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SteveW:
Just wondering what sort of accidents people have had while working on their projects?
Not the usual cuts and bruises, something a bit more juicy.

I’ve had to have splinters of an MGB door skin removed from my eye.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Sometime around  1984 I replaced both rear wheel bearings on my old Opel Ascona "A" - as part of the job I had to remove the inner race that had remained attached to the half shaft. In the absence of the right puller I had to use a chisel and lump hammer. When I finally got the inner race off and amid all the grease everywhere I was aware there was a spurt of blood from my left forefinger above the top joint.

I swore a lot found some Swarfega to clean my hands - there was just a small entry would from a sharp fragment that I pulled out. I finished the job making sure I wore thick gloves on the other wheel.

Fast forward about ten months as I was getting into bed that evening I noticed a glint under the surface of the skin on my left forefinger. I pressed the glint area whereupon I saw what looked like a shiny chrome splinter.

It hurt like hell as I pressed it so I went to the bathroom to unwrap a brand new safety razor blade that I snapped in half. To numb by finger I went downstairs & out of the freezer I took a cube of ice that I held onto the forefinger.

I then cut the skin near where I had seen the glint. There was little blood so with a new ice cube I cut a little deeper - with the help of some tweezers I pulled out a curved  arrow head shaped piece of the wheel bearing. It was almost half an inch long - at its widest end it was about an eighth of an inch squarish in profile narrowing to a point like a needle end.

No hospital visit no sutures - just some Germoline and a plaster - the scar was visible for decades - now it only seems to be visible in extreme cold. What surprised me was that until that evening the massive splinter did not cause me any pain!

Athame57:

In the 1980s I had spent hours working on the top end on my CB250RS that was one of many I'd used for dispatch riding, the one in question I've put a pic off here. Well, for reasons I can't remember I couldn't start it after all that.  ::) After a while with the hell of a cuss I kicked it in the sump .....I nearly went mad with pain and I went to A&E, nothing broken but I was still 'off the road' a few days!  :'(

Johnwebley:
Gardening. Trimming a black Thorne hedge.

Got a thorn under my thumb nail.

Only way to get it was through the nail.

Used a knife to scrape away the nail till I could get the thorn out.



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Johnny4428:
I had a motorcycle battery that had been overfilled, I got a small piece of tubing and thought I could siphon some off. Needless to say battery acid does not taste very good. 🤮🤮 luckily I have a water supply in my garage.

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