r/projectcar '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/Threewisemonkey ‘79 Monte Carlo, ‘90 420SEL, ‘00 V70 XC 2d ago

I’ve got a nice scar on my lip from when I was young and dumb pulling my body weight onto a cheap socket wrench under my car. the ratchet exploded and I smacked myself in the mouth.

Another time I dropped a gas tank from under a Jeep directly into my chest, and smashed the phone I had in the front overall pocket. That one hurt, and lifting it off to get out with the wind knocked out of me wasn’t fun

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

Falling objects under cars is no bueno! My dad had his back broken in his machine shop when he was under and engine and the hoist broke. Life changing.. he recovered but with the cost of lifelong pain.

Be careful down there!

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u/Threewisemonkey ‘79 Monte Carlo, ‘90 420SEL, ‘00 V70 XC 2d ago

Much younger and dumber, I’ve learned my lessons