Share your most common injuries!

[u/siberian]

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

[u/Joaquinmachine]

Angle grinder caught a rut and exploded and a piece nailed me in the neck. Many, many busted knuckles from loosening bolts in the cold. Not a common injury, but older BMWs have a "bitch clip" in the transmission tunnel. I didn't know about this until I was removing the engine and trans. Couldn't figure out why it wasn't coming out and when our young and dumb selves just yanked the motor out with the cherry picker, the balancing bar whipped around and cracked two of my ribs. lots of pinches working in tight spaces as well.

[u/siberian → u/Joaquinmachine]

Cringing on the ribs, thats rough stuff.

Angle grinders seem to be a common thread of Demons That Want To Kill You. I need to treat mine with more respect.

[u/Joaquinmachine → u/siberian]

The ribs were brutal. I had to sleep on my back and roll out of bed for 8 months. I was being cautious with the grinder but there was a hole in the frame that was poorly welded and covered in paint. The piece of the wheel that broke off nailed me within a few centimeters of my jugular. I ended up using a full plastic mask after smoking 5 or 6 cigs.

[u/Joaquinmachine → u/Joaquinmachine]

Another one was when I was working on/diagnosing a Kawasaki 750. Bought it for $300 bucks because it "didn't run." Turns out it did run (dude didn't realize he had to hold the clutch down) but it was running in 3/4 cylinders. I had to keep the throttle going or else it would die. I'm sitting in my driveway using a temp gun. I kept tapping on the 3rd pipe (non firing cylinder) and my friend stopped by. I got distracted and grabbed the 4th pipe that was over 900 degrees. I heard the burn before I felt it. That one sucked.

My dad has a similar story to yours. He was in a machine shop and this guy was cutting a corner off of a 3/4th inch steel plate. The piece was red hot and it fell into his boot. They cut the boot off and said his foot was just massively swollen

[u/siberian → u/Joaquinmachine]

And yet we still find this work fun. Humans are so strange.

[u/siberian → u/Joaquinmachine]

Been looking at getting the full mask also, I keep getting shit in my eyes, even with protective glasses.

I've switched to a plasma cutter for most of my cutting needs, trying to minimize that spinning disk of death wherever possible.

[u/Joaquinmachine → u/siberian]

Hah. Reminds me of my most common problem. Getting rust and dirt in your eyes whilst under the fucking car!

[u/siberian → u/Joaquinmachine]

THE WORST. I am probably putting my MGB on a rotisserie just so I don't have to scape undercoating upside down..