fast after some quick first aid. The wound required 14 stitches (4 internal, 10 external) and 1 pint of blood. I now have what looks like a small salamander for a scar on my wrist to remember that things can happen no matter how hard you try to avoid them.
@@rogertoaster9385 I use a box cutter up to hundreds of times a day, high speed, for several years and have only dinged a finger tip a few times. I'm not recommending it, but I cut towards myself more than 50% of the time (usually opening small boxes). I hold the knife in a way that my arm or base of my wrist is first to hit my body, and never have my left hand downstream of the cut. I've heard of a few nasty accidents using them, and I had a close call that left a slice through my jeans thigh area. It may help that I use a safety box cutter (extra quick to pocket) but the blade is still out until I release the slide. It's funny, typing about technique for such a basic tool, but with how common and necessary they are, like ladders, they're dangerous.
Being a small child (under 6) i attempted to disassemble a wire steered toy car with scissors. Made a gaping wound between my left hand thumb and index finger. Not much blood, looked white in inside. Decades after, 3cm scar reminds of the blunder.
Working on a high powered fan conversion for my car, replacing the mechanical fan and clutch. Your tale is sobering. Ive taken extra care, while this fan is hardened plastic the blades are sickle shaped and sharp, would lop off a finger in an instant. Thanks for the story.
I think the short lesson is that the most dangerous risks you take are the risks you aren't even aware you are taking. If you don't fully understand the design theory and physical construction of something being worked on, you could be taking your life into your own hands by tampering with it. Anything involving electricity, chemistry or heavy / fast moving objects is not a suitable domain for real-life field validation of the Dunning-Krueger Effect. The average person understands far LESS about the average topic than they think.
My father told me once that his brother had put a grinding stone on a vacuum cleaner motor! My father did stop it and said to him that when this stone does come off, it flies through the roof! Thanks for your story.
Ha! I have a friend living in the north Georgia mountains who gets backyard bears all the time! Two rules: leave them ALONE and NEVER feed them. Glad you didn't get brained by that fan, Mr. C. When I was a kid my father and I had unloaded the back of his old Ford pickup and were standing next to the front driver's side. The engine was just idling. Out of the blue something went BANG! and we didn't know what it was. I looked at the hood of the old truck and it had thrown one fan blade up and out completely through the hood not 2 feet from our heads. It left a razor sharp slot 8 inches long in the hood and we NEVER found the it. Lucky us. I think of metal fatigue sometimes while trying to sleep on airplanes...... Great little "slice of life" you shared! Glad you're ok and like I say, PREACH safety...it's a good thing to learn and practice. All the best from the Sweaty South. 73 JEFF
I am really appreciating these saftey related stories. Real stories of accidents, near misses and the like really help to drive home the safety aspects that people seem to put off to one side way too often. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos and share the stories to help us all appreciate the importance of being safe.
As the saying goes, "Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you"! Here's to guys who occupied our parents basements, our first labs and surviving uneducated mistakes. We would dump all our completed chemical experiments into old two liter bottles (the nice ones with black plastic bottoms) of which one of them my friend and I called the "stink bomb" as it ripened up. Later while I was away at camp it blew and I'm told was quite the scene! Paybacks for sending my befriended stray to a "farm in the country" perhaps... Armed with a copy of Electronics Made Simple and loads of discarded black and whites and AM tube sets, my survival was also a miracle.
Bump for rotation...I'll just show myself out... Really enjoy your videos Mr Carlson, they bring back many great and some rather scary times...I lived and learned.
Another dangerous type of fan is the metal "flex fans" which were used in some cars in the 1970s and 1980s. A mechanic I know is aware of another technician who perished when an engine was being revved by an assistant, and when he was leaning over the front of the car to reach something at the top of the engine, one of the flex fan blades separated from the hub and went through him. I have never leaned in the "path" of a fan blade of a running car engine since I learned of that fatality.
Again, I love this segment and format because it teaches us who never experienced this, not to be daring. I recall working with my grandad on the antennas. He had a pivot system, and I was I charge of lowering the antennas,he was on the opposite side to give me an indication of how far we were from touch down. I learned so much from him re safety, and when I got my digit stuck in a moving chain and sprocket,I realized how stupid and neglectful I have become. Please keep the format,we can learn so much from you and others,not to repeat simple mistakes
I love these stories. Keep 'em coming. I have a story for you. In my teens I was a passenger in a car. I was sitting in front passenger seat. No seatbelt. Really dumb. In a left turn we went off a 35 foot drop down towards sea while the car was tumbling around on it's voyage down the 35 foot drop. On it's way the roof on my side was pushed in one feet while in the same time the sentrifugal force of the roll pushed my upper body against the lap of the driver. The hit smashed my shoulder bad , but not critical and we landed on the wheels. If my movement had been restricted of any sort , my neck may have taken the hit with severe injuries. In this case the lack of seatbelts may have saved my life.
Oh man! What a story. I would keep the blade around also just to remind me of how fortunate i am to still be here. Great story and thanks for sharing it with us.
