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Title: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: jamie16v on 29 May 2013, 22:34
Ok for this one, you`ve got to own up. I`ll be the first to have the balls and show how i`ve been a tit..

on sunday i was making a bracket for my oil catch tank out of some angle iron. I was just about to finish where i was drilling two 4mm holes for some self tapping screws, i didnt have a vice handy so was holding my work piece with my left hand. it was at this point where the drill bit snapped and as i was being a tit and putting too much pressure on the drill, it went through my thumb nail and out the other side of my thumb..  :rolleyes: :embarrassed:
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f82/citroenaxgtr/null.jpg) (http://s45.photobucket.com/user/citroenaxgtr/media/null.jpg.html)
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f82/citroenaxgtr/null-1.jpg) (http://s45.photobucket.com/user/citroenaxgtr/media/null-1.jpg.html)
Let the abuse begin!  :grin: :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: sharki786 on 29 May 2013, 22:41
Ohhh nice. Can i lick it? :grin:
Does it hurt when you press it? Lol
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: jamie16v on 29 May 2013, 22:44
Ohhh nice. Can i lick it? :grin:
Does it hurt when you press it? Lol
you can lick it, but only once! :drool:
it hurts like mad if i bump it.. and just a little if i press on it.. :grin:
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: tweed on 30 May 2013, 10:24
Never been that stupid  :grin:
had the odd burn from exhaust or slipped off a tight nut/bolt and grazed my hand 
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: sveed1.8T on 30 May 2013, 19:06
Haha, this has got my name all over it...

Managed to slice into my leg with a Stanley knife, when trimming my rear valance :lipsrsealed:
(http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af201/sveed5/9cc39b1d.jpg)
I finished the job after a couple stiches! :laugh:
(http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af201/sveed5/cae2b05b.jpg)
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: jamie16v on 30 May 2013, 19:14
Haha, this has got my name all over it...
(http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af201/sveed5/cae2b05b.jpg)
looks like it was worth the pain...lol :cool:
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: Seanl on 30 May 2013, 19:15
Worst I did was on Sunday actually!
I feel a right plum as its such a stupid thing to do too!
Replacing parcel shelf straps on the Rado, I needed to pull the old broken bit out with a pair of long nosed pliers, whilst cutting underneath with a pair of snips.
To cut a long story short, the long nosed pliers slipped off whist I was pulling it up, with my face far too close!
Queue a trip to the eye infirmary!










(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/seanlethaby/20130530_190959_zps07f1c6cc.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/seanlethaby/media/20130530_190959_zps07f1c6cc.jpg.html)
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: jamie16v on 30 May 2013, 19:21
oooof, i hate eye injuries... looking at them make my eyes water..  :sick:
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: Seanl on 30 May 2013, 19:25
I was pretty lucky it was only the sclera that was damaged and have no impairment to my vision really. Got to put eye drops in twice a day now as there is a fair gouge out of it. Photos don't show the extent of the damage!
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: ToddyGTi on 07 June 2013, 12:52
Was working on my ABF engine whilst it was on a stand. Underneath it un doing the sump nut, cue engine coming off stand because bolts not tightened (my mate thought i done them, i thought he did) and dropping 18 inches striaght on to my right hand.

3 broken bones and a nasty rip across the top. Now just a small L shaped scar from the stitches.

what a tit!  :laugh:
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: jamie16v on 07 June 2013, 13:32
oh dear...lol... that was a clumbsy one...  :laugh:
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: danny_p on 07 June 2013, 22:27
don't think i've ever really injured myself working on my golf,   few littel burns and soem lost skin and a face full of oil.

bust few ribs working on a mates old quattro onec tho,   gearbox was a LOT heaver than i was expecting and gravity won 
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: murraymint on 07 June 2013, 22:59
My fingers after a rad change ona mk3

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Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: Sgt_Lemon on 08 June 2013, 21:37
Are you guys telling me you manage to do jobs on your cars without taking chunks out of your hands? I don't think I can change the radio station without bleeding somehow
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: droofer on 12 June 2013, 07:38
Haha, this has got my name all over it...

Managed to slice into my leg with a Stanley knife, when trimming my rear valance :lipsrsealed:
(http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af201/sveed5/9cc39b1d.jpg)
I finished the job after a couple stiches! :laugh:
(http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af201/sveed5/cae2b05b.jpg)

stole my thunder dude, i did exactly the same thing years ago, trimming a cambelt cover down on my 1,6cl, had 5 stitches in it and it didnt even bleed, just started weeping with loads of clear plasma.....
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: Chris. on 12 June 2013, 11:13
Dropped a car down onto my fingers the other day guiding a coilover into location.....lets say my fingers were between the coils and car dropped a bit quick.   painful.

Not on a golf, but was about 5mm from stabbing myself in the eye with a screwdriver trying to put caliper retaining spring onto a caliper of a megane.....lesson learnt not to try that again!
Title: Re: worst accident whilst working on your golf thread
Post by: Bellend on 12 June 2013, 11:44
Worse thing I ever had was knocking myself out. I was under a 4 post and my total knob end of a boss let it down slightly while I was picking up the gearbox (we didn't have all the fancy hoists :grin:). I got up not realizing as the ramp goes down pretty quiet and smash my head straight on the sump. Managed to not drop the box and pass out.

I come round, say "is there any blood" "nope" go check mirror then find it's pouring. Went mental, apparently he said, compressor was on I didn't hear.

He never did it again though! Probably shouldn't have been lifting the gearbox on my own either from the floor but H&S was never followed at that place. :grin: Didn't have many accidents though tbf. Only the usual cuts etc.

I also was levering something, something says gearbox but I can't see it could have been, maybe an anti roll bar or something and the big bar slipped.

I have a black bump only small on my forehead. It's fading slowly but 3 years later you can still see it. :grin: