It’s not a fan blade, it’s a curler. This pulls it in and wraps it around a warm post, then opens and releases the curled hair. These have been known to jam though.
So. i actually got my hair stuck in a tool once. (Dremel, always tie your hair back folks). thing is, there is the initial panic, but thats NOT HELPFUL. the best thing to do is (after the tool is immediately powered off). 1: start by trying to gently pull the hair out, grab hair near roots to stabilize the scalp, then with other hand gently pull from machine (a second person helps a lot here) if it was rotary, it will likely slowly come undone. if this fails, attack the machine *carefully*>
with a screwdriver and spuddger pry tool, to carefully disassemble it and allow safe removal of the hair. the tool will likely survive, and you have a 100% lower chance of catching an involuntary/negligent homicide charge for braining your friend with a hammer.
Lots of appliance no longer offer that option, being snap-fit together with plastic hook-tabs, the exact location of which becomes impossible to discern once the parts are snapped into place. Not saying it's always the case, but I have encountered this exact problem multiple times on plastic shell appliances in the recent decade. They WANT you to buy a new one, not fix it. So they don't make it possible for the average customer to take it apart.
Most appliances are cheap because of the snap together feature which minimizes labor cost. Nobody supports the products due to many reasons like, it’s cheaper to buy one, there are so many brands it’s impossible to stock all the parts needed, we are a disposable society to name a few.
At this point I just look for old appliances in thrift stores because fuck it, I'm not buying a new one I'm gonna have to throw away 3days after the warranty expires.
On top of that: They might simply not have any screwdrivers there, but had a hammer. I can't help but feel that all the highly upvoted "so much stupidity" comments betray imgurs deep seated misogyny.
Most places aren't far from a store that sells screwdrivers. If my hair was stuck in something like that, I would happily wait and pay for someone to go buy one. As that would be less traumatic, less risk for injury, and way less painful from having your hair pulled hard from each hammer blow.
God forbid you break the plastic tabs by hand instead of swinging a hammer 3 inches from a human beings head to obliterates the whole body of the hair appliance. Fragile plastic tabs are exactly something I could handle in a situation like this without needing a hammer.
Well, not THAT fragile. What I meant to say is the only way to open it is to break those tabs, and even then I needed 2 pliers to force it open. I imagine these hairdressers didn't have pliers.
There were four of those tunnels, one on each corner of the jammed paper shredder I tried to open. Of course, they had to be screws, right? So I tried unscrewing them with a Phillips head, then when that didn't work, I tried a flathead screwdriver. When that failed, I shined a flashlight in them to see what the problem was. Do you know what was at the bottom of those holes?
Then you get a drill bit out and drill out the rivets as the engineering gods expected. If it's a medical emergency, or mild medical panic moment like in this video, call the fire department. They respond to calls like this all the time. They know how to handle it.
I don't believe you... someone told me that about my hand when I got it stuck in a soda machine... Luckily I forgot I was holding onto the can in there and could take my hand out anytime I wanted.
IgnisInvictus
Well, it did make a nice curl.
DudeThatsRacist
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a curling iron.
Columbus43219
Polymathena
Did you try unplugging it?
Ghnhx
Mariguamar
Giger, always there with is wonderful happiness.
missojennie
raithe21
or, and hear me out, cut the hair and avoid the risk of accidentaly caving her head in.
MisterLemons
JFC put it on the ground and bash it, or is that pretty face too good to be near the floor because that tracks inversely with this level of stupidity.
Silver420Surfer
Should we protect her head before we start swinging a hammer next to it? Nah, fuck it, once we free her hair, then we'll protect her head. jfc
naat024
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JRaven419
ChristopherHallett
Just cut the hair - the strands that got sucked into the dryer are going to be completely fucked anyway.
bamblebimble
For real.I dont know that much about hair, but fan blade like that would've absolutely shredded it. Surely that isn't fixable
ventikona
It’s not a fan blade, it’s a curler. This pulls it in and wraps it around a warm post, then opens and releases the curled hair. These have been known to jam though.
bamblebimble
Aaah, then I've got no idea
Seethreepeeoh
Percussive maintenance
JackingMeHoff
Guess none of these geniuses had Swiss Army knife to disassemble the sucker with a screwdriver and/or Phillips head
BellsTheorem
So how many of these do women go through to do their whole head of hair?