I love these safety talks with so many close calls in my own life. Talking of spring lost a valve spring from a cylinder head of a car which went a couple of houses away past my head.
Really enjoying this little series. This kind of knowledge is invaluable. Of course most lessons are learned firsthand, but it's always good to be reminded of the little things we often overlook. My biggest lesson was a jack failing within a second of getting out from underneath a car and eventually losing a few friends to the same mistake.
Glad you're here with us! My most dangerous situations were unknown dangers created by others. You really gotta be overly cautious. Working on machines of others, I've come across so many dangerous modifications. External power sources, modification of cams, contactors, and even ladder logic from sub par repairs. Half the time it was the customer themselves, but they'll send you in without telling you the stuff they "thought might help". Anyway, I mostly stick to the software world nowadays, but your videos really take me back to working on CNC and industrial machines.
Isn't it always concerning we you hear a CNC owner talk about modifying the parameters or the ladder?! It's bad enough to see their wonderful wiring updates...
Good morning Paul! Really enjoying these stories that you're sharing with us. I'm finding we have more in common than I thought. First engine I started playing with was when I was 9 years old, was a three horsepower Tecumseh engine on my go-kart. It was after a 4-H course put on by my neighbor who owned and operated a small service station next door. Go-karts dirt bikes, you name it. I really think it's a great idea that you focus in on safety in each case and provide some insight. Great video!
I appreciate your repair tutorials as well as anecdotes such as this. Please keep it up. I do have to question how many old Tek scopes any one person needs however... :)
When the SHOP hits the FAN ??? Glad you still have all your original parts Paul. A somewhat similar event almost cost me some skin. I used to own a 66 Chevy "mid-engine " van which had a removable engine cover between the front seats. One time when my sister was riding with me, she sometimes would sit on the engine cover if I had another passenger in the right seat. On one drive, a blade from the motor cooling fan sheared off the shaft and sliced through the side of the metal engine cover, cutting some of the wiring harness and stalling the motor. Since the van came to a halt, I found the broken blade under my driver seat, leaving an eight inch long tear that could have easily caused severe bodily damage . Talk about a butt puckering close call. We try to be safe, but sometimes the FAN has other plans.
Really glad that fan episode didn't go anywhere near as badly as it could have. Reminded me of something that happened a long time ago. I was at my local pub late in the morning and the place had some fans mounted on the ceiling. They had blades about two to three feet long and about six inches wide attached to central hubs hanging from the ceiling. There were only three or four people in the place and one of the owners behind the bar. I was sitting at a window table not far from below one of them. The screws holding the blades on the hub must have shaken loose and one of the blades detached from the hub and flew within a foot of my head and hit the next table with quite a bit of damage to both the blade and the table. The look on the owner's face was priceless realizing how close that was to a catastrophic event. I got very lucky.
Yes I have seen that done. Right motor not available, tool room available, key way machined in, so the key will keep it from coming apart. Usually has pulley mounted on it.
This type of experiences are what took us to where we are today. We all need to experiment, at least in our youths, but hopefully for our entire lives. The ones who survived and told the stories scare the young ones into a little bit of sanity, yet then they tend to still add chapters to “the book of close calls”.
having single mother made for a very boring childhood as a boy... so many things i could've learned from a father, oh well. i suppose better now than never. cool bear!
When switching up fan blades and motors a very important spec to pay attention to is the rpm rating of the blade. After spending 50 years in the HVAC trade I have seen a lot of wrecks with fans. I have seen home owners install 800 rpm rated blades on 3600 rpm motors. Each blade will break off the hub and create three or four projectiles traveling at an extremely high rate of speed.
Always good to spread the word of safety. If just single persons life/limb/eye... is saved it's worth a sea of complaints from reckless folks that don't care about their others.
Paul kinda liked the 'close' haircut the fan blade gave him, and has stuck with that style to this day :) Thanks for sharing Paul. It was an unexpected pleasure to see the local wildlife at the end. Made for a very relaxing conclusion to the video.
I had a similar experience as a teenager working in a welding shop. I learned how to stick weld and how to wire feed weld. These skills have served me well in life. Also, I started early with electricity and electronics. I was fortunate to live near a major Electronics Warehouse with counter service. I got to know the people who worked there, and they steered me toward great Electronics projects. I was 10 years old when I started hanging around the electronics Warehouse. Looking back, in terms of learning about the properties of metal and electronics, I had a very interesting late childhood and teenage years.
A fan and a bear! We have a black bear circulating in our neighborhood as well. I have not seen it, but neighbors have and it had made the newspapers and TV news. Good story BTW. Looking forward to the car story.
Man! We are all so daring when we are young. The best thing to come out of your scary experience is that you LEARNED from it and from then on became much more aware of safety. That experience could have actually saved your life- in later years- from another lethal mistake that might have happened otherwise. So I guess, be thankful for it.
