I just did some "baking" the other day! I sprayed the manifolds for the Plymouth at 9:00 on tuesday night, just in time for the nightly 12:00AM torrential downpour. Great fun! Kissed the "less than increadible miss Judy" (she's been in a MOOD lately) to send her off to work at 9:00AM and they were happily baking and throwing off Horrible smoke and fumes less than 20 minutes later... A quick self cleaning cycle and she'll never know the difference! Right... I thought crazy **** like this only happened to me!
Woes is right,and I thought it was just me. As kids,my younger brother and I were painting models in the ba*****t in the winter and set a can of red paint on the furnace to warm it up. When it went off it nailed us both pretty good. Mom had heard it and was right there at the door when I opened it up she fainted on sight...
my supervisor was using green marking paint,put it in the box of the truck. a little while later he threw the ax in.was almost a full can.bounced around in the box of the truck and he was trying to catch it. green everywhere.
There were some awesome pics of a spray paint can that rolled under the seat of a new BMW. When the driver moved the seat back, the seat burst the can of paint. The driver reached back and moved the can..... Paint everywhere. I tried to find the pics but no luck. It was bad.
Had the stuck trigger on the paint can just last week, brand new can too. put one coat on the part waited a few minutes went to second coat and it wouldnt stop.luckily not to much of a mess was right next to trash can,aimed the spray into trash and quickly found the cans cap and put it on to contain it sat it in the trash can and put the trash can outide till it was done.
This just made my week reading this, dammit I can't stop laughing, When I was in grade school the school had a trash incinerator, I still remember the announcement to this day, Teachers please DO NOT place aresol cans in the trash, Mr Hodges nearly had a heart attack when he was burning trash due to exploding cans and has asked them to be placed in a separate container. when you are a kid ,hearing the strange janitor got scared half to death by paint cans blowing up, it doesn't get better then that
Never leave a can of fix-a-flat in the front seat in the middle of summer. That stuff got everywhere and was very hard to clean off! It etched the plexigl*** on the speedometer.
I was painting my 78 f100 and had a can of Krylon satin black sittin on the inner fenderwell and my friend comes over and wants to hear my truck run. I start it up and the can falls off into the fan and paint everywere!!! There was paint within a 70ft area!
Years ago a buddy(Rick) and I were working on his '67 Camaro. He wanted to touch up a couple of things with a spray bomb so he grabs a new can off the shelf and hits the ****on...it kinda sputters and dies...he shakes the **** out it and tries again...same thing. Rick has a pretty short fuse so the next thing I see is Rick cussin' and swearin' and he goes to pitch the rattle can out the shop door...except he missed and caught the edge of the door opening. This punctured the can and it bounced back at him rolling along the floor spraying black paint all down the side of his white car. Now Rick is yellin' aw F**K and is trying to grab the can which is now spraying him in the face, arms, legs, chest...when he stands up from beside the car he looks like buckwheat and he's got some new graphics down the side of his car. Same guy same car a few nights later...we pull into a gas station for fuel and there's a couple of guys checking us out at the next pump in an "inferior" car. Rick decides to pop the hood and check the oil, so these guys can see what he's runnin'...turns out he's actually is down a little bit on the dipstick,so he looks at me and says "Hey I got a quart in the trunk"...now this goes back a few years when the oil cans were made of cardboard and you stuck a metal spout in the top and poured it in the motor. This oil can had been rolling around in trunk for quite a while and was pretty beat up...so when Rick tries to stab the spout into it the can just kinda collapses and starts to leak...well you guessed it...he's cursing, winds up and throws the can at the gas pump...the can explodes showering him and his car in 10/30...we jump in the car, I'm laughin' my *** off, he smashes the skinny pedal to the floor, side steps the clutch and we head out of the gas station with the back tires on fire...drift out onto the street right p***ed a cop...he must have felt sorry for poor Ricky, all covered in oil with me in hysterics in the p***enger seat, because all he said was "If you can't control this car I suggest you sell it" and let him off with a warning...true story!!!
Tossed a Krylon can without a lid on the dash of my daily driver to go from the shop to home. Went around the corner too fast. Got a bright red A-pillar and windshield out of the deal.
