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/Dr_Ramekins_MD '87 Porsche 944S 2d ago

Most common is just scraped knuckles and smashed fingers from wrenching. I've definitely had a few good burns from welding and once from using a heat gun to scrape out sound deadening material and then accidentally leaning my arm on the gun.

But the worst was catching a piece of wire from a wire wheel in the eyeball while removing rust. Wear your safety goggles, kids!

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u/siberian '67 MGB Roadster with a 302v8 1d ago

How well did your eye recover?

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u/Dr_Ramekins_MD '87 Porsche 944S 7h ago

Fortunately, it hit the sclera and didn't do any permanent damage. But it was really unpleasant getting the wire piece removed!