oadamo
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| posted on 28/5/07 at 07:54 PM |
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what a ****ing day
what a day ive had today with my rs turbo. clifford alarm started playing up 2nd one in two years. so i started to try and fix it. seen a few other
jobs that needed fixing on the wiring 5 hours later ive a car thats had the battery shorted out  now it wont start and now its got a size 8 foot
print dent on the door. i cant feel my hands and my backs killing me lol.
so the moral of the story is dont drop live wires onto body work and only find out when you smell it burning
adam
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 28/5/07 at 08:13 PM |
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Done similar when I caught a wire which came out of its crimp on my last car which I'd spent ages putting a PC into. Started to smoke and melt
and I just grabbed handfuls of cables and just had to rip everything out in a panic 
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oadamo
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| posted on 28/5/07 at 08:17 PM |
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its gonna be my doner for my locost anyway. but now ive gotta mess about and try and fix it. all i had to do was fix a loose wire then one thing led
to another and i fried it lol
[Edited on 28/5/07 by oadamo]
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JoelP
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| posted on 28/5/07 at 08:48 PM |
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lol  i drove into a lamppost last night, been pulling headlights out today
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Macbeast
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| posted on 28/5/07 at 09:16 PM |
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As Mr Haynes always says - "disconnect the battery " 
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owelly
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| posted on 28/5/07 at 11:49 PM |
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I have a burn on my wrist from when my metal watchstrap shorted out on my battery post.........
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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trogdor
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| posted on 29/5/07 at 08:39 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by owelly
I have a burn on my wrist from when my metal watchstrap shorted out on my battery post.........
ouch!
i once dropped a spanner across the terminals of my battery throwing up loads of sparks, i slammed the bonnet down waiting for it to explode, but
luckily it didn't. Must of been very discharged.
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Phil.J
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| posted on 29/5/07 at 09:22 AM |
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Had a Clifford alarm on my last car, totally crap!
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 29/5/07 at 11:57 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by trogdor
i once dropped a spanner across the terminals of my battery throwing up loads of sparks, i slammed the bonnet down waiting for it to explode, but
luckily it didn't. Must of been very discharged.
I used to work in telephone exchanges, which had 50v bus bars all round the top of the equipment racks. These were aluminium or copper bars around
10mm thick, and anywhere between 100mm and 300mm deep. They could carry a LOT of current, and were backed up by immense lead-acid batteries (each 2v
cell could weigh a ton or more). The people who worked on these were supposed to use insulated spanners - but one bright spark decided not to...
Spanner bridged the positive & negative rails, many hundreds of amps went through it, centre of the spanner got vaporised and the wally got a
badly burnt hand. The remaining jaws of the spanner were mounted on a piece of wood and stuck on the wall as a warning to others...
DJ
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