Damn. This is giving me second thoughts on using a carboy.
Invest in one of those carriers, and you might want to do the Plasti-Dip too. Then you are pretty safe. Or just go the bucket route. Just be safe.
Damn. This is giving me second thoughts on using a carboy.
...it's all cleaned up and I'm all bandaged up. I'm thinking maybe I look into something to protect the carboys I have left a little better...
I'm just glad the carboy was empty - I can handle losing a pint of blood, but not 36 pints of beer.
I'm thinking of spraying my remaining carboys with "Flexi-Seal" to see if that protects them a bit better.
Better yet, spray yourself with the flex seal, dump the glass.
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I caught my thumb in a Skilsaw over thirty years ago, and cut halfway through the bone. Although it took a few years for the nerves to regenerate, I eventually got full feeling back in it - and made a liar out of the doctor who laughed and said it wasn't gonna happen. But to this day, accidentally rapping the scar against a sharp corner will drop me to my knees with tears in my eyes....I had the same experience with one of my index fingers. It may take a few years but it should get back to normal. Mine was tingly too, like half asleep. If I barely banged the side of it where the most scare tissue was it was an excruciating pain (burning). Now there is none and the feeling is back to normal.
Hope your injury turns out ok.
I also broke a glass carboy a few weeks ago. In the same fashion you did. Had just finished sanitizing and was turning to rack my just cooled wort, and outa my hands in went. I cut my palmand after wrapping with paper towels and cleaning up most of the glass, I racked to plastic fermenter. Was a pain in the ass!
I still find a little chunk of glass from every now and again in the garadge.
I replaced the 5 gal. With a 6. I would eventually love to get one of the big bubblers, but I still think I will always have atleast one big glass carboy. Just cuz. But then again, I am a hard learner. ;-)
Cheers to ur next brew!
I'm just glad the carboy was empty - I can handle losing a pint of blood, but not 36 pints of beer.
I'm thinking of spraying my remaining carboys with "Flexi-Seal" to see if that protects them a bit better.
Priorities. I'd rather lose all the beer I've ever brewed than to shed blood.
Blood replenishes itself. Skin heals. Beer doesn't grow on trees.
Reminds me of the Scotsman who bought a bottle of scotch on a foggy night, and tumbled off the path on the way home. When he awoke he felt something wet under his jacket and started praying, "oh Lord, let it be blood..."Blood replenishes itself. Skin heals. Beer doesn't grow on trees.
Hasn't anyone heard of plastic milk crates?
Full?................................
I bet they'd do it if you contact them. I'm not sure what the point would be though. Obviously your beer, wort or water will leak (gush) from the carboy cover. Do you think the glass will still get out somehow?
I have 4 of these and they are solid. If I had one suggestion it would be that the bottom handle was on both sides just like the top. Other than that, perfect for me.
I bet they'd do it if you contact them. I'm not sure what the point would be though. Obviously your beer, wort or water will leak (gush) from the carboy cover. Do you think the glass will still get out somehow?
I have 4 of these and they are solid. If I had one suggestion it would be that the bottom handle was on both sides just like the top. Other than that, perfect for me.
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