Things not to do in your garage

[Ol'TrailDog]

Slight correction:



"Father's ex-friend" :-laf :-laf

 

[jtisdale]

what not to do in the shop...

Items needed:

1) oxy/ace torch (any tip)

2) an empty milk carton (not plastic)

3) something to stand behind



Open the empty milk carton as if to pour from it.

Set milk carton on a sturdy table (a 55gal. drum works well)

Light the torch and obtain a nice neutral flame.

Pinch off the hoses to extinguish the flame.

Place tip of torch with flame off into milk carton and release oxy/gas mixture into milk carton.

Count to 5

Stand behind a heavy door or something similar and re-light the torch.

Reach around the door with lit torch and BOOM!



Dont try this at home!

 

[FDrake]

sure thing............

The gas in a milk jug act sounds like a sure future winner for a Darwin Award. I wonder if sniffing that gas causes that to happen?

Frank

 

[Champane Flight]

Oh yea!

Had a friend show me that one when I was a kid. He says "Heres a large breadsack, we can fill it up with ox/ace and I will show you a trick", "OK" I reply. "Have you ever done this before?" I ask. "Sure" he says. I stand back, he goes in with a cigarette to light it off. BOOOOOOMMMM! He is standing out in the driveway looking like Wiley coyote, with a cigarette butt in his hand! Oh, it broke two of the nieghbors windows, we had to pay for... Not to mention the cops coming... .



"How big was the sack you used before"? I yelled "It was a small sandwich bag". He hollered. Niether of us could hear for the rest of the day... Not to mention his new haircut! :-laf

 

[DTroy]

Here's one that is definitely not for the timid. Use the same method with the oxy/acet. and fill a large garbage bag with it.



You'll need a fuse. And you can't be remotely close to it.





I "heard" that it will flex all the windows in your house and the doors will push against the doorframe.



Not that I would ... ahemm..... ever do that and say so in public.

 

[WDixon27]

was told about how nasty that was, said it knocked the street lights out, herd the same thing about pulling the wires out of a old ignition coil and throwing it over some power lines, personally id like to live a bit longer

Here's one that is definitely not for the timid. Use the same method with the oxy/acet. and fill a large garbage bag with it.



You'll need a fuse. And you can't be remotely close to it.





I "heard" that it will flex all the windows in your house and the doors will push against the doorframe.



Not that I would ... ahemm..... ever do that and say so in public.

 

[racerob]

I had just installed an engine transmission combo in a mustang, dad needed back in the garage, so i rolled the car out, it was outside our shop a few days. i got the drive shaft and most stuff together, but still lacked some things like exhaust, o2 sensors (which when missing cause a higher idle) and some fliuds. i decided to drive it back into the shop 'cause open headers are kinda cool anyway, but it needed the auto transmission fluid fill, so i got the funnel and fluid. Poured 4 qts, had to start to prime and fill lines, added another while idling, still no pulling after going through gears again, added another, and about that time it had enough to pull, i knew this because the car began to roll back away from me as apparently i did not make it all the way back into park after the last gear cycling and leaving the driver door open for easier access the next time. a mustang will travel at about 30 mph backward at about 1500 rpm "idle" across a field in a large circle just missing the 5' ditch on one side of the 12 acre field, the creek on another, and the two trees just as wide as the car in the fencerow. an 8" cedar tree about 100 yards the other side of the fencerow will stop a mustang traveling at about 30 mph backward across a field in a large circle with the outside of the driver's door touching the driver's side fender after the fencerow with very little damage to the tree, but not the right rear of the car. after some thought i was luckier than i first suspected that day as the car and my pride were the only things suffering any damage.

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

The forward folding door trick reminds of a dopey escapade whilst in High School. Took mom's VW bug hill climbing around Helena and didn't quite make it to the top. Open the driver's door so I could see better as I start motating backwards down the hill. Snagged the door and as Ricky would say there was a lot of "splaining" to do. :-laf See I can laugh about it now.







On edit: That also reminds me of taking the exhaust pipe extentions off the bug when ever I drove it... . just for the big block rumble . Well, I was traveling fast on the gravel backroad on the North side of Canyon Ferry Res. between Townsend and Helena. I came up over the top of a hill and, voile!, here comes my dad in his 64 Impala SS 396 . Surprise, caught red handed. More splaining to do.



Unfortunately, my parents had a reputation for being very disciplinarian... don't know why

 

[cahammer]

i just fell like i wouldn't fit in if i didn't tell one on me last year i was running a paper route from twinfalls to boise about 150-170 miles one way i needed a camper shell to hold the papers in the back so they wouldn't blow out mind you i would haul about 3000 to 5000 papers a night 5 nights a week i loved my stacks but i couldn't run them with a camper shell on so on the weekends i'd take the camper shell off and put my stacks back on i have a 2 way exhaust system (look in readers pics) so every sunday night before i left to do the paper rout i would take the stacks off switch the route of the exhaust and put the camper shell on well one sunday night it was cold and i couldn't get the stack off the one side so i climbed up into the pick-up bed and proceeded to try to pull the stack out of the u pipe so when i am standing over the stack pulling with all my might and body i weight about 330 it lets loose and WACK!right smack in the face i got a 2in. cut just above the bridge of my nose and a slight concusion not to mention a 5 hour trip ahead of me

 

[LesStallings]

Metal watch band. Limited space between the starter hot post and the car frame.



The watch band got a bit hot. I burned the fingers on my other hand trying to get the watch off. Needless to say, I had a perfect burn "bracelet" where the watch band was. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

 

[rubberneck]

Metal watch band. Limited space between the starter hot post and the car frame.



The watch band got a bit hot. I burned the fingers on my other hand trying to get the watch off. Needless to say, I had a perfect burn "bracelet" where the watch band was. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I witnessed my dad do the exact same thing with an old watch with metal band. from that day on i will wear nothing on my hands when in the shop. Also watched a guy drop a transmission on the bench and crush his wedding band on his finger. My dad grabbed the channel locks and "straightened" the ring back out just as the finger was turning a nice shade of purple. ring was kind of square after that. LOL

 

[PToombs]

Metal watch band. Limited space between the starter hot post and the car frame.



The watch band got a bit hot. I burned the fingers on my other hand trying to get the watch off. Needless to say, I had a perfect burn "bracelet" where the watch band was. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Plastic watch, nylon band with velcro fastener, Walmart, $6. I don't feel so bad about trashing them at work. I have a good watch for "playtime"