I did not do this but I walked into a freinds shop and seen him jump starting his car.He was holding one battery upside down,and laying it on the dead battery in his car.I had no time to stop him,but I did have time to bring him to the hospital.Never seen a battery blow up till then.Very scarey
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1978 F250 S/C Explorer 400 C6
.... anyone ever caught steel wool on fire while using a grinding wheel?
Nearly started a fire by tossing a 9 volt battery into the junk drawer which just happened to also have a pad of fine steel wool in it. Terminals must have laid across the wool. Just happened to glance at the drawer ans see smoke. Looked inside to see the piece of paper the the item were laying on smoldering brown with glowing edges.
It was a good thing I noticed it, because I was cleaning up the workbench are when it happened and was just ready to leave the shop to go to bed. Mighta burnt the whole place down!
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97 250 PSD Ex Cab Sd 4X4 ZF5 155k
Buncha low budget mods
"I tried being reasonable. I didn't like it."
I did not do this but I walked into a freinds shop and seen him jump starting his car.He was holding one battery upside down,and laying it on the dead battery in his car.I had no time to stop him,but I did have time to bring him to the hospital.Never seen a battery blow up till then.Very scarey
GREAT IDEA!
I'll be thinking of a way to safely attempt that one from a distance and I'' report my findings.
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Putting rubber to pavement with an 06' 5.4L F-150 supercab 4wd XLT. HOO-RAH!!
He had 2nd and 3rd degree burns from his shoulders to his waste line.I"ve seen people in pain before but not like that,after afew months I had to laugh at the sheer stupidity.
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1978 F250 S/C Explorer 400 C6
I've heard the sound and seen the damage of arc-welding a wrench to the battery box of a five ton and heard the crash of the PFC getting thrown backwards into a chain link fence, but not too many of the electrical mistakes. (I'm kinda lame in that department so I usually ask for help so as not to make any fatal errors.)
My dummest things have always happened on bikes. I raced bmx when I was younger.
Jumped a 26 ft. set of doubles - broke my frame, my stem, my handlebars, bent my cranks and tore myself up really nicely. Fixed my bike (took all summer) jumped them again -bent the fram, the forks, the cranks and the rims - tore myself up real good. Never did clear those doubles.
Putting on a chain, I looked away to talk to a friend, cranked my finger through the sprocket between the chain and the teeth. I learned that I could cuss in about 14 languages that day - none of them recognizable.
Jumped down a set of 5 stairs in boot camp. My ankle rolled over so that the ankle bone actually made a slapping sound on the pavement through my boot. Since it was a week before graduation, you better believe I still did the five mile motivational run and didn't miss a drill movement for graduation. Thing was swelled up like a grapefruit.
I ran across a guy tonight, while pitching horseshoes, he was limping quite a bit. Turns out he was welding with sandles on. He said that the hot slag would just not let go of his big toe.
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Not in a garage, but I was trimming my toenails one night and decided to pull out an ingrown toe nail with greasy pliers. Got it out, but it got infected and I needed surgery to remove the tumor that grew on top of my toe. Puss oozed constantly from it and it was the most pain I had ever been in. The podiatrist said he had never seen it get as bad as mine. I couldn't walk at work, I had to ride around in the motorized shopping cart all night long running a stock crew.
This didn't happen in the garage but in the parking lot where I worked at the time. I was putting a new T5 trans in my mustang by myself, not to hard it only weighs about a 100 pounds or so. Anyway I was wrestling with is and could not get the input shaft all the way in. So instead of pulling it out to take a rest I had my boss cut me a piece of wood to hold the tailshaft up so I could take my hands off of it and rest for a minute. Now just for reference I am laying underneath the trans with my knees supporting the bell housing with my knees. Anyway I propped the trans up with the stick and was taking a rest. Next thing I know the tailshaft smashs into my face and the rest of the trans falls on my chest and stomach (narrowly missing the boys). Needless to say I got out to take a break after that.
high school...a guy in my auto shop class decides to jack up his moms expidition on a lift, well he puts the arms under the running boards and gets it about 1 1/2 feet off the ground before they crumbled. man my teacher had a few choice words. that same day the kid got in 2 wrecks at one scene,and walked away with 8 tickets. stupid
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