I shoved all my car related projects off to one side on my garage workbench to mix a little paint for an interior house paint project. The gallon of latex paint had been sitting on a ba*****t shelf for about 3 years and needed a good mixing. I don't own a commercial paint mixer but I gotta bench-mounted drill press! I made a rudimentery mixer attachment from a bent 3/8ths bolt and chucked it up. Just before I turned it on, I took off my favorite Jalopy Journal [tm] shirt and put it in the house. Lowered the attachment into the bottom of the paint can and turned it on at the lowest speed on the drill press. Sheeeeeeeit, this was going smooth as baby ****. The paint was mixing nicely and getting a little thinner every minute. Every once in awhile the attachment would just nick the inside wall of the can and I'd adjust accordingly until it really gave a good kick and the can spun outa my hands! The attachment rose up a bit and paint began flinging wildly outa the top of the can, all over anything that was chin height, I still didn't have the ******* can under control, so I couldn't let go of it to turn the drill press off until the entire contents were all over me and my precious garage. Good thing Mrs Rocky wasn't home to hound me about getting paint on the house carpet because I finally got the sum***** stopped and immediately stripped. I wiped myself off as good as I could with shop rags and tippy toed through the house to the shower. It was latex paint and came off pretty good with soap and water but by the time I got back to the garage, it had dried on all the surfaces..................
This afternoon, I went out there to clean up a bit and found about an inch of paint still in the can. I painted the wall and my workbench after putting all my tools away...looks a little better but the compressor will just have to look like ****.. STUPID PAINT CAN!
hahahahaha.....Good thing you took off your Jalopy Journal shirt. Oh yea, PM me you addy. I have a couple of extra Bleed stickers that I found that I can send to you. I remember that you mentioned them at the KCSP. Chris Nelson Kansas
Now I don't feel so bad about the "Power Steering Pump Incident"!! When I worked at the Ford dealer, I rebuilt a power steering pump for the first time, and the clown posing as a mechanic in the stall next to me said "Hey...make sure you test it out before you put it back on the car!" "How do I do THAT?", I asked? "Aw, just use your impact gun and a socket...fill up the reservoir and see if it pumps any fluid!" he tells me! The result was a geiser of power steering fluid blown into a fine mist and covering damn near everything in three bays! My service manager was not impressed...and the porter who got to clean it up was shaking his head...again!! (You can just flip the shaft with your fingers and shoot a blurble of power steering fluid up a couple of inches...imagine the show when I pulled the trigger on my impact gun!)
That is some funny ****, Rocky! I can't begin to count the times I've clevered myself into disastrous situations, usually in the interest of saving time -- or avoiding a trip to the auto parts/hardware store. That you took off your trick T-shirt beforehand indicates that you've been down similar paths in the past.
Good thing the Rocky Rambler is tucked away safe and sound in my Missouri shop!!!!!!!!!! Wouldn't want to ruin the nice pristeen finish it has!!!!! Dean
uhhhhhhhh, yeah Mike..I have several t-shirts with various shades of paint mistakes on 'em....Sodbuster, I sent you an e-mail with my addy...thanks!
looks like you were visited by a pack of flock of seagulls Rocky -- kind of a back to the beach look. A buddy of mine was heating up a rattle can on a hot plate in his shop -- and went off and forgot it. All of a sudden it dawned on him that he'd left the hot plate on a high -- just as the can blew. Lucky he didn't get any shrapnel -- but he had a hell of a time getting bright red the enamel off his mug.
Ok Rocky... few things to say... 1st, I'm glad you are as human as the rest of us... we all do things like this once in a while..!! 2nd, I'm glad you're cool enough to share your mishap with us and let us share in your laughter... 3rd, glad you're ok... Thanks..!! I needed that today...
I looked at a 62 Chevy today with a 3" hole in the windshield. They guy that owned it had a can of Freon sitting on the dash. It blew on a 108 degree day!!! He never found the can but the hole looks like an Armor piercing shell went through it.
Yeah, Boones........sure I was. BTW, gray latex tastes like rattlesnake, which tastes like chicken, only sour.
When I moved into my new school shop, I found an old paint shaker. Old enough that it doesn't have a lid lock on it. Now there's a great big blue stripe going up one of my walls and along the floor. oops Just think Rocky, that could have been Imron... -Bugman Jeff
I'd be laughin' my *** off if the same thing didn't happen to me. I was getting the front porch ready to lay some tile and was mixing some self-leveling super concrete in a 5 gal bucket. I did the same thing with the drill press, only difference is that I spent the money on the prescribed store-bought paddle wheel mixer tool. Got the drill set to the suggested speed, set the 5 gal bucket on the table, filled it with water and the concrete mix, and turned on the power. As soon as that mixing paddle started to turn, that **** came up outta that bucket like a ******* volcano. That **** was all over the floor, the walls, the drill press, you name it...it was covered with it. I think that there are still some splotches of it on the walls behind my workbench! I hate it when you think that you are doing the right thing and then it bites you in the ***. Hope you got all that paint off your drill press Rocky....
Paint offa the drill press? DOH! I flicked the switch on after removing about a pint of paint from it [works] but never tried moving the chuck or the bed up and down. It's gonna be a looooooooong winter,,,
Thats some funny **** when it happens to someone else!! But really all you did was get yer tools mixed up. You put in the FLINGER instead of the stirrer. Simple mistake NEXT time it will work --- Feder
[ QUOTE ] I looked at a 62 Chevy today with a 3" hole in the windshield. They guy that owned it had a can of Freon sitting on the dash. It blew on a 108 degree day!!! He never found the can but the hole looks like an Armor piercing shell went through it. [/ QUOTE ] Had a can(brand new)of battery cleaner laying on the front seat of my 68 Chevelle one summer day and came out to go home,noticed the windows were all dirty,then noticed the huge dent in the bottom of my dashboard where the can had hit!Found the can in the back seat flatter than hell!What was weird was the dash was curved where it hit and very strong at that point.Can't even imagine the force that thing developed! Glad no one was injured.I have WAY too many tales of me F##kin' up with paint.
Yeah, it's bad Steve but not as bad as the time my brother and I were trying to get a blue spray paint can to work. We were in the kitchen of a rental house and when the ice pick finally got the can to work, it wouldn't stop! The refrigerator looked so good in blue, we flamed it! Tech tip: Nothing I know will take blue enamel off white tile kitchen floors without destroying them...
Rocky...i can' tbelieve i am laughing at my computer screen...that is funny as hell...sound like the "tokyo" bug has come to visit you..for example, at stout we didn't have a vise so i held two pieces of metal...in my lap..adn then proceeded to start welding...well...wouldn't ya know it..i go tthis funny smell..took off my helmet, looked down and i had a leg of fire.. good job rock
One of my old boss's liked to go to auctions. Came back with a "mixer" for me to use. Looked like an electric shaft with a propeller on the bottom. Worked great! Had a funny emblem on the front...looked familar but I couldn't place it. Used it all summer and then decided to give the case a good cleaning. When I turned it over I discovered that it was originally used in the NUCLEAR Lab of a local hospital...something about mixing isotopes(?) whatever the hell they are! Well...my paint jobs had a great "glow" to them anyway! LoL Not too sure about the effects on me!!! Bill
perhaps the funniest thing in that WHOLE story is calliin the paint can stupid....stupid is as stupid does.....i love it!nice to know it's not just me.
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