Author: rghoff@bb1t.monsanto.com (Home for the Holidays, its your turn to take out the trash)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 91 14:48:41 -0600
I just read Scott Paisley's story about his crushed foot. OUCH! And I'm sure we can all tell a tale of something we've done (or was done to us). But here's some rules I try to use when I working on m
5. If you are working with gasoline or starter fluid, have a water hose and a fire extinguisher (with the safety pin already removed) close at hand. I almost learned this one the hard way. I was pri
I've always worried about my jacks and jackstands and frame members collapsing, I learned the hard way to worry about the pavement too when I had the back end of my (rear-engined) greyhound bus jacke
Anybody else have anything to add? thanks, Rick Hoffman Actually, what I have to add are just two of my own experiences that thankfully did not end up doing serious bodily harm to my bodily, but coul
-Once when replacing a 4spd. tranny into a '66 Nova (with the engine in the car), I did not have a tranny jack available, so I used the next best thing: me. ...laying under the car, positioned the be
I had the pavement in a parking lot give way under a forklift. All four wheels went through and it ended up on it's belly pan. Had to get a bigger fork lift to lift it out. dickn
I've heard of way too many tragedies and near tragedies associated with jackstands to use them much (about the only thing I use them for is to hold up the crowbar when I'm futzing with the rear sprin
Sorry, neither happened with my Super Seven but both are lessons I was tuning my Z in a garage and thought the car was in neutral I reached through the window and started it to check the timing. The
Just to put my two cents in on jackstands. They are perfectly safe if you buy decent ones. Only buy $10 jackstands if you have a $10 body. Buy good sturdy jackstands, carefully place them under a stu
Rick Hoffman has some generally good suggestions on safety. It seems I read every couple of years about some enthusiast or other who got killed while working under a car; it's a serious place. I must
````My additions ... Wherer adequate eye & lung protection for the job you are doing. The first day I started sanding on my TR3, I noticed that I was spitting up fine paint dust. I was outside & in t
Scott Fisher writes in reply to Rick: It's that same curiosity of perennially wanting to "help" that you have to watch out for. My son, Ryan, proved that to me about 2 years ago... I had the back of
TerriAnn Two of my daughters have rebuilt their own engines, dispite the fact that one is studying fashon design in Paris(and looks the part) and the other manages a book store (and "dresses for suc
Teriann cautions Pat and me about rearing our daughters to be mechanically competent: Well, given the genetic makeup passed to them by both parents, it's too late for me to worry about THAT. -- "Do y
Pat, you are leading your daughters down the path of dirty hands and unnatural activities!!! If you train little girls how to use tools, solve mechanical problems, and to fix & maintain mechanical th