Great story Paul, When you showed the fan blade I immediately knew what you were going to say. I had a similar experience when I was 11 or 12 years old. I took a smaller metal fan blade, (maybe 12 inches) like the one you showed and stuck it on a vacuum cleaner motor. It was one of those bullet shaped vacuums. Mine wasn't attached to the bench I just laid it on the concrete floor of the garage. When I plugged it in the whole thing took off like a helicopter, straight up and hit the ceiling. When it hit the ceiling, the motor came loose from the blade and dropped while the blade bounced around like yours did. Glad to hear that you didn't get hurt, I didn't either but it was one of those oh crap moments. There's still a mark on the ceiling where it hit. Thanks for sharing these stories.
My goodness what a great story. That could happen to just about anyone... And not much room for grace embedded within that type of error. 😬Mr. Carlson recieved such grace that day for sure.
Really enjoy your 'crazy' experience stories! I'm sure most of us here were doing crazy / risky experiments years ago (in the 1980s and 1990s for me), so we can relate!
Yikes I can imagine the shock of that blade flying past your face. Funny coincidence I also collected and tinkered with what are now antique fractional horsepower induction motors. I had Westinghouse Canada, Tamper (which I still have), Leland Electric and CGE and others up to 5 hp. I inherited one complete exhaust fan belonging to my great grandfather circa WWII which I ran with only the front exposed. Kept a long cord so going near it wasn't necessary. I currently have one from England I plan to build a portable room exhaust out of (and it won't be finger accessible and its not open either). I was warned by my dad about running open fans beyond little desk fans. Glad you escaped! Kept your guardian angel busy😊 Haven't been that close to a bear in many years.
The more familiar I am with you and your astounding knowledge, drive and quietly tough presence (following the science and observing the laws) , the more I will absorb when you tear apart something like "an Icom R-71" down to the wingnuts. The prep work . Managing the kind of productive thinking you have is quite a skill in itself.. And quite a volume of good work. many thousand Thanks!
Who would have expected a two-piece shaft on a motor? But almost everyone who started young and enjoyed constructing neat things has to have some good stories. Here's one of mine: I built up a H.V plate voltage power supply for some project in senior high physics class (1964) from surplus components. The primary filter cap was one of those old multi-segment electrolytic cans rated at something like 40mfd@450v if I recall correctly. Input was to a C.T transformer into a full wave bridge (5U4). Me and a bunch of guys in the lab were gathered over this thing. It did look good, if I do say so myself. Just before powering it up for the first time, some little voice whispered that I should have everyone to stand away. I am still thankful that I did. When I hit the power switch that thing hummed for about five seconds while the filaments in the 5U4 reached operating heat at which time the filter cap cannister exploded leaving the chassis at a very high velocity, sounding like somebody fired a short barrel 12 gauge. On the way up, it contacted a fluorescent tube light fixture with its old style metal egg-crate diffuser. Whereupon it neatly embedded itself on the diffuser fins slicing the can about half way thru. We actually spent some time looking all around the lab for the can until someone looked up. I am quite sure that severe injuries would have resulted if some of us had remained looking down on it when it launched. No caps have been used since without being tested out of circuit and no first power runs are done at full input voltage. But there was that time when I became the unknowing bleeder resistance for a pair of 872s and their oil filled capacitor bank. The experience was electrifying. Why we are not all dead is a pure act of providence.
Glad your still alive. WOW. Closest thing to that that I had happen was intentionally destroy a lawnmower engine highest of RPMs and a part of aluminum connecting rod flew out of the block at me and was stupid when young to put a iron bolt on train track to see if it would get squashed and waited for the train and heard it wiz by me like a bullet. Never did that again!
Not quite as close a call as yours but I learned my lesson with uncovered fans young as well. My dad's shop had a fan salvaged from an old outdoor AC unit we left running pretty much 24/7. One day we hear a bang followed by crashing and go out to inspect. The rivets for one of the blades had worked themselves loose over time. We found the blade embedded about 6 inches into the sheet metal wall and the now very unbalanced motor had torn itself loose and left a trail of destruction across the shop. High speed rotating objects should never be left unshielded. Period.
Dang, you get bears in your yard?? I always thought you were in a residential area in BC like Abbotsford or Kelowna... I didn't expect there would be bears there without going into the mountain forests... another hazard for Mr. Carlson - bears! Great you caught the hummingbird taking a break for a sweet drink.
‼️ Wait, bear in the tree in your backyard!! Is that normal? Can’t be normal! Mind blowing. Thanks for the stories of you “exciting” youth. I think it must be the “right of passage” into adulthood. If you make, you earned it. 😊
I remember the junior in our office equipment repair workshop on a server I asked him to get ready to teach him. He had powered it up & looked over from my desk to see him mesmerised by the strip light made it look like standing still which he moved finger forward until it hit the blade taking top off fingers. The hospital did a great job putting it back on. Racing cars I have been warned so much with working on cars this can happen but never expected it at work repairing office equipment. Big lesson of strobing lights!
Every time you tell one of these stories I feel luckier and luckier that you're still around. Also, I was fixing a friends nicotine-coated police scanner and also cleaned the case up so good - Wite-Out and all on the knobs, that the old guy may accuse me of buying a replacement. :) Thanks to you.
