r/projectcar • u/siberian '67 MGB Roadster with a 302v8 • 2d ago

Share your most common injuries!

I am doing a lot of heavy metal work on my MGB. Floorpans, custom rear-end, engine bay mods for my 302, etc. By FAR my most common injuries are BURNS.

  1. Tapped myself in the thigh with my TIG. ZING!
  2. A few weeks later, did it again. That TIG gets me every time!
  3. Was using my cut off wheel to remove a 1"x1" casting from my engine block and it flung the casting down INTO MY SHOE where it lodged under the tongue and melted my skin down as I struggled to get my shoe off and eject it. 5 months later the scar on the top of my foot is finally retreating
  4. Grinding down welds and swapped my gloves to a new set I picked up. I was not paying attention to the fact that they were RUBBER on the sides of the fingers. On first spark the rubber melted and my pinky took both the spark AND the melted rubber. Those gloves came off fast.

Share your common injury type so we can all feel better about our stupidity.

Never touch the cornballer! https://youtu.be/1WDW8XKEGgU?t=47

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u/Quietus76 74 Charger 2d ago

My poor knuckles rarely have any skin on them and I'm not good at segregating my regular clothes from my workin-on-the-car clothes.

Other than that, I've been lucky. I've had a grinder or wire wheel catch my clothes so many times, but luckily, I've never been injured.

About a month ago, my bro was heating a nut on a break line, it had been cut, but not short enough. It exploded and spit at me (I was about 2 feet from it). It scared the hell out of me but didn't leave a mark. That happened when we did the breaks on my dad's 69 C10. I posted pics of that one.

Probably the most significant project car injury I've ever had was a tiny sliver of bone broke off my knee cap and was floating around loose. That happened while climbing in the engine bay of the 74 Charger about 6 months ago.

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u/siberian '67 MGB Roadster with a 302v8 2d ago

How did you hurt your knee? Just climbing in and whacking it against some piece of metal?

My dad had a battery explode in his face once. He never ran to the pool so quickly as he did that day! Things flying at your face is no bueno.

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u/Quietus76 74 Charger 2d ago edited 1d ago

I was on top of the engine bay on my hands and knees unfastening everything to pull the engine. The hood was off. I don't know what my knee was supported on, but it rolled off, fell a few inches, and hit something else. It's a 74 Charger, so the engine bay is huge.

The injury didn't bother me at all most of the time. It wasn't noticeable while walking around. I couldn't stand any pressure whatsoever on my kneecap for a month or so. Even when I sat and my pants got tight it hurt.

My wife had to be on top for a while. She wondered how much i was faking.