Oh, that hurts a lot! When working on the race car goes wrong, it’s gonna leave a scar. But what can you do? My finger hopefully will have it’s feeling back soon. More progress on the car, but as always it seems work is terribly slow. Less than two weeks away from our Knoxville race, lets go!
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Wow that's a wound
Dad would say it will feel good when it quits hurting and laugh like hell ✌
I feel your pain John. last year I was tightening the chuck on a 90 degree drill and hit the trigger. it shoved the chuck key straight through my thumb. It never hurt real bad and didn't bleed too much surprisingly. but it did freak out some of my co workers.. When that shit happens, it happens Right now So quickly.. Take care
2023 John……..No New Year Resolutions?
Always working on the improvements. Thumbs up and God bless all
Good luck this year hope you back to kicking ass !!!!
Ouch. Do you have a tetanus shot ? Get some hydrogen peroxide.
Take care of that finger and man she sounds good now I hope she makes some good times later bud
Man did I see billy gap Joey , would have been cool if u could have been at da pad ..
I've built a lot of stainless exhausts for race cars and aircraft. To mitigate cracking issues get a bucket of water with a rag and quench those welds as you make them. This does several things one it keeps you from burning yourself as much and it also reduces the stress in the material by controlling thermal expansion. Additionally it anneals the material restoring some ductility. The world was difficult to draw because of carbide precipitation. You probably don't want to go to the hassle but back purging is the solution to that
Pulled my car apart to do upgrades I don't know how you do it John was up all night driving me crazy knowing it was all apart.
Wear gloves when drilling, grinding welding and using any other sharp tools! You can't work when you're injured. I stuck a sharp tool all the way my left index finger many years ago damaging the tendons and cutting a nerve. My finger tip was numb for about a year but the severed nerve repaired itself. The damaged tendons required expensive surgery to repair.
Brother OMG im a machanic so im SUPER CRINGING right now ☹ been there done that
Ouch, I hate when that happens!!
John out of all the car guys on YouTube you and Chief show the passion and drive
I had to pause the video and dance around the living room like Jim Carry. IT'S IN THE BONE, IT'S IN THE BONE!!!
I have done it it happens but I didn't feel a thing lol just kidding glad it wasn't worse
Idiot! And welded again without argon protection … overheated and burned the metal … It will crack again during the first heating cycle!
ouch I feel your pain. I did something similar, but it was a Phillips to the palm.