welding spatter in ear

buckly1 · Post by **buckly1** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:44 pm

I was welding under my car tonight and had some spatter jump off the car and into my ear. Another time i was sitting under a car- welding up some exhaust and had a glowing red amber burn right through my dickies and land right on my nuts. As i jumped up I banged my head on the bottom of the car. Thought you guys would get a laugh out of these stories.

Anyone else have any stories were their car kicked their a$$.

seahag · Post by **seahag** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:38 pm

Buckly1, Does that mean your nuts have a hard time hearing now? Just joking, I've had my share af hot slag in the shorts. no fun: can sympathize with you. See ya.

_INDY_ · Post by **_INDY_** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:42 pm

i was cuttin out replacement wear plates for parts of our grader and my leather cutting smock caught on fire becasue i had worn in the other day while cra;ing under the greasy leaking grader needless to say greasy leather+hot slag from oxy acet torches= one bbq'd crotch YIKES!

deano67 · Post by **deano67** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:46 pm

I recall about ten years or so, a "well known" VW drag engine builder was working on a VW race engine on the stand.... He had the case together, and two cylinders with a cylinder head bolted on. The other side (the lighter side... hint, hint), only had the rods hanging out and all of the head studs were in place. As he worked on the engine with the cylinder head up, the weight of that head and two cylinders forced the engine to quickly swing around, which in turn jammed one of the cylinder head studs right into his balls. You figure out the rest of the story. Ouch!

Bruce2 · Post by **Bruce2** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:16 am

Last spring I was hacking up an old trans case to make a jig to set up the shift forks. A hand hack saw was way too slow. The sawzall was a bit faster but hard to hold the trans case. The angle grinder was way faster than anything, but it was really dusty. As I sat there covered in mag dust it never occured to me how dangerous it was, until a spark set my leg on fire! My first reaction was to pat out the fire with my gloves, but they too were covered in dust. Lucky for me it went out on its own.
The scar is nicely healed now.

airwerks · Post by **airwerks** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:13 am

I can sympathize about the slag in the ear.... I'm in the middle of an engine swap with my samurai and had to buy a new helmet because I launched it across the shop in my frantic effort to get the little tigger out.

The worst part about that has got to be the sound it makes in your ear..... ewwwwwwww

Deathbug74 · Post by **Deathbug74** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:33 am

wasn't on the car, but welding mishaps in shop class.. cutting a metal plate with a cutting torch (wearing welding gloves and a tshirt...::roll:: ). didn't get it hot enough when i went to cut, so it splattered back all over my arms...looked like i had track marks for a week or 3. second one was during arc welding...weld spatter caught my shirt on fire; burned a 3" or so hole:shock: in the front of my shirt, but somehow didn't burn the skin underneath .

mharney · Post by **mharney** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:21 am

There was this one time, when I was sitting here reading about nut injuries on this forum, and I was eating cereal.. and I read about this slag hitting this guy's nuts, and this other guy banging his head when he jumped, and I started to laugh, and got a milk/nose backflush, and....

VW Grommet · Post by **VW Grommet** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:21 am

I guess mines pretty tame compaired ..but one time while welding w/shorts and shoes a redhot blob landed in my socks and caught fire, I'm thinking its one of those "shoo" shake the foot tiny blobs but by the time I found out whats going on (finished the weld and felt skin cooking) the flames were 2-3 inches high and nearly a 2 in diameter hole of burnt sock surrounding deeply bbq'ed flesh..that bastard took over a month to heal and looks like scar for life.

Bugzlife · Post by **Bugzlife** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:38 am

I was using a wire stripper-pliers once, and for some reason I was stripping the wire towards me, not away, and the wire stripper slipped and when right through my lip. (sometime you learn the hardway)

another time I was cutting out the pans and welding news ones them back in, well I thought I could "look away" and not use the welders mask, ha, ha. I called in sick the next day, as I could not see.

I also found out that cast aluminum parts will not bend.

buckly1 · Post by **buckly1** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:13 am

ok another one.

I was a senior in high school and working on my dads car in auto shop. Theres about 5 kids standing around watching. After I was done with the air hose i just let it go and had the spring suck it up into the real. It flopped this was and that and made some noise so naturally everyone looks up just intime for the hose to smack some flourecent lights. Luckily I had seen this happen when i was a sophmore so i knew better to look up and get glass in my eye.

john @ no dollars racing · Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:40 pm

>metal fabricator,,,full time shop exp. 15 yrs. age 38 ,bought first welder age 13,,, so that makes 25yrs welding,,true story,,, if your layin down ,lay a 2x4 between you n your work ,the sparks rollin across the floor wont get ya,,,ALLWAYS wear EARPLUGS!!!!! if your underneath somthing,,period ,,,saves you the pain i aint kiddin.....john ,,,this is the truth take it as you will,,,BELIVE ME I KNOW !!!!!!!...john.........

HotStreetVw · Post by **HotStreetVw** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:08 pm

about a month ago I was welding wtih shorts and sandles, damn hot splatter burned my leg, when i jumped up I droped the wire feeder, it landed on my bare foot. I could smell burning skin in the garage for a week.

mharney · Post by **mharney** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:43 pm

Good lord.. it's amazing some of you are still alive. LOL!

Island bugs · Post by **Island bugs** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:16 pm

mharney I nearly "died" laughing at your milk/nose backflush! wayne