Never ever use your drill press to drill 2-1/2 inch holes! It is alyways better to use your Dewalt hand drill, That way when the teeth of the hole saw jam so you can dislocate your finger, as I did today. What did everyone else do that was stupid today??? Gary
Sorry for your fingers man... Can sure slow down the build... I have told my fife that "when" i get hurt building this car... it will be a trip to the ER... you just names one more thing for me to try to be carful doing... As my tag line says....
I had the wife help me chuck the Live Axle from a 66 Caddy 75 into the back of the truck. My wrist hurts like hell and she'll have a softball sized bruise on her upper arm...she tripped over the floorjack it was sittin' on and slammed her arm into the tailgate. God love her, she didn't drop it after that, and with me lifting more of it (felt like damn near 200 lbs) we finally got it in there. Hope the driveline guy's got something to get it out of there...
Yep---I did that about 15 years ago. Wanted to drill a 2" hole thru a poured concrete ba*****t wall. I went down to the rentall place and rented the biggest mother of a drill that you ever seen, and a concrete hole saw. I was doing good untill about 2/3 of the way through. The saw seized in place and the drill started to rotate. Wound my damned arms up around each other like a pair of rubber bands, and somehow my thumb got bent over backwords. Why is it that the constant "on" switch always jams on them sons a *****es when you get wound up in them like that???? Went around with thumb in a splint for the next 3 weeks.---MAXIMUM OUCH!!!!!
I've got a big 'ol aluminium 1/2" gear drive drill...old as the hills! Takes about 10 seconds for it to stop winding down when you let go the trigger! I'm frightened to death of it.
Years ago one of my buddies says to me. "Here, hold one end of each cord in your hands and if this thing starts to bind up on me pull them apart fast". He had one of those big old 1/2 inch drills that didn't know the meaning of stop when it got bound up when drilling something.
Glad you didn't lose your fingers! Most of us who have been beatin' these things into submission for years have experienced the wrong end of rotational torque at one time or another (make that MANY times for some of us). My last scare (make that almost scar) was a month ago when the mini-grinder kicked back... hard. It would have been a quick way to get rid of my excess gut had it not been for a thick jacket. Who says working in the cold doesn't have it's benefits? Hmmm. Now it's warmer I'll have to be careful or find some other way to mutilate myself. Your fingers must be close to ok now because you are typing. Or are you using a center-punch in your teeth for REAL "point and click" typing? And Brian... a splint on the thumb must have been LOTS of fun to explain to people.
OOOOHHHH!!! Thats the fun part! I can do that with my shoulder, an old high school p.e. cl*** dodgeball injury. But thats another story.
Always lay the material flat on the guide for the verticle disk sander and not at an angle! The damn 4X4 inch piece of plate I was deburring at an angle caught and ****ed in between the disk and table slamming my hand against the disk and splitting my thumb, (It will heal) Couple minutes later Bill walks over to use the sander and says "Hey who jammed this glove in here?"
Gary, do you have the movie this pic came from???? We used to watch it in shop cl***. I'd love to see it again.
my stupid weekend mistake!........ i made a mount for my p***angers side hairpin to go to my tubular frame and match flush with the body, only to realize i welded the part with the tapered hole on backwards!!!! had to make the whole part again oh well.......
Some years ago I was fabbing up the ****** mount for my Plym. Had one of those big heavy metal 1/2" drill motors. It was taking a while to drill through the frame brackets & it was getting heavy...so I hit the trigger lock on. Shortly after that the bit siezed I lost control & about that time the bit broke at about the 1/2 way point. Damn if it didn't do a 180 & started drilling through my jeans jacket right at the front of the right shoulder! Oh ****! Talk about frantic attempt to shut the damn thing off! Managed to get it off &, despite a very nasty looking break on the bit, it just left some red marks on the skin w/o breaking the surface. Needless to say, I haven't locked 1 on since.
No I wish I had the movie, The 2nd best part of shop cl*** was watching Primative Pete in The ABC's of tools Gary
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