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1 This happened right onside the door of the garage I was grinding
some welds on a tobacco frame couple years back, the grinder caught
on something a tore my right jean pants leg up pretty bad from my knee
down It didn't hurt so I thought I was ok until I pulled my jeans
up there was a little trickle of blood starting to run down my leg
It had a gash in it So I just walk away form everything got
some bandages an head to the local doc. office an nobody was home So I
went to my brother-in laws, lived 1/2 mile down the road Were we
made a bandages (Paper Towles & Duct Tape) Rapped the
towles around the leg then the duct tape around the paper towles
I finally got stitches around 9:30 that night leaned something to if
a wound is open for more than 6 hour the wont put stitches in them Have a
picture but don't know how download it
2 I was working on a weed eater one day, got it all put back together an
thought since I just reworked it I'd clean the plug That was a good one
So I puled the plug out an sprayed it with either (got a little on my
hand) an I took a lighter a burned it off as did the hair on my knuckles
3 I put a motor in a Dodge Neon but didn't put the filter on because
I didn't want to damage it while putting in Filled it with oil, check
everything an started it up an the oil light came on Thought that was
kinda strange until I scene the filter setting on the bench Had to
change the oil an this time I put the filter on
4 My brother in law(same brother in law as above) came over to make some beer can
chicken cookers if any ones ever seen one. Anyways he was about 3/4 done cutting
on a piece of pipe that a beer can could fit in with a cutting wheel on a 4 1/2'
grinder everything in the back of the shop get real quit He comes around the
corner an says which grinder did you cut yourself with. I'm kinda halfway between
laugh my a$& off an saying what'd ya do Needless to say that grinder got thrown out
the wipers in my crown vic died.
off to the parts store for a wiper motor. swap it out, and nope, still no work.
off to the dealer for the link arm on top of the motor.
pot the arm on, and cycle the wipers off -on-off 3 times to make sure everything is working properly before i put the arms on.
put the arms on, and try the wipers. the passenger side goes all the way over to the drivers side, the driver side goes completely off the window, and SNAP!!!
it is now 8PM, and i was beat from a 600 mile 17 hour day.
the next day, i tear it back apart after work.
well it ain't that bad. good news is i just put the arms on the wrong side, and the snap was the retainer clip breaking.
the bad news is the 20 cent retainer clip can not be bought on it's own, it is part of the wiper linkage assembly, and costs $327!!
the wipers are now held in place with a piece of tamper-proof wire normally used on injector pumps
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Murphy's Law was mentioned several times throughout this thread, so I thought linking folks to the origins of how it received it's name might be interesting. It was to me, hence why I googled for it in the first place.
Murphy's Law was mentioned several times throughout this thread, so I thought linking folks to the origins of how it received it's name might be interesting. It was to me, hence why I googled for it in the first place.
Apparrently not.
My bad, i interpreted it wrong. Good day
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My teenage son and his friend using an acetylene torch to cut through a balljont shaft on our 2002 F250, because the nut/shaft was spinning and he could not remove the nut.
He completes the task, and sets the knuckle down on the ground, with the balljoint bodies still press fit in the knuckle. Some seconds later .... BAM! The balljoint shaft explodes out of the balljoint body, lifting the heavy knuckle off of the ground as it does. The shaft goes through the garage door and lodges in the block wall.
The oe balljoints are sealed (no grease fitting). Apparently, the heat of the torch cooked the grease within the sealed balljoint body .... creating enough pressure that the shaft (with the round ball bottom) exploded out of the balljoint body. I would not have thought that a "sealed" balljoint was sealed that well.
I was inside the house at the time. I heard the loud noise. I thought one of the gas bottles for the torch went. I thought ... "Oh my God." A second later, I hear the boys start to laugh, and I think .... "Thank God."
The knuckle was on the ground between them. If that piece of shaft hit one of them in the head ........
Now I know that using extreme, prolonged heat on a sealed joint is a dumb thing to do.
the bad news is the 20 cent retainer clip can not be bought on it's own, it is part of the wiper linkage assembly, and costs $327!!
the wipers are now held in place with a piece of tamper-proof wire normally used on injector pumps
How about some Good news TJC ?