A close call, glad you weren't hurt. I've had a few, too, in and under cars, in airplanes, on bicycles and with electronic circuits in my younger days. We're all glad you lived to tell us about your misadventures, Paul, but like all sane people, let's try not to have too many more of them.
HELLO MR.BEAR :D We don't get bears much, just coyotes, deer, and the occasional bobcat. And plenty of hummingbirds! I saw one eat a very small spider right off its web a couple of days ago. I was... _not_ expecting that, but there it was and, well, there it went!
When I was in my mid teens I had two kitchen exhaust fans. I decided to make a double window fan. I mounted them on a wood box, and tried to hook them up, and ended up with a good shock, because nothing was grounded. I’m fortunate that I didn’t seriously hurt myself. And yes, it was bare blades.
Hey, Paul, thanks for sharing the scary stories! I know a lot of us were thinking you are either perfect or edit out the bloopers, 😄. You are correct - nothing is more important than safety. I'm surprised I still have all my digits looking back on some of my capers. As a friend of mine says, adrenalin is funny stuff. keep up the great videos & stay safe! Don't go poking the bear....🤭
Back in 1977 I did the same thing using a 1hp 3600 rpm motor. Thankfully it did not have a threaded extension on the shaft but my god did it move air! Fear of parts flying made me shut it down before anything left the chat lol. My dad yelled down the stairs (my shop was in one corner of the basement) what was that noise and vibration he felt shaking the house!
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thanks for sharing the scary video with us
I'm just wondering how old are you ?
@kahlid-ataya, I don't know how old he is, but when he was talking about all the "vintage" motors, I realized that I must be really old because I can remember when they were new.
THAT BEAR 😂😂 NOW YOU GOT TO WATCH OUT FOR THE BEARS NOW . NICE ONE MR CARLSON. NOW GET YOUR ARSE BACK TO WORK.
This was instantly one of my favorite videos. Some education, a good story, a bear, and hummingbirds. I would love to have you as a neighbor!
So would I, but he probably would not want me as his neighbor ;)
Yes, just make sure he keeps his fans to himself...
I know exactly how you feel Paul. Back when I was a teen, My oldest brother had just gotten out of the service. He did the stupid thing of taking an electric power drill, and attaching a circular saw blade to it. that blade spun to full speed and came out of the drill imbedding itself into the wall right next to me. I was at the other end of the garage, about 25 feet away. It was a moment that terrified me and I will never forget it. you recanting this story to us viewers woke that memory up and it flashed thought my thought like lightning!
That is terrifying but it made me laugh. I was the youngest of three and was often the guinea pig when they had some hairbrained idea to try out. Being shot with bb's and flying off the hood of a car were only two of my experiences.
@@curtisroberts9137 Yes sucks being the youngest sibling
Good God! I want the drill he used! XD
You're still here making videos sharing your experiences and making us wiser. Keep em' coming!
Wild story! I would say the most serious close call I had was on the job sometime in the 80's soldering a component in to repair a circuit board. Suddenly I heard this POP! and the same instant, a solder blob appeared in the center of the right lens on my glasses. I can't even imagine the pain if that had hit my eye instead. Needless to say, since then, whether I wear glasses or not, I always wear eye protection when soldering.
You reminded me of when I was 19 (I'm 58 now) and working in a friend's basement with a box cutter on a project. I don't know how it happened because I was sure to cut down and away from myself, and I had no body parts near where I was cutting, but I still managed to slip somehow and slice into my left wrist right behind the joint towards the hand for about 3 inches. I cut through a big vein and several capillaries but luckily missed tendons. Unfortunately I was bleeding in spurts so bad and was in shock so quick I barely got to the top of the steps before I started to pass out. Fortunately my friend's brother and his mom were there and they got me to the hospital fast after some quick first aid. The wound required 14 stitches (4 internal, 10 external) and 1 pint of blood. I now have what looks like a small salamander for a scar on my wrist to remember that things can happen no matter how hard you try to avoid them.
Dang, I won't be using a box cutter in the foreseeable future
@@rogertoaster9385 I use a box cutter up to hundreds of times a day, high speed, for several years and have only dinged a finger tip a few times. I'm not recommending it, but I cut towards myself more than 50% of the time (usually opening small boxes). I hold the knife in a way that my arm or base of my wrist is first to hit my body, and never have my left hand downstream of the cut.
I've heard of a few nasty accidents using them, and I had a close call that left a slice through my jeans thigh area.
It may help that I use a safety box cutter (extra quick to pocket) but the blade is still out until I release the slide.
It's funny, typing about technique for such a basic tool, but with how common and necessary they are, like ladders, they're dangerous.
@@rogertoaster9385 Just be very, very, extra careful with them. I still to this day don't know how my wrist got in the way of that blade.
Being a small child (under 6) i attempted to disassemble a wire steered toy car with scissors. Made a gaping wound between my left hand thumb and index finger. Not much blood, looked white in inside. Decades after, 3cm scar reminds of the blunder.