A model car builder that I know was heating up a can of paint (not 2 bright..) in a pan of water on his stove. He got side tracked, stepped out for a few minutes and came back to a kitchen doused with hugger orange. The can shot up and put a round hole in the ceiling. The entire room had a ring of orange around it, at the stove top level. Bob
I did one of those a couple of years ago, painting some patio furniture with Ace Hardware paint. The first can went on well. The second did the stuck nozzle thing, tried to pull the nozzle off.. no good. Tossed it in the gr*** until it depleted itself. Luckily it was a nice green that blended in pretty well. Surprised it didn't kill much gr***. I was full of paint up to my elbows and wasn't wearing a shirt... got Gojo? Bob
Car show a few years back. We were sitting in the hot sun when we hear a muffled "bang" and a some activity a few cars down the line. Turned out the "Bang" came from a can of expandable sealer... you know... the stuff that sticks to everything... that had exploded in the trunk of a 53 chevy custom. This was the car's first drive / show and the owner was sealing up the spaces in the trunk and left the stuff in the back. This stuff was everywhere and spreading fast. The owner watched it for a minute or so then very calmly, with a blank look on his face... closed the trunk. Then... there was that time I pointed the can at the part and pressed the top... only to spray myself in the face. I'm sure no one else has done that !!?? Or the time we lowered a hoist onto a can of sray paint and managed to paint the 3 people standing beside the hoist chatting...
Years ago I toss a chunk of s**** metal across the room towards a trash can. Missed and hit a spraycan sitting on the shelf above it. Damn can fluttered up to the ceiling of the shop, to be honest at first I tought I'd hit a bird! Of course it covered EVERYTHING in the shop including a car I had just painted a few hours earlier, ruining the paint job. I wasn't happy, niether was my boss. Once I hit a can that had rolled down into a 1/4 panel from the trunk of a 52 Ford with a mig welder while lying under patching the inner panel. When a stray wire hit the can it burned a small hole in it, not only was the paint spraying everywhere it was burning as it went, that caused a few "exciting" minutes! I hate spray can!
Hahaha. This thread really made me laugh. In high school when we used to spray bomb our cars, it wasn't unusual for someone to open their trunk and find a can of "touch up" paint exploded all over the inside. And I too have had a few annoying cans stuck spraying but I always just huck 'em out into the gr***...
At work i was helping a civil engineer, i noticed he had bright orange spray paint right where a guy would piss himself. Because of the location i didn't want to mention anything but gave in and said 'hey Rick, you got spray paint everywhere'. He kinda did the stupid grin and said 'yeah, i know. I put a can of marking paint in my pants front pocket, i bent over to grabbed the measureing wheel and i heard this pssst, i stood up and looked around..nothing. Bent over and heard that pssst again, and sure enough i was spraying that paint right inside my pocket and it has bled thru.' He spent the day inspecting a bridge with a flourescent orange piss-stain right in the front of his pants. P***ing cars would toot the horns and guys give the thumbsup laughing while poor Rick cussed. That was a good day.
Couple of funny stories about my Dad and spray cans . . . I was building something in our ba*****t workshop and had a can of aluminum paint and flat black (making metallic black - hey I was 10) I set the cans down with no lids in front of this cupboard we had with drawers in it. When the drawers came out, they sagged a bit, and as I and my Dad found out, the drawer he was looking was the exact same height as a spray can with the trigger depressed. Both cans somehow ended up with the orifice in the trigger pointing directly at his considerable belly. Pretty much emptied the cans before he figured out what happened. Now Dad was a welder, and he always had a t-shirt on with a ton of burn holes in it. So he pulls his shirt off to reveal about a thousand black and silver dots on his gut. It is hard to outrun your Dad while laughing that hard. Dad also liked burning stuff. He had a 55 gallon drum which he burned EVERYTHING in. One day he was telling me it's alright to burn cans, nothing will happen. Just about a minute later, you guessed it, a pinwheeling spray can goes about 50 feet in the air as we run for cover. Good times.
My father-in-law tells me stories of getting a bucket, filling it with gasoline, lighting it, then putting little fins on spray cans and putting them in the bucket nozzle down. Claims that they take off like a bottle rocket leaving a purdy con-trail of paint in its wake. Ever since he told me about that, I've always wanted to give it a try.
Try having a can fall off the workbench, hit a sharp edge on a cylinder head, get punctured, then start rolling thru the garage spewing its contents on everything! Green floors, walls, and half of one of the cars!
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