SordFish909
This is satisfying a very specific set of kinks for someone, I just know it.
Bis67
Nesse salão eu não levo minha namorada
Laika341
69thStPepper
When all you've got is a hammer, find another beautician
TalachaDotNet
A booster to my baldness. Wait till we get AI hair dryers.
yopick
This scenario is precisely is what I imagined what would happen when I saw those air curlers advertised
PanPot608
Have none of these people ever heard of a screwdriver?
ThomasThundersword
So. i actually got my hair stuck in a tool once. (Dremel, always tie your hair back folks). thing is, there is the initial panic, but thats NOT HELPFUL. the best thing to do is (after the tool is immediately powered off). 1: start by trying to gently pull the hair out, grab hair near roots to stabilize the scalp, then with other hand gently pull from machine (a second person helps a lot here) if it was rotary, it will likely slowly come undone. if this fails, attack the machine *carefully*>
ThomasThundersword
with a screwdriver and spuddger pry tool, to carefully disassemble it and allow safe removal of the hair. the tool will likely survive, and you have a 100% lower chance of catching an involuntary/negligent homicide charge for braining your friend with a hammer.
SorryButMyUsernameIsUnavailable
CapttainKillJoy
When a screwdriver requires too much patience, hammer away!
Thapoopthattookapee
/idiotsofimgur.
Targe0
This could have been done way more effectively.
Like just unscrewing it.
spontaneous9
Lots of appliance no longer offer that option, being snap-fit together with plastic hook-tabs, the exact location of which becomes impossible to discern once the parts are snapped into place. Not saying it's always the case, but I have encountered this exact problem multiple times on plastic shell appliances in the recent decade. They WANT you to buy a new one, not fix it. So they don't make it possible for the average customer to take it apart.
fbutaric
Most appliances are cheap because of the snap together feature which minimizes labor cost. Nobody supports the products due to many reasons like, it’s cheaper to buy one, there are so many brands it’s impossible to stock all the parts needed, we are a disposable society to name a few.
YouRadicalizedMe
I went through 2 toaster ovens I couldn't fix. Cause the melting plastic fan inside was incased . Mother fuckers
spontaneous9
At this point I just look for old appliances in thrift stores because fuck it, I'm not buying a new one I'm gonna have to throw away 3days after the warranty expires.
ShitIstoleFrom4chan
On top of that: They might simply not have any screwdrivers there, but had a hammer. I can't help but feel that all the highly upvoted "so much stupidity" comments betray imgurs deep seated misogyny.
Targe0
Most places aren't far from a store that sells screwdrivers.
If my hair was stuck in something like that, I would happily wait and pay for someone to go buy one.
As that would be less traumatic, less risk for injury, and way less painful from having your hair pulled hard from each hammer blow.
spontaneous9
Agreed.
It's easier to jump to a conclusion than it is to assume all other possible solutions had already been exhausted.
Targe0
You can literally see a hole for a screw when they move it around.
harthram
I've tried taking hair appliances apart before. Even when there's screws, most of the housing is still held by fragile plastic tabs.
kahlas
God forbid you break the plastic tabs by hand instead of swinging a hammer 3 inches from a human beings head to obliterates the whole body of the hair appliance. Fragile plastic tabs are exactly something I could handle in a situation like this without needing a hammer.
harthram
Well, not THAT fragile. What I meant to say is the only way to open it is to break those tabs, and even then I needed 2 pliers to force it open. I imagine these hairdressers didn't have pliers.
spontaneous9
There were four of those tunnels, one on each corner of the jammed paper shredder I tried to open. Of course, they had to be screws, right? So I tried unscrewing them with a Phillips head, then when that didn't work, I tried a flathead screwdriver. When that failed, I shined a flashlight in them to see what the problem was.
