I feel stupid

man!!!! i have heard stories about this!!! when i was learning to run a mill they made me say CHECK THE CHUCK (meaning the the adjuster for the rachet) outloud every time i did anything. i would say it like 1000000000 times making one little drill hole... but i have to say it works i look up about a billion times to check it

i have however flipped on the lathye with the t handle in the chuck... that sucker flew across the room at about 10xs the speed of sound... it actually shook all of us up that where in there working that we called it a day... my heart was pounding!
 
i used compressed air to remove the piston from mi brake calliper.. it came out much faster than i thought it would seeing i had the bleeder nipple removed. Lucky my finger was in their to stop it.. Ouch that hurt ::)
 
Any of you use a disk brake lock?


You can guess where this is going. Fancy restaurant with workmates - trying to impress the ladies I ride the VFR - pristine Red White Blue one and click on the lock.

After dinner, feeling good, still in full on impress the peers mode. try to look cool, start bike, rve it enough to make a super fast drag type take off.



Bike leaps sideways and throws me on the ground to save itself from too much damage.

Not so cool.
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one, Teazer. That sounds exactly like my story a few posts back.
 
not bike related but i always laugh at myself when i think of this story.. i was just starting as a tech and had pulled an old dakota onto the alignment rack after installing a new rack and pinion. raised the rack, put the heads on the wheels, and had to hop in the truck to sweep camber/caster.. clicked the key on and truck fired up in first gear, ran off of the rack and smashed the alignment machine knocking it into the wall and murdering it.. well the truck had a bad neutral safety switch.. smashed the front end all to hell.. the best part was explaining to the customer, her response? "it doesnt look bad, dont worry about it. my son has wrecked this damn truck so many times it doesnt matter anymore." hahah! we knocked the labor off of the bill and gave her a bunch of free oil changes and she was happy as shit..

one of the most terrifying experiences due to another workers stupidity was when the fucktard pulled in a car with no brakes, go to the door and hit the gas, came flying at my toolbox doing a good 25mph. i jumped out of the way and he smashed my box seconds later... he then proceeds to push the door open, and in complete shock puts the car in reverse and smashed the hell out of the door.. the best part? i had to fix the brake lines, headlights, and get the door to close and seal again..
 
Wednesday I decided it would be a good idea to hold the manifold I was making by hand while drilling on it... NOT a good idea, it spun around in my hand cutting me a bit.
 
This actually dawned on me today:

There's been a strange clunking noise coming from what i thought was the front end on my Jeep. It's been making the noise for over a month now. After I looked around for it and didnt find anything my wife took it to the mechanic next door to her office and they looked at - nothing again. They told her it could be the CV joint but arent really sure.

So I've been putting it off the whole time since I have only been driving my Jeep back and forth to work (5 minutes each way) but on my way home this morning I hit a pothole and my HARDTOP banged. Sure enough, 5 out of the 6 bolts were loose and the 6th bolt had actually come out all together. Turns out that "clunking" sound was my hard top sliding left and right on the body tub.
 
Car related but whatever. Had a 91 Nissan 240sx hatch with an auto in it. Went to change oil one day, drained it down, looked black as shit, thought to myself "Hmmm, maybe it's a good thing I changed it now!" Got done and took her for a drive. Backed out of the driveway, threw it in D and didn't go anywhere. Hmmm. Anyone at this point anyone would realize what I did, except for me. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why it wouldn't engage the Transmission. Pushed it back into the driveway, checked the trans fluid. Sure enough, empty. So I filled it back up with some brand spanking new trans fluid and everybody was happy. Until that is, 4 months later when I went to change my oil again, and did the same thing, again... I got the drain plugs confused and was draining the trans pan both times. Second time I figured it out and promptly pulled out my man card, threw it in the trash and beat my head against a wall...
 
hahahhaha....

hope you dont make the same mistake working on planes ;) :D :D
 
Well, I don't normally work on planes, but I do work on a lot of valves for ships, so I guess the same principle applies. But yeah, I've yet to live that one down. The wife reminds me of it every time I say I'm gonna do something to the bike.
 
my-79-750-k said:
Well, I don't normally work on planes, but I do work on a lot of valves for ships, so I guess the same principle applies. But yeah, I've yet to live that one down. The wife reminds me of it every time I say I'm gonna do something to the bike.
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Wives are great for reminding us when we were stupid. Ex-wives are even better!
 
my first car was overheating when I left school so I came back and pulled up to the auto shop where a friend was in the after school auto club. He came to help and we decided we should put some water in it so I could get home. Somehow between the two of us no one thought "maybe we should wait til it cools down and the pressure drops.." So he went to open the filler cap, I heard the hissing but it was too late. I turned my face just in time to get my scalp sprayed with molten hot coolant. He got a little on him but not too bad. I guess I was just far enough back where the spray got cooled enough to not severly burn me. My hair didn't fall out or anything, but my scalp was sore and peeling for about a week. I'll never make that mistake again.
 
I'm do stupid good.....

My first car was a heap of '69 bug. The floorboards were so rusted out as to not really even be there. You could see the road going by right under your feet! Being an ingenuous 16 year old, I 'replaced' the floorboards with an old realtor's sign I hoarked out of some yard.
I drilled the pan rails and tunnel base full of holes and pop-riveted the trimmed down aluminum panel in place. For several months it was a fairly solid floor.......
aluminum+rusty steel+wet Oregon weather=

Forward to the night sophomore prom; I was Storming the Bastille with my date, 3 hours after her curfew at a make-out spot where she was forbidden to go (I was only threatened by her father you understand) and the rivets and rusted floor-pan gave out and her seat was suddenly 6" lower resting on the pavement.

Tough time explaining to her very angry father why we were there, well after her remove from circulation limit and......ARE THOSE PANTIES!!!!!!!

boy could HE not take a joke.....
 
cowboysculptor said:
Wives are great for reminding us when we were stupid. Ex-wives are even better!
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Oh god so true. Why can't it end with the divorce? :facepalm
 
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