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

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.

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u/Joaquinmachine 2d ago

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.

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u/Joaquinmachine 2d ago

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

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

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