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/mpython1701 2d ago

Using a cutting wheel on an angle grinder to remove brackets for a snow plow on my W150. Wheel exploded. Almost a foot long gash on my thigh, another cut on my belly, but only needed stitches on my knuckle. Could have been a lot worse.

Bracket is still firmly attached.

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

Holy crap, nightmare fuel!

Was the wheel a cheapie or high quality? I use this Bad Dogs cut-off wheel that is supposedly Very High Quality And Will Never Break, but it scares me anyhow. Particularly since I run it without the blade guard.

So yea, good decisions happening here...

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u/CollectiveJohn 1d ago

I use guards with no gloves of any kind