Yup, there was another thread like this last fall or somthing and I told all about my er.. fun? if thats what you want to call it. Spray can+fire=month in the hospital.
I burned my coveralls with a grinder once. I was standing, hunched over this piece of metal on a 2 1/2 foot tall bench when I feel my leg getting warm. So I look, and see my coveralls on fire, getting closer to my ... well, you know. Luckily, the boys are okay.
Another time, I had a steer axle hub in the parts washer, to clean all the oil out so I could weld the bearings and pound them out. I guess I didn't let it dry long enough, because the hub caught fire. And the clean up kid tried putting it out with greasy rags.
Another time, a different guy was doing the same thing, but he was going to let the hub dry a bit longer. But a third guy wanted to do some grinding right next to him. Grinding sparks land on the wet hub, fire again. So me, watching these two trying to put it out, grabs the brake clean (just for fun) and light 'er up. Foreman comes over and says "What the hell's going on here?"
But by far, my most boneheaded was when I was replacing a brake pot. Undoing the clamp, I forgot to cage the spring. Luckily for me, I was opposite where it was going. A buddy of mine wasn't so lucky. He just finished doing 3, but on the 4th one, he forgot to cage it. That one bounced off his head. He was off for about a month, but he's back at work now.
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1. I was pulling an engine and transmission out of a Mustang II when I was 14 by myself....with a chainfall....without draining the trans. As I raised the engine, I was pushing the car back with my foot on the bumper. It was then that the fluid started dumping out of the trans, and the chain was running through it. I felt the chain get oily and start slipping through my fingers. There was no way to stop it and slowly came down crushing the fiberglass nose.
2. I was stripping a different Mustang II of parts preparing it to be towed away (a ripe 15 years old this time). I had yanked the motor and the exhaust was still on it and they couldn't tow it that way. So, I jacked the car up and slid under to start pulling the exhaust off. It's about 2:00 am and I am on my back on a creeper and I feel one of the clamps pressing against my chest. I hadn't noticed the car slowly coming down, I didn't tighten the handle enough on the jack. The exhaut had been dragging on the car so the u bolts had a nice ground angle on them. It continued down and went about 1/2 inch into my chest before the car rested on the ground. My two choices were to wait for my dad to come out for work at 6:30 or tear my flesh more. I waited.
3. I had a 61 VW beetle and the cables for the heat exchanger were broke so I had to jack it up to open them for the season (20 years old this time, 1990). I grab the jack and was pulling it over to jack up the car and came to a air hose on the floor. I was in a hurry and just lifted up the jack to go over it by the handle, but I had obviously used the handle as a breaker bar and hadn't tightend it back in yet. The handle came out cut a clean half circle right though under my bottom lip. I could stick my finger through the hole. I also loosened both teeth, and had a root canal on both recently.
4. A friend of mine was demonstrating how you could put out a cigarette in a jar of gasoline when he promptly lit the jar on fire which was bad enough. What was worse was when he panicked and kicked the jar over, engulfing the garage in flames.
5. The last one. I had an eccentric friend who used to come up with all these wild inventions. One was a homemade rocket that used compressed air and gasoline. I still drive by where that garage used to be, no joke.
HAVE you ever heard of jack stands? never trust a jack! they are for jacking-up cars and like holding the engine place,while the supports are being removed.
Last edited by Mr.Ford 351W; 06-22-2005 at 06:28 PM.
Oh sure, and I had them. Being 15 made me invincible at the time. I never claimed it was a smart move, that's why the post is "dumbest thing you've ever done in your garage"
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About a million years ago when I was in high school we (the class) were installing some copper tubing in the shop for use as air lines. One of the guys soldered a leaky joint and they sent me up the ladder to fix it. Nobody ever thought to relieve the pressure from the line before I start to heat the joint. When the solder got hot the pipe took off like a rocket! After re-doing some broken pipes and an underpants change, everything was ok.
One time I seen a guy I work with using a drill press while wearing gloves. One of his gloves got caught on the drill bit and it twisted his arm around a few times before someone could turn off the drill press. OUCH!!!
Building a work bench in my garage. Pressed my knee against a slab of plywood and tried to nail a 1x2 onto the other side and ended up driving the nail thru the wood and into my knee . Stupid me.
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where do I start?
. Stupid me. 