Holy shit😲
Working on a high powered fan conversion for my car, replacing the mechanical fan and clutch. Your tale is sobering. Ive taken extra care, while this fan is hardened plastic the blades are sickle shaped and sharp, would lop off a finger in an instant. Thanks for the story.
No wonder you got so many FANS!!!
Awesome as Always...Really enjoy this Thankyou..
I think the short lesson is that the most dangerous risks you take are the risks you aren't even aware you are taking. If you don't fully understand the design theory and physical construction of something being worked on, you could be taking your life into your own hands by tampering with it. Anything involving electricity, chemistry or heavy / fast moving objects is not a suitable domain for real-life field validation of the Dunning-Krueger Effect. The average person understands far LESS about the average topic than they think.
My father told me once that his brother had put a grinding stone on a vacuum cleaner motor!
My father did stop it and said to him that when this stone does come off, it flies through the roof! Thanks for your story.
Jeez! That'd be a rocket if it broke off!
Yeesh. Youre supposed to use a washing machine motor (likely only lapidarists will get that)
Yes, but we all did stupid things when were young 😀😀😀
Ha! I have a friend living in the north Georgia mountains who gets backyard bears all the time! Two rules: leave them ALONE and NEVER feed them. Glad you didn't get brained by that fan, Mr. C. When I was a kid my father and I had unloaded the back of his old Ford pickup and were standing next to the front driver's side. The engine was just idling. Out of the blue something went BANG! and we didn't know what it was. I looked at the hood of the old truck and it had thrown one fan blade up and out completely through the hood not 2 feet from our heads. It left a razor sharp slot 8 inches long in the hood and we NEVER found the it. Lucky us. I think of metal fatigue sometimes while trying to sleep on airplanes...... Great little "slice of life" you shared! Glad you're ok and like I say, PREACH safety...it's a good thing to learn and practice. All the best from the Sweaty South. 73 JEFF
Thanks for sharing your story Jeff!
Your workshop is so spacious and well laid out. I'm very jealous.
I am really appreciating these saftey related stories. Real stories of accidents, near misses and the like really help to drive home the safety aspects that people seem to put off to one side way too often.
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos and share the stories to help us all appreciate the importance of being safe.
As the saying goes, "Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you"! Here's to guys who occupied our parents basements, our first labs and surviving uneducated mistakes. We would dump all our completed chemical experiments into old two liter bottles (the nice ones with black plastic bottoms) of which one of them my friend and I called the "stink bomb" as it ripened up. Later while I was away at camp it blew and I'm told was quite the scene! Paybacks for sending my befriended stray to a "farm in the country" perhaps... Armed with a copy of Electronics Made Simple and loads of discarded black and whites and AM tube sets, my survival was also a miracle.
That's one hungry black bear good footage yes sir
Glad you're still with us Mr Carlson!! 73
Great story and happy to see that you are fully intact.
I've never seen a motor shaft split with threads. Really odd. A good reminder about safety guards! Liked the wildlife shots!
Antique emerson fans had blades that threaded onto the rotor.
@@mattdavala3790 It was to extend the shaft for different models and a square key was supposed to be installed to keep them from coming apart.
Bump for rotation...I'll just show myself out... Really enjoy your videos Mr Carlson, they bring back many great and some rather scary times...I lived and learned.
Mr. C. Thanks for the story time. I am really enjoying these !.........Canonsburg, PA.
Thanks, like the little change of pace for a kind of break.
Awesome story, I love the wildlife bit at the end.
Oh, I get the picture! Yikes! Thanks for sharing this one.
You are still young Mr Carlson and I am a big "Fan" of all your posts !
Besides, those tidbits from your life are very much appreciated.
Another dangerous type of fan is the metal "flex fans" which were used in some cars in the 1970s and 1980s. A mechanic I know is aware of another technician who perished when an engine was being revved by an assistant, and when he was leaning over the front of the car to reach something at the top of the engine, one of the flex fan blades separated from the hub and went through him. I have never leaned in the "path" of a fan blade of a running car engine since I learned of that fatality.
Great video! Thanks for sharing, especially your backyard footage!! 🙂
Again, I love this segment and format because it teaches us who never experienced this, not to be daring. I recall working with my grandad on the antennas. He had a pivot system, and I was I charge of lowering the antennas,he was on the opposite side to give me an indication of how far we were from touch down. I learned so much from him re safety, and when I got my digit stuck in a moving chain and sprocket,I realized how stupid and neglectful I have become. Please keep the format,we can learn so much from you and others,not to repeat simple mistakes
I'm glad your still around to tell the story! Thank you for sharing more of your life.
I’m a big fan of Mr. Carlson. Sometimes I enjoy the videos so much, I can bearly contain myself.
