Don't wear shorts and sandles while grinding/cutting body panels. Legs feel like they are sunburnt this morning. Won't do that again

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

be grateful that's it. ever seen what a grinding disc can do to human flesh?

Oh yeah,

Had a few chunks out my hands/fingers over the years...luckily not too big though.............

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Cooper S Mk2
Cooper S Mk1
ex Cooper S Mk2, various Morris 1100s, 1300s, 1500s, Leyland Sherpa!

You get the old boilermakers (particularly in the northern climates of Oz) who don't have any sensation of burning on the front of their legs anymore.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

you have been around the traps a few times, you should have known that

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Dont have a MRI all the metal in skin gets draw out by the magnetic field - ouch

You know how it is - You don't intend to do anything and you start to tinker then one thing leads to another - next thing there is a grinder in your hands and you are going for it

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Yikes that's painful. The other one I might have done is rest a wire wheel on my wrist to answer my phone, I was getting bog out of a rear panel. I sh1t myself when I realised I had done it, I thought I'd sevored my tendons for sure. All good tho. The other one is MIG or stick welding wearing shorts,,, thats nasty...

I'v wire wheeled my inner thigh with a Grinder

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

Oh geeze I bet that was pleasant!!

You got pics of the damage?

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"I'm sorry, but a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part!"

and don't wear plastic stuff like trousers or fleece pullovers made from/with polyetylen or somthing. they don't like the sparks and may set you on fire easily.

don't ask how i know

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Rover 214 atm ....

You were welding in your polyethylene underwear again weren't you ....

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I was sanding a door skin off a few years ago with a brand new 24grit disc when it grabbed the door and flicked up into my left wrist. Went very deep and had to have stitches. Still feels strange now.
Also slipped with a spot weld drill bit a couple of years ago and it went straight into the fleshy part of my left thumb and hit the bone(NOW THAT REALLY DID HURT!!!!). Has no sensation there now

i was stripping paint just under the roof line, i applied the stripper then scraped off the paint, then i thought i had washed it all off, got out the trusty wire wheel and it went all over my skin and face. lucky i was wearing safety glasses.....

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1975 Leyland Mini: 1060cc - resto/ ex-hsc project.

I once had a router fixed to a bench and ran my the edge of my finger
right along it..... didn't even know till I thought "My finger feels warm" and
blood was everywhere.
Funny how you feel no pain till you see the blood and then I fainted.