Almost stopped bleeding

No garage day is complete without a blood sacrifice. Managed to stab self in the upper lip with screwdriver putting a clutch cable back on the ninjette. Probably worth a couple stitches. Couple of beers will do.

A little dot will fix it right up

Ouch!!! Good thing scars add character.

I did that once, but it was with a pair of Channel Locks. Knocked myself silly.

Knew of a guy who's online handle was "Cyclops"

Apparently vice grips do not make a good brake spring tool..

No, you can't have any tools. You'll poke your eye out. A BB gun is safer. Sounds like you appeased the gods of the garage, should be good for another year?

Chicks dig scars. They also dig guys with all their teeth.

Glad you're OK, rinse your mouth with salt water a few times a day, it'll heal faster.

Dan

Wrestling with a suspension part on a lift, my buddy once punched himself square in the face. Almost took himself down, but he's tougher than he is.

Yep, superglue works well. S.O. Uses it for when she gets cuts at work, in surgery. I think it was originally developed with that use in mind.

Hope it heals quickly, it sucks having to deal with the after effects of hurting ones self in the garage. Definitely rinse it clean before closing it up.

Still have a mark on the inner part of my bicep where I set myself on fire briefly. I was using a torch to change the rear bearings on my 924. Of course I was fine at first because only the sleeve of my hoodie was on fire and not me. Like a dumbass, I had to pat it out. On my arm. With burning synthetic fibers.

Still have a blood blister on my right thumb from the same car. Don't remember what caused it, probably wrestling with the rear E-brake system.

The burn on my head from the soldering iron just peeled. Stupid MegaSquirt mods. Last time I used a soldering iron, I had hair. Still scratched my head with my hand, while looking at the schematics. The hand holding the hot soldering iron.

I have to wear a hat when under the car or I will smack my head. I don't have any hair, so no hair-radar.

Now I'm depressed, I need a beer.

Ninjaedit: just as I typed this, she walks in with grapes and a glass of wine. We're getting hitched next year :)

Once, while trying to free a siezed jam nut on a huge threaded rod on a forklift using a torch, 1 1/2" open end wrench and a cheater pipe...........it hit me right on the eye brow and bled like something right out of a war movie. Thought I was going to the ER to get stiches for sure, after I calmed down and cleaned it up, I was amazed that a cut so small could bleed so much. (summer in Philly; 100 degrees and 99% humidiity probably had something to do with it)

Weird. Working on my bike i stabbed myself in the nose with a screwdriver. My super reflexes saved me from doing much damage but i still had a good black and blue going

A few weeks ago, just as we were loading up to go to Lemons NJ, I took an angle grinder with cutoff wheel to the foot. It was a nice 1" gash that bled profusely, but fortunately seems to be only a flesh wound. I taped it up with neosporin, put some gauze over it, and proceeded to run the Lemons race, including being a guest judge, which involves a lot of standing and walking.

I scratched my left forearm... a little. I must be doing it wrong again.

Mine from today is just a nasty scrape and bruise to the shoulder. Removed the pass seat from the Conturd and ran into the corner of the door while toting said seat.

I was also checking the fluid level in the trany on the CRX. I had to use a box end wrench and beat the hell out of it with a BFH to loosen it. I was thinking there were atleast 50 differnt ways to injure or maime myself doing this. Who puts in a fill plug with an aluminium crush seal and tourques it to 1000+ ft lbs? I was sweating that I would round the head off.

cut toe from a stick that got into my sandal while I was dragging a kayak down the bank at the lake. (No car work today, but I welded some exhaust stuff yesterday.) Since today's kayaking injury doesn't count, here's this:

A few weeks ago I burned through a glove and had a drop of molten metal land on my finger nail. The next day the nail bed detatched from the finger nail and filled with blood in a littlle spot under the site of the burn. It still hasn't entirely grown out.

litterly knocked mysekf out once taking the transmission out of a f-250. according to my boss it took him 15 minutes to wake me up.

IMHO a car isn't yours until you bleed for it

aussiesmg wrote: IMHO a car isn't yours until you bleed for it

"Before any noise, heat, or speed, the blood, sweat, and oil must mingle" -B.S. Levy

aussiesmg wrote: IMHO a car isn't yours until you bleed on it

Fixed.

Um - berkeley that. I don't like getting hurt. I try to work smart...

My dad said that you need to be smart or tough.

And I'm one tough S.O.B.

i dont care how smart you work. if somehow you manage to make it through doing anything more than spark plugs of brake pads without bleeding your doing it wrong. stitches are a plus. mobil1 rubbed into the cut then wrapped in ducttape and a shop rag and you are officially a mechanic

Dad and his two brothers were all fork lift mechanics.

Dad moved up to being a database administrator (after being a fire alarm installer, a radio engineer, etc)

One of the brothers closed his shop, got his GED and Associates and became a cop.

The final one (the youngest) still does it and has had to deal with hernias, a severe drinking problem, etc.

So yeah, working smart or tough.

Somehow seemed appropriate.

(tried to embed, didn't work?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M5RgFgxhnc

Changing the struts on the Protege I had several years ago, the wrench slipped off, my face ran into the fender. I broke a tooth & left a nice tooth-sized dent in the fender.

Just over a week ago I was closing the passenger-side door on my car, I got distracted by something and didn't get my thumb out of the way in time. I had my left arm twisted upside down because I was(planning on) walking away. Oh, and the the door locked. With my left thumb firmly stuck in the door, my left arm twisted upside down, and my keys in my left pocket. I was also precariously balancing a stack of stuff in my right hand.

I did my best Houdini impersonation, managed to fetch my keys out of my left-pocket with my right hand(after dropping everything I was holding), freed myself, wrapped up my bleeding thumb, picked up my mess, and went in to see the customer I was at. Fun.

My wife has the maximum accidental death & dismemberment policy on me that was available...

petegossett wrote: My wife has the maximum accidental death & dismemberment policy on me that was available...

That's probably the one thing we all have in common