just made a circut using my watch between positive and body metal, lucky it was still on my wrist at the time 🙁 a bit of a burn and a trip to the doctors and now i think i might give it a break for today, start work again tomorrow.
trunk monkey, because sometime getting your car back just isn't enough
Can you show us a pic of ya baja as i have one the same as youand it used to be orange.
i did that once, was it one of those metal elastic bands? mine was, i had little burns where the spark had arked between each link, bloody shocking
Ouch,
thats gotta hurt!!
'Ah, whatever................'
Happy my watch band is leather then, mmm....Leather...🤘
nah it was full metal and burned a solid line where the links welded together and got me where the backing was touching my skin, not cool at all. ill get a hold of a pic for you guys.
trunk monkey, because sometime getting your car back just isn't enough
My ole boy was helping me out in the engine bay a few years and he also touched the postive with his steel watch. At the time he was jumping around saying it burns etc and I was having a laugh at him acting so strange. Get it off, get it off, get what off?? He got some serious burns to his wrist as wasnt a happy camper. Still laugh about it today😁 Hope you wrist is not as bad Ben.
its alright now, just gotta keep the dressing on for 5 days. looked pretty bad, white and green shriveled up burn, not cool at all
trunk monkey, because sometime getting your car back just isn't enough
damm only done that with the spanner once or twice. that would have made you jump with the pain! did it heat up around ur wrist?
alex
yeah, jumped at first cause of the sound, then started to feel the burn and just threw the watch off and looked at my wrist then got in under some water. not to bad anymore, just gotta keep the stupid dressing on
trunk monkey, because sometime getting your car back just isn't enough
I had a mate who was having naughties in the back of a worn out old beetle when the seat earthed and the horsehair (or whatever it is) caught fire! Certainly put a downer on the whole situation😎
ive had the seat earth in the back of my car before.
now i have a 16mm slab of plastic inder it, wrapped in a sheet of rubber. im not taking any chances
Saw a bloke lose his finger when his wedding ring shorted out at work. Try acciddently shorting 50v 1000 amp hour batteries out and see what that does for your tools and nerves.
All this was long ago before "workcover" Moral is no rings, plastic watches and properly insulated tools(not insulation tape wrapped around the spanner)
had a bit of hot metal fly back off a weld onto a silver ring a was wearing... 3rd degree burns the whole way around where the ring was... had a perfect 'ring' blister for about 5 weeks..
Accept it. Somedays you are the pidgeon, somedays you are the statue...
so is yer watch 6 or 12 volts
and is it rechrged now ..or ded ha ha ha bet it hurts
in future WATCH IT !
Karmen
56 oval resto 60 Cal KG
58 & 62 beetle parting. 74 panel parting
63 Baja 80 GLD parting
58 donor split 11 window 63 Splitty sgle cab /son's
96 Seat Cordoba GLX daily drvr.