Do you know what was at the bottom of those holes?
Rivets.
kahlas
Then you get a drill bit out and drill out the rivets as the engineering gods expected. If it's a medical emergency, or mild medical panic moment like in this video, call the fire department. They respond to calls like this all the time. They know how to handle it.
VodkaReindeer
Surely the fire department would mash the thing like they did in the video?
spontaneous9
Yeah I was at work, an office job, so it became the boss's problem.
Fuck it. Replace unit. Petty cash $40.
WickedSludge
Some real Neanderthal levels of problem solving. "But did you try smashing it with a hammer?"
tooomanystevesgotbanned
They couldn't even do that correctly!
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
I want to believe they didn't have the proper type of screw driver but...
prosper020
“Please risk hitting me in the back of the head with a hammer instead of just using scissors to cut some of this hair off at the machine end.”
MyCommentsUsuallyHaveTypos
A pair of scissors would have been twice as effective.
Debberz
Hammer time!
Silver420Surfer
Stop!
LrrrRulerofThePlanetOmicronPerseiVIII
Collaborate and LISTEN
killertomato842
just cut the hair... it grows back
IWasACatAllAlong
That haircut was 200 dollars, mate. No way is it getting sliced by an untrained peasant.
SirSage
Ribs grow back, too.
RyanSilver612
No they just grow into a woman
killertomato842
(No zey don't...)
Illiasa
Yeah for me this would be: "i have short hair now"
snatchingbabies
Not in time for her to be on stage in return for a lot more money than the cost of a hair device
missojennie
LrrrRulerofThePlanetOmicronPerseiVIII
That works shockingly well
vicvalour
That had no business in working out
DrR5
mikeatike
Just hammer her head, it grows back.
imightbeabearindisguise
As a semi-willfully bald person: it growing back is the annoying part.
krothstein4
That was the first thing I thought of, no way having short hair for a while could have been less traumatic than this....
killertomato842
fortunately it worked out, but I wouldn't want hair dressers swinging a hammer near my head. just cut the dang hair.
CallMeMcGyver
I don't believe you... someone told me that about my hand when I got it stuck in a soda machine... Luckily I forgot I was holding onto the can in there and could take my hand out anytime I wanted.
grandfalloon
Like a raccoon in Where the Red Fern Grows.
Bigblackdick69
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LazyBuddha
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Targe0
SprinklesMckitten
fashion show, she's paid to be in long hair
yopick
Wigs. Clip ons. Extensions.
SprinklesMckitten
is there time to match her shade and how much of a dick is the producer
Sorrontis
holy shit, I haven't seen so much stupidity since I walked a construction worksite
tooomanystevesgotbanned
I haven't seen so much stupidity since I read something about the USA two minutes ago!
curialis
Yeah, It's crazy when a guy gets his hair caught in a curler on the job site, everything comes to a halt
BubblesTheFish
And on PROM NIGHT!
CapttainKillJoy
It’s not stupid if it works
yamamasyamaha
I know a lot of people with jobs who are stupid af t
darkninja2992
Just because you CAN dig a hole with a spoon, doesn't mean you're not stupid for choosing the spoon over the shovel
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
Do you think that hair dryer still works? Stupid.
ventikona
It’s not a hair dryer.
Schoctane
Plenty of stupid things work. My coworkers for example... and me.
CapttainKillJoy
*\s
bamblebimble
You can't just say you were joking after being serious and getting down voted for it
CapttainKillJoy
I can sarcasm without the symbol if I want to and you can’t make me.
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
SprinklesMckitten
This is a fashion show or a dance production, not a single skill point in mechanical engineering
FeedTheNachoMan
The files are INSIDE the computer!