My Dad and my austin 7
Let me explain that the Austin 7 is just a chassis and needs stripping down, first things first remove petrol tank as this was flapping about, second trying to remove a rotten petrol tank bracket, one side undoes, other side has come away from the chassis but is still bolted on, undoing 70 year old bots is not fun especially when the heads are round
Righty not enough room for a hacksaw, big hammer and pointy chisel it is!
DAD POWER! (he's a big bloke)
WHAM WHAM WHAM - OW - "dad you alright" "yeah" WHAM WHAM *chingle chingle* dropping the chisel due to being all slippy and covered in blood "you want to put some electrical tape on that your bleeding all over the place" "suppose i better"
WHAM WHAM WHAM - nut comes off - yay!
What my dad had actually done was missed the chisel, hit the bit between the thumb and finger, split the skin with the impact of the hammer on one side of his hand and on the other the force of the impact hit the U shaped part of the chassis and had cut into his skin, if there wasn't so much blood all over the place i'm sure you could have seen straight though his hand!
*makes a cup of tea and wipes blood off everything*
couple minutes later (sitting out in the sun drinking tea on the doorstep) one of dads mates turns up "hey look what i did" removing the tape to show the battle scars, blood starts to drip out the hole at the bottom of his hand *puts pressure on it* then blood starts coming out the top of his hand - ha ha *applies more electrical tape*
and bit later all nicely healed but has no feeling in that part of his hand anymore! (only sensitive to hot and cold) oops nerve damage!
as for length, its only 6 foot long! (the chassis that is)
( SkUG >_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:36, Reply)