So, I'm in the basement back in my dad's tool room port matching my brand new pretty weiand stealth intake I got last week. My dremel got slow and I went to pep boys and bought a cheap $20 nikota rotary tool. I thought it would last for at least this intake, and it wouldn't matter if it died later, but it died after 20 mins! Pissed off now that I can't get anything done I figured maybe the contact points in the old dremel were dirty which might cause it to run slow. I got some of that electronic cleaner that you spray on sensitive electronic parts which dries fast to clean it up. I sprayed all in and around it and black dirty cleaner started to drip on the floor. I thought, "Maybe if I turn it on it will help get everything moving and cleaned off." I turned it on and POOF!! The whole thing burst into flames in my hand!!! I just about sh*t myself because 1 1/2 foot flames where coming out of all the vent holes. I waved it back and forth trying to put it out and finally dropped it on the floor with a semi-burnt hand. Looking at it trying to figure out what to do I finally stomped out the flames with a rag. I though to myself you dumb@ss! I won't do that again.. It didn't hurt anything I don't think. Anyway I cleaned it up some more and hung it up for the night. I'm not turning it on again until tomorrow in case there are any fumes... Well I guess I learned something.
79transam
That is pretty stupid.
I won't tell you about the time someone threw old crankcase oil all over the back of my house and I washed it off with gasoline which worked great until I got to the end of the house where the man door to the garage is and the water heater is just inside the door and the whole thing ignited and I couldn't decide what to do so I jumped through the wall of fire into the garage and then decided that I should be outside fighting the fire with the garden hose instead of standing in the garage watching the raging holocaust outside so I went outside through the sliding patio door in the kitchen and put out the fire just about the time the fire department arrived because of the cloud of black smoke and I had to explain what happened because you would think I was stupider than you!!
I won't tell you about the time someone threw old crankcase oil all over the back of my house and I washed it off with gasoline which worked great until I got to the end of the house where the man door to the garage is and the water heater is just inside the door and the whole thing ignited and I couldn't decide what to do so I jumped through the wall of fire into the garage and then decided that I should be outside fighting the fire with the garden hose instead of standing in the garage watching the raging holocaust outside so I went outside through the sliding patio door in the kitchen and put out the fire just about the time the fire department arrived because of the cloud of black smoke and I had to explain what happened because you would think I was stupider than you!!
Oh my god Willy's! :embarrass
That's like the time I was at a buddies patching a radiator. I was using some brake parts cleaner to remove the grime from the area I was to be working with. Well, since that end was already on the ground and was in a place where I wanted it for the solder to settle and not run, I decided to just go ahead and start heatin'er up a little with the torch. POOF, I wasn't thinking about the puddle of flammable liquid that was now on fire below the radiator! :drunk: I got it out without too much trouble, but I sure felt dumb.
The radiator turned out real nice though.
I'll bet the firemen had a good laugh at you though huh?
That's like the time I was at a buddies patching a radiator. I was using some brake parts cleaner to remove the grime from the area I was to be working with. Well, since that end was already on the ground and was in a place where I wanted it for the solder to settle and not run, I decided to just go ahead and start heatin'er up a little with the torch. POOF, I wasn't thinking about the puddle of flammable liquid that was now on fire below the radiator! :drunk: I got it out without too much trouble, but I sure felt dumb.
The radiator turned out real nice though.
I'll bet the firemen had a good laugh at you though huh?
Thanks for the laugh guys. I have done some "not so smart" things but nothing that will touch those, lol.Ok maybe one when I was young and didn't have a pair of wire cutters (to cut a cord on a lamp), I grabbed a hack saw and went to work on the cord. Yep you guessed it, it was still plugged into the wall WHAMO!! took a nice patch out of the hack saw blade (thank goodness I didn't have a pair of metal wire cutters) :sweat:
Royce
I used to work for an electrician a few years ago. We were at a house wiring up an addition. I was outside putting a twin buldb spot light on the corner of the addition. The wires were wired into an existing light switch in another room. I asked my boss if the wire was dead, and the switch turned off. He tells me "yup". So I go to trim the wire to length. BAM!!!!! Knocked me off the ladder onto my ***, and put a huge hole into my 2 day old Linesman Pliers!!!!!
The best one though was, we had to make a service call to some ladies house. She wanted us put a couple ceiling fans up and check some outlets. While my boss is hanging fans, his dad (Big C) and I were checking outlets. One of them was behind her entertainment center, it was my job to check this one because, well, Bic C was to Big!! The lady is watching us the whole time too. I stick my arm back there to plug in the outlet tester, outlet is good. Well, I notice the lady is watching my every move, so I decide to have some fun. All of a sudden, I start shaking and screaming, as if I am getting the pi$$ shocked outa me. She starts screaming, freaking out, and running around. Big C and I both hit the ground laughing and crying at the same time. Once she realized what happened, boy was she not happy!!!