Wow and I love the bear in the tree. It seems very happy munching your foliage. And the humming birds are amazing
I love these stories. Keep 'em coming. I have a story for you. In my teens I was a passenger in a car. I was sitting in front passenger seat. No seatbelt. Really dumb. In a left turn we went off a 35 foot drop down towards sea while the car was tumbling around on it's voyage down the 35 foot drop. On it's way the roof on my side was pushed in one feet while in the same time the sentrifugal force of the roll pushed my upper body against the lap of the driver. The hit smashed my shoulder bad , but not critical and we landed on the wheels. If my movement had been restricted of any sort , my neck may have taken the hit with severe injuries. In this case the lack of seatbelts may have saved my life.
Oh man! What a story. I would keep the blade around also just to remind me of how fortunate i am to still be here. Great story and thanks for sharing it with us.
I love these safety talks with so many close calls in my own life.
Talking of spring lost a valve spring from a cylinder head of a car which went a couple of houses away past my head.
Really enjoying this little series. This kind of knowledge is invaluable. Of course most lessons are learned firsthand, but it's always good to be reminded of the little things we often overlook. My biggest lesson was a jack failing within a second of getting out from underneath a car and eventually losing a few friends to the same mistake.
Glad you're here with us! My most dangerous situations were unknown dangers created by others. You really gotta be overly cautious.
Working on machines of others, I've come across so many dangerous modifications. External power sources, modification of cams, contactors, and even ladder logic from sub par repairs. Half the time it was the customer themselves, but they'll send you in without telling you the stuff they "thought might help".
Anyway, I mostly stick to the software world nowadays, but your videos really take me back to working on CNC and industrial machines.
Isn't it always concerning we you hear a CNC owner talk about modifying the parameters or the ladder?! It's bad enough to see their wonderful wiring updates...
Yep enjoyed video like you got a few story's my self and as always be blessed Mr Carlson and everyone
Great collection Mr Carlson sir and nice video 😊
Good morning Paul! Really enjoying these stories that you're sharing with us. I'm finding we have more in common than I thought. First engine I started playing with was when I was 9 years old, was a three horsepower Tecumseh engine on my go-kart. It was after a 4-H course put on by my neighbor who owned and operated a small service station next door. Go-karts dirt bikes, you name it. I really think it's a great idea that you focus in on safety in each case and provide some insight. Great video!
Thank you.
I am 76 and still do idiot things. Less of them now.
I watch how to videos and safety videos. Eliminates much foolishness.
Thanks again.
I am a simple man, I saw a fan, I clicked immediately!
I appreciate your repair tutorials as well as anecdotes such as this. Please keep it up.
I do have to question how many old Tek scopes any one person needs however... :)
Scary fan. Nice nature shot.
When the SHOP hits the FAN ??? Glad you still have all your original parts Paul. A somewhat similar event almost cost me some skin. I used to own a 66 Chevy "mid-engine " van which had a removable engine cover between the front seats. One time when my sister was riding with me, she sometimes would sit on the engine cover if I had another passenger in the right seat. On one drive, a blade from the motor cooling fan sheared off the shaft and sliced through the side of the metal engine cover, cutting some of the wiring harness and stalling the motor. Since the van came to a halt, I found the broken blade under my driver seat, leaving an eight inch long tear that could have easily caused severe bodily damage . Talk about a butt puckering close call. We try to be safe, but sometimes the FAN has other plans.
Really glad that fan episode didn't go anywhere near as badly as it could have. Reminded me of something that happened a long time ago. I was at my local pub late in the morning and the place had some fans mounted on the ceiling. They had blades about two to three feet long and about six inches wide attached to central hubs hanging from the ceiling. There were only three or four people in the place and one of the owners behind the bar. I was sitting at a window table not far from below one of them. The screws holding the blades on the hub must have shaken loose and one of the blades detached from the hub and flew within a foot of my head and hit the next table with quite a bit of damage to both the blade and the table. The look on the owner's face was priceless realizing how close that was to a catastrophic event. I got very lucky.
Love these stories, keep em coming!!!
Yes I have seen that done. Right motor not available, tool room available, key way machined in, so the key will keep it from coming apart. Usually has pulley mounted on it.
Thumbs up,great video,even the simple act of disposal of airbags, makes use they are anchored down, simple 12 volts and they can fly
Airbags have their own batteries (in some cases) so they can go off even on the shelf!
Looking forward to the next episode!
I'm so glad that fan missed you. Talk about having a guardian angel.
This type of experiences are what took us to where we are today. We all need to experiment, at least in our youths, but hopefully for our entire lives. The ones who survived and told the stories scare the young ones into a little bit of sanity, yet then they tend to still add chapters to “the book of close calls”.
Dang man, Glad you are still around to tell the story. Keep these stories coming cause they are awesome
having single mother made for a very boring childhood as a boy... so many things i could've learned from a father, oh well. i suppose better now than never. cool bear!
When switching up fan blades and motors a very important spec to pay attention to is the rpm rating of the blade. After spending 50 years in the HVAC trade I have seen a lot of wrecks with fans. I have seen home owners install 800 rpm rated blades on 3600 rpm motors. Each blade will break off the hub and create three or four projectiles traveling at an extremely high rate of speed.
Yay, 20.25 times the rated tension on the blade base, on top of the higher bending forces due to torque loads sounds like fun!
