Manky Monkey Motors

Continuing my quest for self-extinction, here's tonight's garage injury. Don't try this at home kids.
Put a new sanding disc on the angle grinder, switched it on & while thinking about what I was going to do next, managed to brush my finger against it. Very unforgiving things angle grinders. My hands are covered in grinder scars after years of such carelessness. Amazed I haven't lost a digit or two yet. Sanded a flat spot on my fingertip, taking off several layers of skin in a fraction of a second. The only good thing is the heat of the disc usually cauterises the wound so not too much blood.
Ouch -again. :'(

Ha ha.  ;D ;D ;D

Best not be any blood on my mail tomorrow matey   :D

look no sympathy on this forum mate

Ohh it looks sore i hope it doesnt hurt too much

































NOt LOL

Thats jam out of one of many donuts you ate today.

Yeah, knew I'd get lots of sympathy from you lot. Just remember who's driving the hire car to the bike show at the NEC next weekend Flap -it's a long walk home.

I'm literally working my fingers to the bone here & nobody cares  :'(
Suffering for my art.

Seems to me you need to check out the following info to avoid any further problems (possibly true for Yoda too!).  Please note particularly the info that relates to wire wheels.

Tools

AIR COMPRESSOR - A machine that takes power from an oil-fired power station 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to an impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 30 years ago in Birmingham and rounds them right off.
BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER - A handy device for transferring sulphuric acid from a battery to the inside of your toolbox after verifying that your battery is deader than a doughnut, just like you thought.
E-Z OUT (BOLT & STUD EXTRACTOR) - A tool that snaps off in threaded holes and is 10 times harder than any known drill bit.
HACKSAW - One of a family of cutting tools based on the Ouija Board Principle: It takes human energy into a crooked unpredictable motion, the more you try to influence it's course, the more dismal your future becomes.
HAMMER - Formerly a weapon of war, this device is now used to locate expensive pieces and body parts near the object we were trying to hit.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER - Traditionally used to stab the lids on old style paper and tin oil cans in order to splash and ruin our favourite shirts, this device is now relegated to rounding heads on Phillips screws.
PLIERS - Used to round off bolt heads.
MOLE GRIPS - Used to round off bolt heads when pliers won’t do the trick. Also used to transfer the intense heat of welding to the palm of your hand.
SCREWDRIVER - Used to open beverage containers, can also serve as a chisel. Works well for removing skin from hand as well as making random gouges in other things.
WIRE WHEEL - Cleans rust and corrosion from old bolts and flings them somewhere under the workbench at the speed of light. Also good for removing fingerprints (from fingers).

Oh NOW you tell me! Hee Hee! That lot sounds horribly familiar!
Flap & I haven't quite worked our way up to air tools yet, but we ARE quite taken with the noise they make so may have to invest in an air wrench just so we can stand around the garage going wizzz, wizzz, wizzzzzz.

ooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :o

thats gotta hurt manky



critch not laughing at all. honest. im not . really...... :D ;D

Being a Postie, I've spent all morning shoving letter boxes open with that hand -shove..Oww. shove...oooh, shove..argh. Bugger, bugger, bugger.

I once spent a few days delivering Yellow Pages - I don't like postboxes!
Wouldn't be a postie for anything!

No, not yellow pages - the other one - Thompson

It IS a pretty thankless job.
Bobbi, can you post a bigger version of your avatar please so I can have a better look at your trike to compare with Rainbow's. Thanks.

Prolly easier if I email you some phots - but it will be totally different cos mine's not a hardtail!

Okey doke.
Just want to see how yours "sits", compared with hers. Her headsstock looks very high but I think it's just cos I'm used to looking at our ultra low ones. Her seat height is around 20" -what's yours?
If you post a few piccies to Yodie & tack on a couple of explanatory paragraphs we can make up a page for you in the Motors section.

Will do, later - got to take my grand-daughter to a party now!