What's the stupidest thing you're ever done in your shop?

Don't ever jerk on an air hose, unless You know what it's hung up on.
nough said..........

 

Courtney Love!

 

I was just finishing a rebuild on a Chevy inline. I was exited. And it was time to install the cam and cam gear. As you know the cam gear needs to be pressed onto the cam and I dident have a shop press. So me and a buddy decided to heat the gear in the oven and use canned air to freeze the cam end. I devised a plan to run like hell from the kitchen to the garage with the hot cam gear wile he was at the vise freezing the cam. We did it and it worked well! After the high 5's I realised that I insalled the damn thing backwards!

 

Ha Ha Ha!
Been left in trunk for quite awhile after co-workers conned me into "checking for water leaks"... Damn, to be 16 again!

 

Got it down to the point where mine is only mad at me when she is awake!

 

i am not sure this is the dumbest thing i ever done..i had a long list to chose from..so i'll just tell my last one... after i built son\me nice brackets for a rack and pinion inder my 46 caddy hearse.. it all looked and worked real well until i went to move it ... i wish someone would of told me the unit was for a front steer...since mine is a rear steer.. you can imagine my shock when it turned backwards..



link to build album..
http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa84/rcplumley/46 caddy hearse project/

 

Too funny, attacked by a killer grinder and no where to run. Damn well hurts doesn't it!

 

I went to squat down to look at the side of the car... well what I didn't realize is that there was a 5 gallon bucket behind me. As I went to squat down my butt hit the bucket and it launched me head first into the side of my car. Didn't dent the car, but left a pretty good welt on my head. ..... I've done that twice now.... sigh.

 

I know a lot of other people here MUST HAVE done this before !

Whenever I give someone a ride in the coupe even if they have ridden with me before, I remind them of the low door frame and to duck when getting in or out.

PICTURE THIS - late at night it's dark out, end of a 5 hour road trip and your finally home and parked in the garage. You realize you forgot the house key and turn quick to get it out of the car.
- WHAM -
The car dropped my ass on the ground so fast I saw stars !
I hit the door frame so hard my wife says she saw the car move but couldn't help laughing so bad she pee'd herself. Had an egg on my head for three days.

I now hold my hand up near my head when I enter that car !

 

Three of us were working on an alcohol nmodified in the middle of winter. The fuel cell was removed and the shop owner told the car owner to put the fuel cell ouside. Since it was 10 below zero, he just put it next to the front door but still inside the building. Seems the draft of the woodburner was pulling a draft from beneath the front door. The draft picked up the alcohol fumes and POOF...as we laid on the floor below the modified, the prettiest blue flame danced all along the floor from the woodburner to the front door. Did I forget to mention there was only one exit door? We were lucky...burned a small 2X2' hole in the roof before the local FD got there.

 

Sunday evening... wear gloves and use clamps when working with sheet metal and a drill press...

 

Got my '46 dodge all wired up and thought I would give the ol' flathead a turn on the starter to see if it would start. It did. Ran for about 3 seconds and then stopped like it had locked up. I had the top off the 3 speed and had a towel over it to keep dirt out. The gears eat the towel and locked up the transmission and killed the engine. Took 2 hours and various tools and bad language to get it unwound off the gears. Boy did I feel like a dumb A__

 

Messing around with an OT truck and needed to move it out of the shop. My 674 International tractor was sitting close by with the 7' bush hog hooked up. I used an old logging chain and pulled the truck out of my shop and being lazy just threw the chain onto the bush hog deck. Yep..... you guessed it, I forgot to remove the chain, started the tractor and engaged the PTO to do some cutting. I could hear a noise that sounding like a helicopter but couldn't figure out what it was until something smacked my ball cap off my head and sent it flying into the air in a million pieces. Luckily the chain snagged the rear case of the PTO, snapped it in two and killed the motor. I got lucky because that chain should have taken my head off and mulched me into a thousand pieces. It snapped a 1" think casting like it was china.
I NEVER ENGAGE A PTO WITHOUT MAKING SURE EVERYTHING IS CLEAR ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!

