Re: [Amc-list] Radiator Cap, exploded battery, welding without gloves

[Kelly Hardie <ramblinguy.kelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wife decided I should have an ear wedding ring for this and similar 
reasons...

Kelly

JWidiker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My shop partner was making a custom exhaust system for his Miata last
> spring. Had mocked everything up and decided to start tacking it together,
> phone rang, he walked over took his gloves off to answer the phone, walked
> back across the shop and thought to himself, "I'll just tack these last two
> spots and grab the gloves before I finish weld it". Of course thinking
> nothing bad would happen. 
>
> A large drip of slag fell off and landed directly on his wedding ring, if it
> had been his skin it would have bounced right off. It hit the gold band dead
> square in the middle bonding to it and heating it to several hundred degrees
> instantly. We got it off within 30-40 seconds, but it took quite a bit of
> skin with it.
>
> He's a very good welder with plenty of experience that made a bad choice
> that he could have gotten away with 99.9% of the time. 
>
> Being overly comfortable can be a dangerous thing and we learned a very
> valuable lesson from this incident.
>
> AMC content: A Miata has only two seats just like my AMX, otherwise they are
> quite dissimilar.
>
> ~J 
>
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