Always good to spread the word of safety. If just single persons life/limb/eye... is saved it's worth a sea of complaints from reckless folks that don't care about their others.
And thanks for the wildlife (though one of them might be a bit to used to people).
I so wish we had hummingbirds here (Sweden).
Paul kinda liked the 'close' haircut the fan blade gave him, and has stuck with that style to this day :) Thanks for sharing Paul. It was an unexpected pleasure to see the local wildlife at the end. Made for a very relaxing conclusion to the video.
Relaxing!!?? Those hummingbirds are reeeal dangerous 😅
Love this series of stories, really some of the most interesting parts of our lives is our "close calls"
Great video. It would be interesting to see some photos of a younger Mr Carlson
I had a similar experience as a teenager working in a welding shop. I learned how to stick weld and how to wire feed weld. These skills have served me well in life. Also, I started early with electricity and electronics. I was fortunate to live near a major Electronics Warehouse with counter service. I got to know the people who worked there, and they steered me toward great Electronics projects. I was 10 years old when I started hanging around the electronics Warehouse. Looking back, in terms of learning about the properties of metal and electronics, I had a very interesting late childhood and teenage years.
Glad your still with us!
A fan and a bear! We have a black bear circulating in our neighborhood as well. I have not seen it, but neighbors have and it had made the newspapers and TV news. Good story BTW. Looking forward to the car story.
Man! We are all so daring when we are young. The best thing to come out of your scary experience is that you LEARNED from it and from then on became much more aware of safety. That experience could have actually saved your life- in later years- from another lethal mistake that might have happened otherwise. So I guess, be thankful for it.
"Daring" .... 😂
Naive is the better word I think
I'd say stupid rather than daring and it certainly seems to be more of a young male thing.
Great story Paul, When you showed the fan blade I immediately knew what you were going to say. I had a similar experience when I was 11 or 12 years old. I took a smaller metal fan blade, (maybe 12 inches) like the one you showed and stuck it on a vacuum cleaner motor. It was one of those bullet shaped vacuums. Mine wasn't attached to the bench I just laid it on the concrete floor of the garage. When I plugged it in the whole thing took off like a helicopter, straight up and hit the ceiling. When it hit the ceiling, the motor came loose from the blade and dropped while the blade bounced around like yours did. Glad to hear that you didn't get hurt, I didn't either but it was one of those oh crap moments. There's still a mark on the ceiling where it hit. Thanks for sharing these stories.
Man, Mr C ! That's JUST what the doctor ordered. Very relaxing and OPPOSITE to this jacked up World. Thanks my Friend...
My pleasure!
My goodness what a great story. That could happen to just about anyone... And not much room for grace embedded within that type of error. 😬Mr. Carlson recieved such grace that day for sure.
I love these short shop-talk videos... 👍, I can't wait for the car story you talked about to get posted 🤠👌
Really enjoy your 'crazy' experience stories!
I'm sure most of us here were doing crazy / risky experiments years ago (in the 1980s and 1990s for me), so we can relate!
Yikes
I can imagine the shock of that blade flying past your face.
Funny coincidence I also collected and tinkered with what are now antique fractional horsepower induction motors.
I had Westinghouse Canada, Tamper (which I still have), Leland Electric and CGE and others up to 5 hp.
I inherited one complete exhaust fan belonging to my great grandfather circa WWII which I ran with only the front exposed. Kept a long cord so going near it wasn't necessary.
I currently have one from England I plan to build a portable room exhaust out of (and it won't be finger accessible and its not open either).
I was warned by my dad about running open fans beyond little desk fans.
Glad you escaped!
Kept your guardian angel busy😊
Haven't been that close to a bear in many years.
I like these "story time with Mr. Carlson " videos.
The more familiar I am with you and your astounding knowledge, drive and quietly tough presence (following the science and observing the laws) , the more I will absorb when you tear apart something like "an Icom R-71" down to the wingnuts. The prep work . Managing the kind of productive thinking you have is quite a skill in itself.. And quite a volume of good work. many thousand Thanks!
Who would have expected a two-piece shaft on a motor? But almost everyone who started young and enjoyed constructing neat things has to have some good stories. Here's one of mine:
I built up a H.V plate voltage power supply for some project in senior high physics class (1964) from surplus components. The primary filter cap was one of those old multi-segment electrolytic cans rated at something like 40mfd@450v if I recall correctly. Input was to a C.T transformer into a full wave bridge (5U4). Me and a bunch of guys in the lab were gathered over this thing. It did look good, if I do say so myself. Just before powering it up for the first time, some little voice whispered that I should have everyone to stand away. I am still thankful that I did.
When I hit the power switch that thing hummed for about five seconds while the filaments in the 5U4 reached operating heat at which time the filter cap cannister exploded leaving the chassis at a very high velocity, sounding like somebody fired a short barrel 12 gauge. On the way up, it contacted a fluorescent tube light fixture with its old style metal egg-crate diffuser. Whereupon it neatly embedded itself on the diffuser fins slicing the can about half way thru. We actually spent some time looking all around the lab for the can until someone looked up.
