Really Stupid Stuff

[Uncle Stretch]

I laced a new departure hub to a wheel. I took it all apart and cleaned all the bearings and regreased everything. For some reason stupidity got the best of me and I made this decision to start my 8'' heavy duty stationary buffer ....hold the two axels and stick it against the rim. Now two things happened really quick. The first was the rim went to 10,000 rpm's really fast and then the gyroscope effect took over. I was fighting to not loose control of the two small axels ,when the second thing happened. All the grease I had just put in the hub came out at one time. So now I'm blind,from the grease in my eyes, holding a gyroscope traveling at about a 100 mph. It was lucky that I never let go of it because I'm pretty sure a rim traveling at a high rate of speed will tearup things in your shop. So the moral of the story boys and girls ,is try to resist stupidity at all cost. :roll: :shock: :lol:

 

[bits n pieces]

It happens, at leasy you can see your work shop! i have a work pile with doors on it and there is no way not to trip or get hurt!

 

[user 135]

should of sat on your stool and gone for a ride :mrgreen:

 

[user 3630]

I learned yesterday not to wear loose clothing while hovering over a wire cup drill accessory. My shirt got so wrapped up I had to take it off to get it unwound. I guess I'm glad it wasnt my skin I had to unwind.

 

[user 135]

I have learned to gather up all the steel wool before turning the grinder on. That stuff burns easily and crazy.

 

[Anonymous]

AAAAAAAhahahahah. Sorry but that's funny! Was in line at my local grocery store and burst out in laughter. Everybody was looking at me like I was crazy and ol'lady starts looking around saying what.

I know I know shouldn't laugh at others misfortune but I think I got a few credits left with karma.

We all should turn on the video recorder when we do stuff and make a beeps and blunders of bike related things.

 

[thatismytruck]

Thanks for the laugh Unc. Glad you were not hurt.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Yeah this is for sure one you can laugh at. I felt so stupid and really I have no clue as to what I was thinking I was going to acomplish in the first place....maybe see how smooth my lace job was at a million rpm's Who knows. Don't try this at home. Took a while to wash all the grease out of my eyes and my wife is still trying to wash the stripe off my jeans. :roll: :shock: :shock: :shock: Kinda got this blurry vision now.

 

[thatismytruck]

Well the blurry vision thing is not funny. If it persists please see your optometrist.


although I have to say you did make me laugh again. sorry.

 

[BrigmasterA]

Dang that's funny! Sorry about the grease in your eyes, but it's still funny. Hope you can see again soon.

 

[stretch]

oh wow. i feel your pain too uncle stretch. ive done things of the same type bunch of times :roll: and i keep on doing them! :lol:

 

[maddogrider]

Oh Man maybe a pair of safty glasses are in order, oh yea i shoulda told you sooner. DOH
so was the wheel true or could you see it? :mrgreen:

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah. Sorry to hear about the well lubed eye. You should be just fine. Have had many things in my eye. Lube was one. Zert was plugged. Few good pumps and KERRRRRPOW. Line blew. Moral of that story they adjust to fit different sizes of zerts not to crank down on it to make a good seal and make sure your second hand grease gun has no cracking on the hose.

Other things to keep out of your eyes.

Acetone(never drop a full mix cup on the floor from hand and watch it hit the floor)

Mixed and reduced paint
(although the metal flake did make my eye boogers look cool)

Gas. (Make sure fuel pump is off side of engine or is not primed prior to pulling out cam shaft and hard line is not pointing at your face)

Spray lubricant (make sure arrow is pointing away face when pressing down spray head).

 

[Uncle Stretch]

If I had known that something was going to happen I would have had glasses on. At least the grease is out of my eyes :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
and Maddog the thing was true and balanced too as far as I could feel. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[maddogrider]

I will tell you like my dad always told me. "It's the unexpected that will jump up and poke your eyes out son you only have 2" thats coming from a man that only had one eye. I dont where a helmet when i ride but i do where safty glasses when i spinn stuff. :wink:

 

[Uncle Stretch]

I had a friend that was trying to pick up a large brisket that he was smoking and the fork slipped out and stabbed him in the eye. He will tell you to wear safty glasses to bed.

 

[necessaryevil]

I've had a few eye incidents in my life, very scary stuff. When I was ten a neighborhood kid swung his jacket at me and the zipper cut the corner of my eye, surgery and an eye patch at 10 is not fun. I work in a machine shop that has never enforced eye protection, had a few unpleasent moments to say the least. Safety glasses are always a good idea.

 

[Ed_Straker's_Rat]

I have two completely unrelated friends, one in the UK and the other in Canada, who both thought it would be a good idea to put a .22 round in a bench vise and hit the back with a hammer. Apparently in both cases, it was the shell casing flying backwards that did the eye-damage. Both guys have one brown eye and a blueish damaged eye. I can't even begin to list the lessons to be learned here...

The only thing I learned myself is not to use a grinding wheel while sitting on the back steps with the frame resting on your lap...

 

[benz]

I love this thread, here are mine, I was about nin or ten and my mom had gone out of town to D. C for some type of conference, so she left my dad in charge. My dad is the type of guy who would just put me in the yard and tell me to come back when it got dark. Anyway, so I get the idea to build a bow and arrow set, I look around and find a good branch for the bow and get to streching, well the branch snaps soo hard and splinters, One of the splinters embeds in my eye, I freak and go running inside. My dad goes " Hey it's not dark yet" Few hours later the entire white part of my eye is blood colored. My mom was so mad at my dad when she got home.

I was smoking a brisket for labor day, and I woke up at 3:30am to start the fire, in my other post viewtopic.php?f=11&t=12688 you will understand that I have lots of wildlife in my yard, and at that time all of those little critters are up. So I start the fire, go inside to get the briskets and plop them on. I mill around for a minute and then start cleaning up the meat trays and towels I had out. So then I hear something running very quickly toward me and I just take off in a panic right into my smoker /pit. Let me tell you, I don't weigh more than that pit. Luckily I didn't hit the hot part, just the heavy part.It knocked me straight to the ground. Well whatever chased me must have boogied, beacsue I didn't see anything out there. I laughed , took and advil, went to sleep. Mystery unsolved.

 

[BrigmasterA]

I used to work at a lawnmower shop as the service manager. I always wore eye protection when sharpening blades, but somehow a molten metal ember made it's way around my eyewear. This happened on a thursday. The owners were on vacation and wouldn't be back til monday. So all weekend my eyte just kept getting more and more red and irritated. Monday my boss tells me to go to the doctor. The doc looks at my eye, and pulls out a little dremel tool type thing to buff the metal shord outta my eye. When a hot molten piece of metal gets in your eye, apparently it melts the surface a littlebit and gets imbedded, not just resting on top. Wore an eye patch for a week or so...