Installation earns me a trip to the hospital

[80INCHES 5,000+ posts]

um cutting 0/1 wire is a b!tch cuz the strands got in my finger

80

 

[pickup1 5,000+ posts]

i was pulling wires from under the dash of a bronco i was working on,wire got alittle snug,pulled alittle harder.....top of my hand scrapped a piece of metal under the dash and gouged a 2 inch chunk out.p.o.s. ford!

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

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[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

there should be a installation horror story sticky

or perhaps 'installation horror sticky' it's got a nice ring

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

I was installing something in a friends car and something on the floor board ofthe truck sliced my hand open. It was a big car soI had to get in the trunk to do a couple things.

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

um cutting 0/1 wire is a b!tch cuz the strands got in my finger
80

i cut my 1/0 wit ha jig saw //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

ive cut 1/0 with everythign from garden shear to a hacksaw to a hatchet ...

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

tin snips

they just go ~snip~ ~snip~

and then you give the tin snips a big ol' thumbs up, like my brother and i are demonstrating below:

hey tin snips, ya, hey, good job buddy

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

a hatchet ...

You give my mind too many ideas. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif

potato gun packed with razors //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

lol the hatchet was a last ditched effort at a show lol the blunt end was good for crimping 1/0 ring terminals too lol

u do what u have to

 

[99StangGt 10+ year member]

I cut 1/0 with my wire cutters that cut all the way up to 500mcm wire. I crimp with my hydraulic crip tool, but I am also an electrician so i have alot of tools.

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Good god what haven't I done //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Managed to staple my finger once rather nicely while attaching fleece to some frame work. Me and ca glue don't get along to well . Way too many horror stories with that stuff //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Bolt cutters are always my choice for the larger gauge wire. Vice, punch, and a hammer for crimping //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Here's a new one.
I've worked with MDF plenty, but it's always been new stock. I made two speaker rings day before yesterday using MDF that spent the last 3 years in my trunk getting baked by the heat. Caused it to discolor a bit. My guess is the glue broke down a bit. Anyway, the night after routering this stuff up, I start itching like the dickens all acros my stomach and hands and knees. Get home the next morning and have hives all over. It started to clear up but last night my hands started o swell and so did my eyelids. Drove myself to the emergency room and got two shots for my trouble. My best guess is that the altered glue from the MDF is quite a skin irritant. I don't have allergies, so these things are usually pretty easy for me to figure out the cause of. The old MDF was the only different thing I was exposed to during the preceeding day. The spots that broke out were where I was sweating so there was something to carry the dust and glue into my pores.

Long and the short is that I ended up in the emergency room for something related to my install and don't even have a good scarto show for it, unlike a box I was building in HS where I bumped into the arm of the radial arm saw I was using and got a tiny scrape on my chest that didn't even bleed but left me with a two inch scar across my chest.

Anyone else fell like sharing war wound stories?

Formaldahyde (sp?) is a beeyotch ain't it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Formaldahyde (sp?) is a beeyotch ain't it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Yes, yes it is. The real **** of it all is that I have to go buy more MDF.