Well this afternoon was a fail.

I'm cutting the boot floor out of my clubby using my electric
angle grinder.
I get half way through the job and nicked the end of my finger with the angle grinder...... pretty damn deep too
So i cleaned the cut up and bandaged it so on then continued grinding
as I was sliding under the car the power cord got caught in the spinning grinder and pretty much cut the power cord in half.... Grinder dead until I strip and resolder the leads.

I pretty well gave up after that and put it down to a bad day....

Get a new lead put on it, don't strip and resolder.....it might work but its not right.

So many dodgy things in that post.....

Don't strip and re-solder. Do it the right way.

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Ryan Filippi
Minis In The Gong
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www.minisinthegong.com.au

Well that's no fun, good thing you didn't go for number 3, car might have fallen off the stands.

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Dean Hutton's first car was a Mini.

go hard big fella, love ur work. dunno about the dodgyness of the re-solder bit,,, but might be a little sus.

be cautious of the grinder.... i've felt your pain in the past.

did? your circiuit breaker go off!!!.

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PrOuDlY aSkInG qUeStIoNs FoR uR aMuEsMeNt

Not much fun what happened to you, but you can always look at it this way, 'It can always get worse'.

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The way I read your last mishap, you were sliding under the car with a grinder that was turned on?

Sounds like things could have been much much much worse than a severed power cord.

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ANY SEA ANY TIME

I was actually waiting for it to read I put the grinder into the fuel tank and KABLAMMO thankfully that didnt happen

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just put a new plug on where the cut in the cord is....

you almost always have an extension lead on anyways..

the grinders at my work always start with nice long brand new cords.. give it a month or three and they can be down to only inches long...

I was waiting for... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIu5B3Fsstg

na got under the car before i turned the grinder back on. just sliding around and got the cable stuck.

Yeah I'll definantly chuck a new power cable on it....
No fuel tank in the shell to blow up thank god hahaha
oh well try again tomorrow ..... with my air tool grinder hmmmm
what could possibly go wrong...

yea it's crap days like that i either walk away before i mame myself or choose a less risky task

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one van, one mini s, one knitted cardigan

Cut the air hose? Have the severed hose flick around like a demented python doing untold damage to you, the car and who knows what else. At least the power supply had a circuit breaker to trip and stop the supply.

Better have another beer and think about it some more while you nurse that finger. Hmmmmm... maybe you should just have another beer and think about a nurse

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Bad Week,

Finishing of the ports on the 202 head last Sunday, took glasses off to inspect port better (stupidly left 3mm die grinder running) looked in port, accidently bumped grinding stone on inside port and shot two sparks straight into my eye. Arrgghhhh!

Got metal removed Monday morning in the hospital, over this week have developed two rust rings so had them ground out this morning. Bit sore now

Moral of the story for me, no rushing, buy new clearer glasses.

I'm either getting older and wiser or older and un-co (spelling?)

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1968 Morris Mini Deluxe - members gallery
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garh, that would've hurt! I hope the kids didn't see you do it. That would've been scary.

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Bluey-1973 Clubby - 1330, high lift, big cam, 7 port madness in progress..

Gumby-1978 Minivan, British Racing Green - 1310, high lift, mild cam, enlarged porting and chamber shape with big valve head, supercharged build in ever slow progress!