FuryRebuild
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| posted on 15/3/14 at 07:20 PM |
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some days it all goes pants
So,
Not feeling very well, I thought I'd do a simple job - put the kingspan in the curing oven and test the oven/PID. No such luck. The original
sizings I had dreamt up were nothing like the new oven configuration. So, I didn't have enough kingspan. None of the DIY stores in Harrogate
have enough, and the builders merchants are closed. So ... scrap that job.
Second I thought - well... I could coat the fuel tank in high-build; that's a satisfying job and not one I've done before. Then I
remembered I haven't got an airline running out to shedopolis yet; great! A nice simple job, just unroll my three 15m airlines, see which
end-connectors I need and Bob's your uncle Fred's special friend. No such luck - I need an airline with a female end, and the only piece
of hose I have left doesn't have threaded ends, just cut (for fitting m-2-m connectors).
Raking through my airline drawer doesn't yield a solution. By now the shops are shut, so that option is a closed door.
So, I thought, seize a simple job - clean out my expanding foam gun ... I screw the gun onto the cleaner and relax the nozzle a bit. Pull the trigger
- nothing. I unscrew and look and see the non-return ball bearing in the mount; No worries I think; I'll just poke that bearing to see if
it's stuck. Poke ... face full of expanding foam.
Luckily my eye-closing reflex works well, and I didn't get an eye-full. This explains why the gun was clogged - I needed to undo the setting
more to give more force to get the cleaner through. So, straight into the house to get the foam off my face, hair, forehead and eyebrows. Acetone
cleans it off - not something I'm especially comfortable rubbing near my eyes.
So, a totally unproductive day, and a near miss with a face full of foam.
When all you have is a hammer, everything around you is a nail.
www.furyrebuild.co.uk
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mark chandler
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| posted on 15/3/14 at 07:31 PM |
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Not done foam in the face, did have a shulz gun block and cover me in black goo, the only thing to hand to clean myself was petrol 
Stung washing my hair and face that's for sure, I feel your pain
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owelly
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| posted on 15/3/14 at 07:31 PM |
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What?!! No foamy face pictures?!! Pah!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 15/3/14 at 07:35 PM |
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Some days you just have to walk away and concede that this is the time when you're not going to do anything right. Better to admit defeat and
come back refreshed another day... 
As you may have guessed - been there, done that!
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big_wasa
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| posted on 15/3/14 at 07:40 PM |
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yep some days its better and much much cheaper in the long run to shut the garage door.
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 16/3/14 at 06:38 AM |
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I would suggest, go and make a cup of tea. But, in this case, it just might be best to ask someone else, nicely, to make one for you.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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