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Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap

To: Charles Christ <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:05:08 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
I haven't worn jewlery for the 20 years I've worked in aviation maintenance. 
When I first started with United and for every annual recurrent training class 
for years, the company would show a picture of a nicely severed ring finger . 
As the story was told, the poor fellow jumped out of the cargo pit catching the 
ring on something  on the way out cleanly whacking the finger right off! Fact 
or fiction? Made a believer out of me either way. From then on no more 
jewelery. I don't want to inadvertantly forget to remove a ring or watch when I 
start work. The wife had a little heart ache in the beginning but aircraft 
mechanics make more than hambuger flippers (don't ask me how I know).  Larry 
Pitts60Bug  

Charles Christ <cfchrist@earthlink.net> wrote:my father has a scar exactly 
where a twistoflex timex band from back in the
early 60's!
similar "oops!"

chuck.
-----Original Message-----
From Gbouff1 at aol.com 
To: spridgets@autox.team.net ;
Triumphs@autox.team.net 
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:55 PM
Subject: Bonehead auto repair mishap


>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 adjustement of the throttle linkage on my TR3A.
I
>suddenly experience a very painfull sensation in my left wrist. At first,
I
>couldn't figure out what was going on as the pain was located under my
wrist
>watch band, you know, one of the flexible metal bands with the snap buckle.
>The pain was still increasing when I detected the familiear smell of flesh
>and hair burning (triggered by memories of other mishaps). Those snap
>buckles sure take a long time to unhook when you're in a panic. I finally
>removed the watch and realized that it was too hot to handle.
>
>It seems that while trying to adjust the linkage my watch band made a
>complete circuit between the metal heater-valve pipe and the battery lead
to
>the starter selenoid. It's amazing how fast 12 volts of DC current and a
few
>hundred amps will heat up a watch band. I now have second degree burns
that
>look a lot like the design of the reverse side of my watch band.
>
>Truly one for the bonehead archives. BTW, the watch still works fine.
>
>Gary Bouffard
>59 TR3A
>59



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