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Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby bluc » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:09 pm

Just thought i would share what about 3 seconds of boiling backset looks like on skin

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This is two days after the event :angry-banghead:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby andybear » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:20 pm

Ouch. Hope you heal quickly buddy.
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby bluc » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:26 pm

:oops: :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby rumdidlydum » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:36 pm

Awww that looks like it tickled a bit :shock:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby warramungas » Fri Dec 23, 2016 11:25 pm

Holy crap. :o That looks bad. Hope you got that cleaned and dressed properly. Burns have a nasty habit of becoming infected.
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby Aussiedownunder01 » Sat Dec 24, 2016 5:46 am

Been there done that only once :oops:
I feel your pain
Keep it clean
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby bluc » Sat Dec 24, 2016 7:51 am

warramungas wrote:Holy crap. :o That looks bad. Hope you got that cleaned and dressed properly. Burns have a nasty habit of becoming infected.

Yep went to doc go r all the stuff daily dressings :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby xcvator » Sat Dec 24, 2016 8:21 am

Oh fuck Bluc :crying-blue:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby hillzabilly » Sat Dec 24, 2016 12:54 pm

Pain is the harshest teacher,and joy ya finest,good on ya for haveing the guts to help others learn without going thru the experience.A simple accident we are all capable of.I perscribe morning and evening cocktail hours to reduce pain .cheers hillzabilly ;-)
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby coffe addict » Sun Dec 25, 2016 8:09 am

Ouch... Some blokes go to extremes to get out of mowing the lawn!
I have a nice little scar on my wrist from the side of my boka earlier in the yr so I feel your pain. Hope it heals quickly.
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby wynnum1 » Sun Dec 25, 2016 5:08 pm

How did you treat the burn they say to Cool the burn under cool running water for 20 minutes—this will stop the burning process and also help ease the pain. Having easy available water is a good first aid tool for burns and the quicker the better.
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby bluc » Sun Dec 25, 2016 5:13 pm

Under 5mins was in a cool water bath, running water was to painful put some burn cream on flamigel a dressing and bandage. Next day removed dressing saw it looked like crap and went to doc. They cut away dead skin applied flamezine oinment put on a dressing and bandage.

Each day i wash it under running water dry it with sterile gauze then ointment and bandage. It is definately healing and no sign of infection. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby bluc » Sun Jan 01, 2017 8:46 pm

Thought I would update. 10 days on healing up fingers crossed it keeps healing at this rate. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby wynnum1 » Mon Jan 02, 2017 7:19 am

Are you getting treatment to try and stop scarring.
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby bluc » Mon Jan 02, 2017 9:40 am

No I have so many scars one more wont hurt :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby Plumby » Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:04 pm

bluc wrote:No I have so many scars one more wont hurt :laughing-rolling:

Not as much as the burn did anyway :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby bluc » Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:10 pm

:laughing-rolling: yea hurt like a s.o.b...
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby Hagrid » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:16 pm

So i am in the process of acquiring a new still from 5 star of course. At present i have my boiler on the ground and try and drain into a sewer vent. Seeing this burn i am thinking it might be better to pump it out. Does anyone do this ? What sort of pump would work. Is it worth trying to do.
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby wynnum1 » Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:38 am

Hagrid wrote:So i am in the process of acquiring a new still from 5 star of course. At present i have my boiler on the ground and try and drain into a sewer vent. Seeing this burn i am thinking it might be better to pump it out. Does anyone do this ? What sort of pump would work. Is it worth trying to do.

Its illegal to pour hot liquids into the sewer probably little chance of being caught but sewers have a lot of fat they call them fatbergs and if the hot liquid melts the fat and the sewer gets blocked up when the fat cools may end up with a big problem if the fat is in your sewer and not the main sewer.
If you are going to empty out filling back up with tap water will cool down the quickest and can use the hose as a siphon and water the lawn.
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Re: Hot Backset and skin contact

Postby Doubleuj » Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:07 am

wynnum1 wrote:
Hagrid wrote:So i am in the process of acquiring a new still from 5 star of course. At present i have my boiler on the ground and try and drain into a sewer vent. Seeing this burn i am thinking it might be better to pump it out. Does anyone do this ? What sort of pump would work. Is it worth trying to do.

Its illegal to pour hot liquids into the sewer probably little chance of being caught but sewers have a lot of fat they call them fatbergs and if the hot liquid melts the fat and the sewer gets blocked up when the fat cools may end up with a big problem if the fat is in your sewer and not the main sewer.
If you are going to empty out filling back up with tap water will cool down the quickest and can use the hose as a siphon and water the lawn.

Damn, I was planning on hooking my drain straight up to the sewer with an s&p trap so I could do back to back runs.
Might have to re think this.
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