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1. Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:52:36 EDT; I'm sure most of us have been involved in some real bonehead experiences while working on our LBCs. But what just happened to me would make the Three Stooges proud. While trying to do a quick adjuste; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00389.html (8,572 bytes)
2. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:01:45 -0400; Now you have to put the watch back on, and repeat the experiment with the other hand, so you have matching burns. Otherwise people may just think you're weird. Scott Three I I wrist buckle. to few th; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00391.html (9,686 bytes)
3. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:50:42 -0400; This is not an uncommon occurrence. It's the reason that we people who work around electricity as part of our jobs don't wear watches or rings. I've actually met a person who lost a finger when he co; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00394.html (10,425 bytes)
4. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:51:28 -0500; From "George Richardson" <gprtech at frontiernet.net> There are number of ways to do that with a ring around machine shops. There is one particularly sickening thing you do to yourself with file, a l; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00405.html (9,566 bytes)
5. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:21:43 EDT; Fellow Knuckleheads, Oh, man....... rings, watches, any kind of jewelry, loose clothing, gloves, long hair, are accidents waiting to happen when working around machinery. The things I have seen......; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00407.html (8,215 bytes)
6. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:38:14 -0400; You're lucky. I recall a guy I worked with was missing a finger due to the short being his ring. Was pretty much instantaneous and bloodless. finger and ring left behind on the posts. Not pretty. ///; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00413.html (8,892 bytes)
7. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:03:10 +0100; Hi Gary I was reaching in to the engine bay on a Toledo to undo the dizzy clamp when the starter (and engine) started turning, then within a second pain, I had shorted the solenoid terminals with the; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00422.html (10,547 bytes)
8. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:09:22 +0100; Hi Rich How about the recently appointed freshly trained safety representative on our shop floor, drilling small aluminium item whilst wearing cotton cloth gloves to keep his fingers clean! He still; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00426.html (10,310 bytes)
9. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:50:50 -0600 (MDT); I guess you could say he is working short handed now? /// triumphs@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00430.html (8,395 bytes)
10. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:56:11 -0400; So far, I've usually been lucky- the time I had a hand held drill slip, and twist my shirt round the bit pointed at my stomach... The time the bungee cord slipped(at full extension) and shot me betwe; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00431.html (12,573 bytes)
11. RE: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:25:27 -0400; I think you mean light-fingered... :^P I guess you could say he is working short handed now? /// triumphs@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00432.html (8,970 bytes)
12. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:49:07 +0100; Hi Scott At college we had a nice guy but not the sharpest pencil in the case! When asked to check the spark on a test car he pulled the lead with the car running and stood as he was under the bonnet; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00433.html (10,106 bytes)
13. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:17:52 -0400; You guys are making me glad I work with software. Compiler error messages don't pull your fingers off. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@pop.rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ /// triumphs@autox.team.net mailing l; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00437.html (8,625 bytes)
14. RE: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:55:08 -0400; Clearly you never made a mistake writing a frigate fire control program... You guys are making me glad I work with software. Compiler error messages don't pull your fingers off. -- Jim Muller jimmull; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00438.html (8,970 bytes)
15. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:11:03 EDT; When I worked as as an engineer at a machine tool manufacturer, we were required to wear safety glasses and clip on ties. Most of us never got anywhere near the manufacuturing floor and the only thin; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00439.html (8,915 bytes)
16. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:33:27 -0400; Or cruise missile ECM software... Or nuclear power plant monitoring software... I shudder when I think about how tired I was when I wrote both of those. The former is still flying, with apparently no; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00440.html (9,818 bytes)
17. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:41:44 -0500; I learned my lesson about disconnecting the battery while working in the engine compartment when I short circuited a can of WD-40 while lubricating the accelerator linkage. The arc simultaneously mel; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00443.html (8,720 bytes)
18. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:19:16 -0600; I've nearly done that, and more. In my younger years, I had to work in some rather brutal independent repair shops, very little in the way of safety equipment, and for owners who expected a lot of hu; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00444.html (11,531 bytes)
19. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 05:42:23 -0700 from [4.40.144.56] at Fri, 18 Apr 2003 07:43:52 -0500; I did the watch trick a few years ago checking the oil on my TR7. It's a '76 and has the short dipstick hiding down below the carbs and manifold. Somehow I shorted out the positive terminal to the ba; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00447.html (9,265 bytes)
20. Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 07:59:18 -0700; In my first attempt at college I enrolled in electrical technology because someone told me it was a good way to make a living. Three weeks into the class the instructor called me into the his office.; /html/triumphs/2003-04/msg00449.html (8,917 bytes)

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