I am quite sure that severe injuries would have resulted if some of us had remained looking down on it when it launched. No caps have been used since without being tested out of circuit and no first power runs are done at full input voltage. But there was that time when I became the unknowing bleeder resistance for a pair of 872s and their oil filled capacitor bank. The experience was electrifying.
Why we are not all dead is a pure act of providence.
simply more evidence that Mr Carlson has a guardian angel.
Glad your still alive. WOW. Closest thing to that that I had happen was intentionally destroy a lawnmower engine highest of RPMs and a part of aluminum connecting rod flew out of the block at me and was stupid when young to put a iron bolt on train track to see if it would get squashed and waited for the train and heard it wiz by me like a bullet. Never did that again!
Not quite as close a call as yours but I learned my lesson with uncovered fans young as well. My dad's shop had a fan salvaged from an old outdoor AC unit we left running pretty much 24/7. One day we hear a bang followed by crashing and go out to inspect. The rivets for one of the blades had worked themselves loose over time. We found the blade embedded about 6 inches into the sheet metal wall and the now very unbalanced motor had torn itself loose and left a trail of destruction across the shop. High speed rotating objects should never be left unshielded. Period.
Thank you for sharing with us. Great video as always. I have never seen a squirrel that big!. 😀
Electronics and Nature.... nothing better 😊
I can't wait for the next shop talk, thanks for your hard work Mr. Carlson 👍
Dang, you get bears in your yard?? I always thought you were in a residential area in BC like Abbotsford or Kelowna... I didn't expect there would be bears there without going into the mountain forests... another hazard for Mr. Carlson - bears!
Great you caught the hummingbird taking a break for a sweet drink.
‼️ Wait, bear in the tree in your backyard!! Is that normal? Can’t be normal! Mind blowing. Thanks for the stories of you “exciting” youth. I think it must be the “right of passage” into adulthood. If you make, you earned it. 😊
I'm glad the Lord has continued to be there for you! I have learned so much from your videos.
@7:10 You or visitors/family. Glad everything worked out. Great channel 😊
Love the story times! You had a final destination experience. Glad it missed your head!
I remember the junior in our office equipment repair workshop on a server I asked him to get ready to teach him. He had powered it up & looked over from my desk to see him mesmerised by the strip light made it look like standing still which he moved finger forward until it hit the blade taking top off fingers.
The hospital did a great job putting it back on.
Racing cars I have been warned so much with working on cars this can happen but never expected it at work repairing office equipment.
Big lesson of strobing lights!
Ahh ... stories from Mr. C's past! more more!
Great story and cautionary tale. You must be out west with that species of Hummer.
excellent, more of 'Mr.Carlson Recollects'
Would love to hear the car story!! Old cars and electronics are my two favorite pastimes.
I'm excited to get to your class
Every time you tell one of these stories I feel luckier and luckier that you're still around. Also, I was fixing a friends nicotine-coated police scanner and also cleaned the case up so good - Wite-Out and all on the knobs, that the old guy may accuse me of buying a replacement. :) Thanks to you.
A close call, glad you weren't hurt. I've had a few, too, in and under cars, in airplanes, on bicycles and with electronic circuits in my younger days. We're all glad you lived to tell us about your misadventures, Paul, but like all sane people, let's try not to have too many more of them.
Maybe we need Mr Carlson’s other lab for Paul’s other interests :)
Thanks for sharing as usual!
High levels of daring-do in our youth because we think we are indestructible! Enjoyed your story.
HELLO MR.BEAR :D
We don't get bears much, just coyotes, deer, and the occasional bobcat. And plenty of hummingbirds! I saw one eat a very small spider right off its web a couple of days ago. I was... _not_ expecting that, but there it was and, well, there it went!
When I was in my mid teens I had two kitchen exhaust fans. I decided to make a double window fan. I mounted them on a wood box, and tried to hook them up, and ended up with a good shock, because nothing was grounded. I’m fortunate that I didn’t seriously hurt myself. And yes, it was bare blades.
Hey, Paul, thanks for sharing the scary stories! I know a lot of us were thinking you are either perfect or edit out the bloopers, 😄. You are correct - nothing is more important than safety. I'm surprised I still have all my digits looking back on some of my capers. As a friend of mine says, adrenalin is funny stuff. keep up the great videos & stay safe! Don't go poking the bear....🤭
Mr Carlsons lab you are good at restoring vintage shortwave receivers and alignment of vintage shortwave receivers my friend 😊😊
Yikes 😬!!, wow, God was watching over you that day !, thanks for sharing this in the video!
So the Tree Bears of Canada is more than just a legend.
Back in 1977 I did the same thing using a 1hp 3600 rpm motor. Thankfully it did not have a threaded extension on the shaft but my god did it move air! Fear of parts flying made me shut it down before anything left the chat lol. My dad yelled down the stairs (my shop was in one corner of the basement) what was that noise and vibration he felt shaking the house!