worst thing during building a car

[_miga_]

what thing do you hate most, or ever happened to you during building/repairing a Tamiya car?[8o|]

 my thing  (now i can laugh about it) [H]

i was sitting on the floor glueing wheels on the rims. During glueing the 3rd rim some instant adhesive splashed up directly in my left eye. - this eye baste instantly together. with hot water i brought up this eye again. Then i was brought to the hospital where i was medicated and my eye was fully recovered. Since then i always take a saftey glasses [8-|], while doing that. - i hate glueing wheels

[Shodog]

I was polishing a window for my Hilux using a buffing wheel mounted to a bench grinder.  I cuaght an edge of the window and the force of the wheel sent the window zinging around my garage.  I was torqued when I found I had broken it in a couple of places. 

[minijosh]

I always find that I strip screws when rebuilding my race cars or my off road runners. It's so frustrating. You want it as tight as possible but if you over tighten then you are screwed hehe get it. All the plastic or alloy comes out on the screw and then it's time to pull out the super glue. Oh I hate that.

[civilguy]

After days of carefully trimming, masking, painting, and detailing a nice lexan body, I spotted a small burr on the bottom edge of the body. I grabbed the xacto knife to shave off the offending bit and slipped, sending a brand new blade along the inside of the shell.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

Oh, that and putting the full length (about 1 inch) of a precision screwdriver into the end of my finger.  I don't really want to admit this, but I was trying to get a bearing off an axle WITHOUT damaging the bearing (yeah, the 60 cent bearing).  It was really tight up against the end of the axle, so I got the smallest screwdriver I had to sneak it in there to loosen it a bit.  Unfortunately everything was covered in WD40 and sort of slippery.  When the screwdriver went past the axle I dropped everything and then realized there was a heavy feeling at the end of my finger.  It went in the lower side of my index finger and I could see the tip bulging the skin on top of my finger.  I actually pulled it out calmly and let it bleed (figuring that might get some of the grease/dirt/WD40 out of the inside of my finger).  My 7 year old daughter saw me cleaning my finger afterwards so I told her about what happened.  Her response???  "Why didn't you leave it in there and show me??"  I had to laugh....

[Madmat]

The worst thing i cant think of was when i was removing some flashing from a part with an No.11 blade. I was removing the flashing when suddenly i thought to myself..."I should really try and be careful with this or else i could cut myself"......Well i had only finished thinking that when the blade left the part and removed about 3/4 inch of skin from the top of my finger[:'(]... I can easily say it wasn't the most pleasant feeling.

More recently I had an exhast spring tool decide to take a quick journey through the end of my finger quickly being followed by some threadlock....Atleast i caould rest assured that my finger wasn't going to come loose!!

 

[r6stu]

I had screwing in the screws into the plastic! I get really bad cramps in my hands after about an hour of using a manual SD. But then after an hour of the electric one, the batt goes flat!

[MikeT]

Kinda tamiya related, I was holding an allen key whilst making a cup of tea and i poured boiling water over my hand...

1am i was in A&E where they saw to this girl who had " bumped her knee " ice skating, before me.

2am i was home.

9am, biggus came to take me to the NW meet, LOL!

Mike

[nigeninja]

Not so much what's happened, but I'm so sick of painting the drivers heads its just soooooooooooooo boring now,the same old helmet the same face the same fire mask damm I'm even getting bored talking about it[|-)] . Any one out there got a side line painting heads and selling them cos you can do all mine[]. 

[rhenbelz]

Well my builds always go well, it's my late-night modifications that don't. I spend a lot of time working on cars at 2AM because it's more interesting than sleep. Needless to say my mental state at those times is not at its best, and stuff happens. Broken custom body posts because I dropped the car (several times), cutting down important screws 3 times as far as necessary and having to special order new ones, having piles of small parts scattered across the room due to loss of hand-eye coordination, forcing the wrong size bearings into now damaged wheels because they looked right at the time....