Why to always use the proper tools...

I was putting a spring back on in my rear drum brakes with a needle nose. It slipped and the pliers went right into my cheek. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img]

I was being cautious, knowing it might slip, and I didn't have my face anywhere near it. I guess with the speed it slipped off the spring, the needle nose must have ricocheted of the back plate or something.

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Ouch....That's gonna leave a mark. Hope you're OK. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img]
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Don't think I need stitches. Just gotta keep it loaded with Neosporin so it doesn't scar.

Trooper.... Would you please stop doing things like that... [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]
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On 2005-02-15 17:37, 89Trooper wrote:
Don't think I need stitches. Just gotta keep it loaded with Neosporin so it doesn't scar.

</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR></TD></TR></TABLE>Scars are souveniers you can't lose. Its not manly to try and hide them! Just tell everybody you got it in a knife fight. Besides chicks dig scars.
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Something similar happened to me a few years ago. I was working on a piece of farm equipment at our house. It was a disc, and I was tighting a bearing retainer plate. I had my face behind a beam wrenching on this bolt, and it slipped off the nut and somehow managed to get to my forehead and whack me hard enough to leave a huge cut. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_cry.gif[/img] It's amazing where tools can go under a heavy load like that.

I was trying to stuff a piece of 3/8" hose onto a 1/2" brass barb. The hose slipped and I split my thumb on the top of the fitting. I sat down put on a springsteen DVD and knocked back a few vodka and tonics. The pain went away but not my sense. I walked over to my buddies house to use his bench grinder a little tipsy and with my thumb bandaged. I caught my bad thumb in the bench ginder.
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You know, I have the right tool for those brakes and I got aggrivated with trying to figure it out and went back to the vice grips and screw driver![img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif[/img] Too many moving parts I guess.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
Kinda good that it was your cheek though and not your eye. Just get ya a big ear ring and stick in there. You meant to do that right? [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Deb

I was using a 3/8" Snapon ratchet one afternoon, removing an 18mm Strut Bolt on the lower half of a Voyager minivan. I was pulling my direction with both hands on the handle fingers wrapped over fingers about shoulder level, with my right knee braced up against the rotor... I'm not a body-builder like Cain appears to be, but I can lay on a bench face down and lift over 400lbs and still breathe... Anyhow, the ratchet broke as I was a pullin' to make purple veins stand out on my head... I ended up with 2 black eyes and a pair of sprained thumbs from the impact on my forehead...

Gawd I still laugh my ass off every time I think of that day, and never use Snapon ratchets anymore...

FE
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Few years back, the bro-in-law broke a key off in the ignition. Well, beings that we were not in an arms length from my tool box, we began to use his wifes home tool repair set. Fortunately, it did consist of a socket set. Unfortunately, it did not consist of a puller. Again, Unfortunately, I took it in the mouth with all my energy when the steering wheel broke loose. Kept all my teeth, but lost my good looks for about a week. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]
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