Chris
The best one though was, we had to make a service call to some ladies house. She wanted us put a couple ceiling fans up and check some outlets. While my boss is hanging fans, his dad (Big C) and I were checking outlets. One of them was behind her entertainment center, it was my job to check this one because, well, Bic C was to Big!! The lady is watching us the whole time too. I stick my arm back there to plug in the outlet tester, outlet is good. Well, I notice the lady is watching my every move, so I decide to have some fun. All of a sudden, I start shaking and screaming, as if I am getting the pi$$ shocked outa me. She starts screaming, freaking out, and running around. Big C and I both hit the ground laughing and crying at the same time. Once she realized what happened, boy was she not happy!!!
Chris
We won't talk about the attempted "controlled burn" I was going to "supervise" on my 5 acre field. It was going just fine until the wind picked up...12 foot flames...raging inferno...no water...a rake...3 fire extinguishers...I won't ever do that again.
The voluteeer firemen were really nice guys though.
The voluteeer firemen were really nice guys though.
You guy's remember Stompers? For those of you who don't, They were small trucks and cars powered by single AA batteries. The fun part came in when the manufacturing was so lame some Stompers would go like hell and others would just barely go. After the popularity craze my home town had stomper truck pulls and races. Well, Since I can never leave things well enough alone, I decided I would have to increase the number of windings in the motor and run multiple 6v batteries used lantern type flash light's to get an advantage. My older brother had this idea that if more electricity was better than a light socket would have to be the ultimate. It was, For at least 5 seconds, Then the wall exploded and threw him across the room!! I still have to laugh out loud!
This happened to a friend of mine, he ran out of high speed cut
off wheels so rather than take time to get some more he picks
up wheel off a small cut off saw and found a adapter to make it fit a 22000 rpm air tool. Well you can guess what happened next,
about 75 stitches later in his arm. Lucky it wasen't his neck.
off wheels so rather than take time to get some more he picks
up wheel off a small cut off saw and found a adapter to make it fit a 22000 rpm air tool. Well you can guess what happened next,
about 75 stitches later in his arm. Lucky it wasen't his neck.
yeah air tools would be a good idea, i'll probably do most the work with a die grinder and finish with the dremel. Nice stories guys lol, now I feel only half as dumb. I mean Willy's just about took out his whole yard!imp: Electricity doesn't much like me either...but I've never been tossed across the room. This has turned into the retarded testimonials of stupid things that hotrodders have done.
imp: Electricity doesn't much like me either...but I've never been tossed across the room. This has turned into the retarded testimonials of stupid things that hotrodders have done. In my pre-automobile days, I was relegated to tinkering with my Briggs & Stratton motor, and for a 4-H project I rebuilt one of those old kick-start Maytag 2-cycle motors. Well, I had horrible luck trying to get going, it always was flooding. (come to find out it was just a weak coil). Anyway, my little brother who must have been 9 or 10 at the time was helping me with it, and after repeated floodings, I decided that I wasn't going to wait for the cylinder to clean out, and I took the plug wire off and the plug out. I kicked it a couple times, and then saw that the plug wire had gotten close enough to the exhaust pipe to spark and it had ignited the raw fuel that had drained down during the flooding sessions. I probably would have done the same thing, but luckily I didnt; instead, my little brother trying to help took a deep breath and blew as hard as he could to extinguish the small fire. Instead, the added oxygen caused a massive fireball and he consequently had neither eyebrows or eyelashes for about 2 weeks. I felt bad, but honestly, who wouldn't laugh!?!?
I had a "near-miss" with my project. I broke the cardinal rule ...don't clean parts with gasoline! I had been cleaning parts in a #10 can and it was about 25% full of gas. I had just left it on the garage floor, basically forgetting about it. Well the next day I decided to arc weld on the cracked spring towers on my 69 vette. I got everything all ready welder plugged in and turned on, just finished adjusting my welding helmet, and was ready to strike an arc. Just before I flipped my helmet down my eyes focused on a #10 can directly below where I was going to weld! ...I didn't have a fire extinguisher either in the shop.
Well I talked away from that one without a scratch, but far wiser!! ...AND I think that's the real point here. "What doesn't kill you, makes you smarter/stronger"! Or so I think ...Mark
Well I talked away from that one without a scratch, but far wiser!! ...AND I think that's the real point here. "What doesn't kill you, makes you smarter/stronger"! Or so I think ...Mark
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