Didn't really consider that a "build oops", but I feel your pain! Read on:
In the last few months, I was working on a 4" Bluetube AV Bay that has a paper stiffener inside and needed some CA in the shear pin holes. Well, I was holding the AV Bay on the outside and didn't notice the CA oozing out the holes as I saturated the inside paper. I then used my other hand to rotate the AV Bay to do another hole and didn't feel the CA all over the outside of the AV Bay at my new grasp point. Needless to say, I didn't need to grasp the AV Bay any longer as it was FULLY bonded to my thumb, index finger, and the web of skin between the two fingers!
I was out of Un-Cure, but Hobby Lobby was still open. Now, here's where it gets funny. The AV Bay was stuck to my
right hand, and my girlfriend was not home to take me to Hobby Lobby. I did have my cash and keys in my pocket, but they were in my
right pocket... Anyone that's ever tried to get something out of a right side pocket with their left hand (or vice-versa) can appreciate the comedy I was doing in my driveway trying to get to my keys
Eventually, I reached them through a modified method of getting my cash, that I'll explain further down, and was able to get in the truck. But now I had to insert the key into the ignition with my left hand and get the truck in gear - try that sometime; try to get your keys in the ignition with your left hand and then try to move the shifter from Park to Drive...... At this point I was pretty amused, but it got better when I arrived at the store.
Inside, I looked like everyone else shopping for items to purchase, but then I got to checkout. Remember my cash was inside my
right pocket and I have a 4" diameter, 8" long coupler glued to my right hand. I started to try to get to my cash just before I was with the clerk, but realized it was not going to be an easy task. After looking like I had some birth defect trying to get my left hand in my right pocket a few times, I was getting some weird looks for sure, even had a guy offer to "help" me in my pocket - no thank you sir; I'll get this one on my own!
I wasn't having much success, but then I hit on the idea that trying to massage the folded cash up my pocket might work if I use the edge of the counter. After about 30 seconds of looking like I was doing a lap dance with the counter, I realized that wasn't going to work, AND I was at a counter that was to my left, so I was facing customers in line behind me while trying to "massage" my money out of my pocket - LOL! It was a sight I'm sure. Running out of options short of having some guy I didn't know in my pocket, I started to think about the large item attached to my right hand and the edges it has on it. I started working the AV Bay against my right thigh while trying to get my left hand into my pocket. I rotated my jeans as far to the left as I could, putting my zipper about 3" to the left of where it should be, then working the AV Bay up to push my money up. Well, that put my pocket and my efforts just about over my tool, so, needless to say, I had a very amused audience by now. Also, I looked like I was working on myself for my own pleasure in line at the Christian-owned Hobby Lobby on a Saturday night, just to get some cash out of my pocket so I could go home and un-couple myself from an AV Bay.
Eventually, the combination of rubbing myself with the AV Bay in an upward direction, my jeans cranked to the left, and my left hand trying to get in the pocket worked, and I was able to reach my cash and pay for my purchase before leaving the stage. I took a bow, and offered that I might come back for a repeat performance next week, but that they shouldn't count on it... Considering that all of this happened in about a 2-minute span while in line makes me laugh about it to this day.
I had put my keys in my left pocket while I shopped, but I still had to get the keys in the ignition again and move the shifter to R then Drive. It's much easier the second time around, but still awkward to move a shifter putting your left hand through the steering wheel to be able to reach it. Yes, I made it home to start to work to remove the well-bonded AV Bay/hand combination. My girlfriend arrived home shortly after and I recounted what had happened. She laughed so hard that I thought she was going to wet her pants, but she didn't thankfully. After we stopped laughing, I continued to work on the uncure process which took no less than an hour.
It was an experience I won't soon forget, so BE CAREFUL WITH CA!
What an evening..............!
, initially it was my first level 4 build, i was excited for the build giving it looked awesome, plus a friend of mine actually bought it for our rocket club. So when I started putting it together there were some steps that required me to cut the the rocket. These cuts were small but were not explained by the instructions. I skipped the cutting all together, when i mounted the three side air frames to the rocket, and left them to glue for 4 hrs while i was at a families house, i was talking to my friend about the rocket i was building, i was perplexed as to how the recovery system was to work giving this rock is separated by a 7 inch gap that was initially a smaller rocket glued to the top portion of the rocket. I told my friend about this, he said that the 3 air frames on the side looked like they were how the ejection gasses were to travel to the bottom to the top half of the rocket. I then realized that was why the cuts were made on both main and side air frames. I quickly left the house and went back to see if the side mounts had glued completely. Thankfully they were not, and I was able to take them off and cut the small incisions in which the ejection gas was to flow through. I wonder though, if this mistake did play a role in the first explosion, i do not know but from that past experience I know to follow instructions exactly to point.