I "think" that clip is available through the HELP products catalog. I believe I saw it en-route to finding some other goofy little "not serviced separately" part a while back. It won't hurt to look.
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Oh, you drive a Hummer? Isn't that just a cute little thing!! My ride is an EMD E-8A. Wanna play chicken! www.lakeshorerailway.org
My dad and I put together a muzzleloader when I was younger. I went out and shot it recently, and as I was cleaning it, the ramrod broke in the bore, and I couldn't get it out. It sat like that for a year or so, and finally my dad and I decided to try and remove it. I put compressed air in the bolster screw, and he pulled on the end of the ramrod with a pliers, then bang! the ramrod flew out of the barrel with alot of force, and stuck in the wall. It looked like someone shot an arrow into the wall. It was pretty impressive.
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85 4x4 5.0L F-One Fiddy Reg Cab 3.55 With a Flatbed
^Now that its 21 years old, it can smoke and drink!^
I don't know if you would Consider this dumb or not but, not long ago i was grinding rust off the underside of my truck to prep it for paint and was trying to squeeze the last bit of life out of the wire wheel i could, apparently it had other ideas. I was workin on the bed when like 10 pieces of wire flew off of it at like Mach 3, then implanting into my thigh about 1/2", followed by a complete meltdown of the wire wheel and me as i came up with words i didnt even know existed.
__________________ It's an internet forum, get used to it. It's like having a drunk conversation with every single person in the bar minus the "I love you man". "I've seen far more abnormal and unexplainable things at Wal-Mart than I have out in the deep woods." "My drinking crew has a racing problem, or vice versa..."
I worked as a "tire mechanic" for a large over the road trucking company. I was pulling tires out of a 48' trailer and rolling them down a ramp to a driver who was stacking them up beside the trailer. Without looking I was rolling them down the ramp, just knowing that he was there to catch them. I rolled one down and started the next one just in time to hear him yelling and turned just in time to see the first one him the owners Mercedes in the front door and the second one angling towards the back door. I parked the yard truck really close to the car until I could get the shop foreman to look at it. Luckily we had a body man who worked nights.
1) When I was about 6, I snuck into the front seat of my dad's idling '70 LTD, yanked it down into gear, and fell on the go pedal. I then proceeded to drive through the garage wall into the family room where i interrupted a game of Monopoly being played by my sister and cousin.
2) A year later, I did the same thing only this time the LTD was backed up in the garage idling again as he unloaded some stuff from the trunk. Once again, I snuck into the driver's seat and did the same thing. Upon landing on the go pedal, I proceeded to complete a smoky burnout down the driveway, across the street, and into a tree.
3) When I was 16, I decided it would be a good idea to do some bodywork on my prized 1980 Pinto. I pulled and filled the dents and then proceeded to shoot the whole car with primer. Earl Scheib I am not. With no ventilation, the primer settled on everything in the garage including mom's Escort.
Funny thing is, now I am a driving instructor..........go figure.
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2007 GMC Yukon Denali
1) When I was about 6, I snuck into the front seat of my dad's idling '70 LTD, yanked it down into gear, and fell on the go pedal. I then proceeded to drive through the garage wall into the family room where i interrupted a game of Monopoly being played by my sister and cousin.
2) A year later, I did the same thing only this time the LTD was backed up in the garage idling again as he unloaded some stuff from the trunk. Once again, I snuck into the driver's seat and did the same thing. Upon landing on the go pedal, I proceeded to complete a smoky burnout down the driveway, across the street, and into a tree.
3) When I was 16, I decided it would be a good idea to do some bodywork on my prized 1980 Pinto. I pulled and filled the dents and then proceeded to shoot the whole car with primer. Earl Scheib I am not. With no ventilation, the primer settled on everything in the garage including mom's Escort.
Funny thing is, now I am a driving instructor..........go figure.
that IS a scary thought!!
i am glad you don't teach the cops in my state how to drive!!
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