so i'm a ******* and was being lazy. if you are welding on your firewall make sure you have no fire hazards on the other side. i rolled my carpet back it was'nt enough. think god i caught it.
yeah you shoulda seen me trying to squeeze my fat *** between the garage door and the car to get to it. i decided to pack it up for the evening.
I caught my shoes on fire a few months ago, didn't see I was standing on a piece of cardboard. Welding helmet kept me from seeing the flames, when I felt my balls getting hot (shorts)I looked down and proceeded to dance across my lawn!
Yep. Been there. And never use a lighter to "see what you are doing" while spraying undercoating from a can.
Or to look into a carb you just sprayed starter fluid in! (not me, a drunk buddy who's coil wire I'd removed ). I've been there too...I always have a wet rag around now to put out those little insulation fires. Seems like no matter how hard you try, you can't get it all off. And...thanks to the HAMB, I'm paranoid about something smoldering and igniting later...which I suppose is a good thing. Good catch Glendale. Bryan
Me too. Someone I know had their house burn down from sparks he'd thrown sharpening something on a grinder...a 1/2 hour AFTER he'd left the garage... Be careful where those sparks fly...
yeah, man; that carpet backing is crazy stuff. that **** can smolder for what seems like forever! not that I know anything about it.......
I weld outside a lot and have learned that when your legs get warm it's best to take your helment off and have a look. Your normally standing in the middle of a gr*** fire.
Not sure I'd call that a "good habit".... I've done it too... as a matter of fact, I have a permanent little dot on my leg where I adjusted a brazing rod in my hand by bumping on my leg. And, a scar around my belly ****on from a grinding fire... dumb....
i was welding the trim holes shut on the side of a 51 chevy and they must have sprayed some sort of tar or thick paint in the inside of the door cuz i looked up and the next thing i knew there was flames shooting out of the window opening! cracked the gl*** too i was pissed.
At least you were actually getting some work done on your car. But it is a good reminder to all of us that we should have a WORKING fire extinguisher in the garage/shop at all times. But especially have it handy when welding or grinding...
I'm such a genius I adjusted a tig rod in my hand by PUTTING IT IN MY MOUTH! ****, that hurt. And I burned the **** out of both corners of my mouth... Looked like a total retard for a couple weeks. But it was good punishment for being so stupid, because I had to explain to almost everyone I saw what a jack-*** I am...
Ever weld/grind with jeans that have the little white frays/hairs on the end of the pant legs? Never fails, I always end up with a hot foot! Everyone of my work pants has one leg burnt shorter than the other. ....welding in some new floor pans once and was sittin' squat legged on the car floor while welding in the new front pans......started smellin' something burning......then felt some heat on my ankle.....then OH ****!
here's a good one for ya... some of y'all have seen our "kick ***" machine turned stainless table. it's real pretty. it's also real dangerous. under that stainless skin is a big fat chunk of m.d.f. (high density particleboard) I threw the ground for the tig machine on it one day while doing multiple welds on a peice I was building-around noon. when I was closing up the shop (around 8)I dropped the doors, locked the shop up and walked by the table-and smelled smoke. where I had placed the ground, the table was smouldering-under the stainless!I pulled both vices off, took a metric ton of **** off the top of the table, and took the stainless cap off. as soon as the air hit it, it went up. (no "kaboom" but it was a cozy campfire.) dumped some water on it and hung out for about an hour. what was amazing is-the steel wasn't warm, and the air gap between the wood and the steel had to have been really tight. like less than a 32nd of an inch. suffice to say the stainless table is no longer a welding table. eight hours. creepy!
Years ago, I was outside cutting a piece of pipe when the UPS driver drove by, honked and waved wildly. Thought damn, he's awfully friendly! Went back to cutting then I felt someone(UPS driver) yank my stocking cap off my head. You guessed it the UPS driver who was so friendly, was trying to get my attention. My hat was on fire! Burned the whole top out of it and I still had not felt the heat. I still laugh about that episode.
Always wear a long sleeve shirt -- or at least a shirt. In my early teens I tried arc welding while not wearing my shirt. It was only for five or ten minutes. The sparks weren't really that bad. But the UV-arc sunburn a few hours later was surprisingly painful. .
I burned a flannel shirt right off me, caught fire while I was running a grinder. Singed my eyebrows and hair. I was a kid .. live and learn. Worst I know was a fellow down the road, years ago, decided to do a little welding on his tractor, in the hair barn. Dropped some slag in the hay & wasn't paying attention. Barely made it out alive. Lost the tractor, barn, welder, everything. At least I never did anything THAT stupid.
Grabbed a welding helmet on Friday to go welding. Welded for about 3 minutes and it wouldn't stay on my head. So I go swap it out, Shop Teacher tells me it has no gasket in the lens. So how should my eyes be? He pretty much said we'd be burned all to hell if we didn't have a gasket. But, I didn't notice much.
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