 

Never take a piss and have any parts washer chemical left on your hands. It will make your pecker look like a water balloon for a week. Imagine having the whole hospital staff coming into your treatment room to come and take a look. It made all of the nurses giggle!

 

You know what I dont get is they think we are supposed to figure out for ourselves why they are pissed at us. They just dont understand the male mind. My reasoning is, if she wont tell me the reason, that means there ISN'T a reason. So I just chalk it up to PMS, and go on with whatever I'm doing.

 

I dont' wanna talk about it.

 

Ready the posts about fuel in the ear reminds me of when i worked for a petroleum distributer. One of are bob tail drivers comes into the yard really fast ( i am out cleeaning up) and flips the e brakle and locks up the wheels, jumps out of the truck and runs to the water hose and turns it on full blasts and proceeds to stuff it down his pants. i go over to see if he is ok and all he tells me the tank over flowed right over him from this belt down with gas. Boy that was buring.

 

Ha, how I know, or take a shower and wipe your face with your hands. I grew bhout jalokias this year, if you know what that is dont touch shit after touching them. If you do, you already know.

 

I,m old and the best ones are still happening!

 

I think I know that guy....does he only have one eye?

 

If memory serves correct, you have an Asian wife too...

 

I said on the very first page that I could probably fill this thread by myself. That horrible picture on the last page reminds me of my time to rip my self up with a drill press... I had drilled several half inch holes in several pieces of oddly shaped 3/16" stock, and just before the last one I got interupted. On the way in the door to grab the phone I set my pair of vice grips down somewhere. When the call was done, I walked back out to the drill press and naturally couldn't find the vice grips. "Well hell, it's nice sharp bit and I haven't had any problems with it twisting on any of these, I'll just risk it," thought I. Holding it firmly in my left hand and gently pulling down on the arms of the drill press all went well, until... It broke through to the other side, spun out of my left hand with a sharp irregular edge turning the palm of my hand and fingers into bloody spiral cut ham. That would be bad enough, but MR. calm, cool, and collected couldn't just press the shut off switch, no, He had to loose his temper, make a fist, and ltirally punch the emegency OFF switch thereby breaking most of the knuckles in my right hand as well! Of course, you have to have dear friends around to witness such stupidity, so ElPolako trundled my dumb ass up to the emergency room,where the staff laughed even harder as they stitched me up and taped my broken knuckles.

 

Air Compressor guy dropped off my new Saylor Beall a/c And he said look this thing is top heavy be CAREFUL trying to do it by your self it weighs 600# you can walk it on its feet back and forth BUT the hardest part is getting it off the pallet 3hours later I was calling him to come out and replace the electric boX houseing that got messed up as I dropped it getting it off the pallet DUHHH IM SORRY- ANYWAY MY WIFE SAID IT BEST WHEN SHE REMARKED THATS LIKE MESSING WITH YOUR MOTORCYCLE 5 FEET IN THE AIR and she was right once that thing started going it was to LATEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Last week, I put a new master cylinder on my truck, after I'm done I reach over and grab my 12 oz coke and take a big mouthfull.........and realize coke doesn;t come in a white bottle. Spit it out run, into the house, use mouthwash, gargle and brush my teeth..........Dot 3 brake fluid tastes terrible. Told my buddie........Now they call me Dot 3.

 

ROFLMAO! Why YES, I do! But in all honesty, I had a few domestics before I switched over to the overseas model, and I find they all suffer from this delusion.

 

I actually went to the hospital over the Jalepeno incident! Nurse laughed her ass off. Any other part of your body, a few blisters wouldn't warrant a trip to emergency, but I get kinda protective over ol' Willy. We've been in alot of dark, scary places together.

 

I pulled on my air hose to wind it back up and it was under the door of my 47 Ford ( door was off the car). When I tried to continue it knocked the door over and the glass broke. I have also fallen because of the hose not being rolled up.

 

grinding without the guard, remember safety first!!!!

 

shit dude....every time i use my grinder i think..." i should really put the guard on this"

i think i'm gonna make sure i do!

 

Damn!!!
If thear IS a bright side, it's that chicks dig scars... Sorry, I'm a glass half full kinda guy.