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when I found out that the dust shield on the back side of the front brakes is a LOT sharper than it looks....

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yup... started at the tip of my thumb and cut clear into the thumb nail... oddly, there was no blood left on the dust shield, and it took a minute for the blood to start oosing out of the cut. But once it started it took a while to stop. Now that I look at the dust shields again, they REALLY don't look sharp at all... it must have been a combination of cleaning solvent, and my thumb impacting that shield with force... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

ah well, chaulk up another injury to stupidity. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
OUCH!
 
Had a few of those myself - a nice clean slice that opens up and gives you time to think, "Hmmm, not even bleeding yet". Then once it starts, it's a four band-aid affair. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
Hope you at least finished the brake job! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif
 
Hey, I did that with a cylinder head an hour ago! But I didn't bleed, just got shaved down a bit and left some skin behind.
 
The ones I hate are the little metal slivers you can"t find. The photo made my fingers hurt.
 
I don't mess around with those little cuts. I have run the ball of my thumb through the table saw and the band saw! Both times I did serious damage but didn't lose anything. The only nice thing about these hurts is all the sympathy and hugs you get from the spouse and/or girl friend.

Guinn
 
If you DON'T bleed while working on your car... you must be doing it wrong. My father used to shake a man's hand and many times, that would be followed with, "well now I know you don't work for a living. What DO you do?"

"Tape it up and get back to work" is what I always say.
 
And another thing: Getting a paper cut while removing the check, you just wrote to your mechanic, from your checkbook, is not called hurting yourself while working on the car.

Have a great week... gotta go to WORK now.
 
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If you DON'T bleed while working on your car... you must be doing it wrong.

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While the odd cut or bash is inevitable I'd have to disagree about doing it "wrong"- its when things go wrong that you get hurt.

Unless you're a masochist? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

But then, who else would have a LBC.....
 
I would rephrase that to, "If you haven't bled while working on your car, then you haven't been doing it long". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
The last good one I did wasn't on an LBC but my Honda. I was pulling a wire through/under the dash and slipped. A knuckle caught some yet to be identified brace under the dash (which happened to be razor sharp). I felt a "tingle" and looked down to see that I'd removed a large patch of skin off the side of my knuckle. It was very pretty and white but didn't bleed... at first. One of the things I've always liked about my LBCs is that they typically don't have as many sharp edges as my Japanese cars.

Sorry you found one of those sharp edges on your car!
 
Worst "bite" any of my LBC's gave me was from the razor edges onna aluminum bellhousing. Now they're all nicely chamfered, thankyewverrymuch!
 
Many times my wife has asked me if I was planning on working on the car all day. I usually answer with "I'm going to work on it till 2 PM or until I start to bleed... which ever comes first". I have to admit though, I've been making it to the quitting time more more often since I got the air tools.

David Deutsch
1973 MGB project
1973 Dodge Dart
1975 MGB
1978 MG Midget
1980 MGB
 
When I had a race shop the cost usually ended up being $100 per blood letting. We were amazed at how that held true.
 
Fortunatly,my worst was a razor blade that stopped at the bone into the end of my left middle finger while scraping the gasket off the front diff cover of an early 70s Bronco. That one made me a little light headed. (and it still sends the tingles up my neck thinking about it)
That was 8 years ago and my finger still feels funny. I think it cut the nerve ending. It took a long time before I could play guitar or banjo again.
Aside from that I've got tons of scars and whatnot from trying to take off knuckles or slicing fingers and wrists and forearms and... and.. Well you get the idea.
I did watch the guy in the bay next to me sustain 3rd degree burns when a coolant service machine adapter blew off of a radiator hose right in front of him.
NOT cool! He was off work for 6 months.
 
ouch... I don't even want to imagine how that felt. my cut seems to be one of those that looks worse than it feels. it doesn't even hurt anymore.

I think one of the most memorable burn injuries I've sustained happened while I was taking a summer Vo. Tech. class in my high school days. I signed up for a summer semester of welding. Since I was in high school the class was free and I needed something to take up time. I learned to arc weld. They had us all set up in little booths with curtains and all the prerequisite safety equipment. Anyways, I just completed a bead and was chipping off the slag. Unfortunately, a chunk of this hot slag flew off and went down into the back of my work boots and instantly burned through the cotton/poly blend socks I had on and right into my achielies tendon. You can only imagine the suprise on the instructors face and all the lookie loos that popped up when I started screaming while simultaneously flinging the curtain open and tearing at my boot laces trying to get the boot off. Dang thing left a crater in the skin for the longest time. I was lucky that it didn't burn completely through all the layers of skin. Aside from sun burns, that is the only burn I've ever had that did not blister.

In hind sight, I should have kept that thing bandaged for a while. Silly me just put socks on over the burn while it was still trying to scab up... so you can imagine what it was like trying to take my socks off at the end of the day, when it finally did make a scab... with the sock...
 
When I was rebuilding my engine, I looked down and saw bright red paint on the inside of the block. I thought, why would someone paint the inside of the block. Then I felt the pain in my finger.

Lonnie
 
I think the moment I made my father the proudest was after cutting my left index finger wide open on the air cowling of my Porsche 914 2.0. I was seventeen at the time. After covering the garage with blood and screaming every curse I knew, my pop asked me if I wanted to go get stitched up. I told him, "He** no!" I wrapped my finger in toilet paper and tape and went back to work on the car. My father looked at me with that quivering "he's a man now" look. He then told me to "quit working on that God-d****d car and come eat dinner."

Morris
 
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