Self harming

[MarkJ]

...when working on your bike.

I can't be the only one who can't work on the bike without hurting himself. Every time it seems to be the Stanley knife - I can't use one without eventually cutting a finger! Yesterday I managed to cut open a cut that had only been healed a couple of days from the last time it was attacked with the Stanley knife

Does anyone have an arch nemesis in tool form? I think I've been pretty lucky with hammers so far.

[Rogerborg]

Not tools so much as finding anything sharp or pointy on the bike. Blood for the blood god!
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[P.]

Tyre levers.

I HATE tyre levers.

Always slips when at full pressure and twats your already frozen fingers making tears well up and make you throw them across the garage.

Aside from that... I'm alright with tools

[chris-red]

Nope not just you, the 'Four nearly took an eye.

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[devojunior]

rebuilding a ktm 625 few weeks ago and came to re fitting piston clips, slipped and sliced my knuckle down a piston ring it was like a razor blade the bllod was unreal.

[Bendy]

[chris-red]

[Clanger]

If I so much as go near a motorbike I either end up with oil on my hands / clothes or bruised...or both. And funnily enough, yesterday I went near a few bikes (wasn't aware that I'd actually been that close) and today I have two whoppers of bruises... I seriously have no idea how I got them.*shakes head*
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[AlexW]

I work in the motortrade, I only hurt myself once a week/fortnight now though.

Normally is knife when cutting something or catching my hand on a sharp edge.

[Teflon-Mike]

My first PAYE job was in the tool room of a factory making metalastic bushes and rubber extrusions for the auto-industry. In the tool room, we made and maintained the moulds and dies.

Gaffer didn't bother going to the 'Clock-in' at main entrance to see if I was on site..... he checked department 'Accident-Book' outside his office!

.... Usually to decide whether it was worth going to the drill cupboard to get a new pilot bit..... If I was 'in' chances were there wouldn't be any!
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[dudders7]

[Handsome]

I've been told I could get dirty in a stainless steel room...

But whenever I work on either a car or bike I always bang and skin my knuckles...
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[pepperami]

Regular work on bike and the spilling of blood is a rite-of-passage.

I dont think I have a single finger that has`nt been mangled by a bike at one time or another
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[Poseidon]

Vehicles have got it in for me. I cannot work on any vehicle, including my little nitro RC car without drawing blood. In fact, I've been known to sustain serious flesh wounds from cleaning my car in the past.

Spanners are my nemesis. Usually when putting all my effort into undoing a bolt, the bolt will suddenly give, resulting in me twanging my hand really hard on something pointy.
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[1cyl]

I try to take things slower at work now and try to spot Personal Injury Potential before it happens, or just give what i deem to be a "high risk" task to apprentice an watch him lacerate himself on cue.

Despite my hands being super hard and course now i still suffer at least once a month however, usually one of those super clean deep cuts that takes ages to heal, although put a screw right through my thumb nail in november, still growing out slowly.

Usually wear my old motorbike gauntlets when working on (or even just cleaning) bike to try and minimise injury, ever since spanner slipped and i sliced myself on a king nut R clip which left me with a fountain like those crazy 88 kills on kill bill.
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[Teflon-Mike]

[1cyl]

[Rncv]

The sad thing is its not normally the bike that causes me pain its the parts from the postman.

yesterday i got a new battery holder. It had a million layers of sticky tape/bubble wrap so out comes the swiss knife (which i happened to sharped that morning) half way though opening said package the knife slipped and went straight down the tip of my finger..
I drop the battery holder at stared at my finger, 5 seconds later my hand was red
A few steri strips and some micropore later i was back on the case!
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[Supermotard37...]

I jammed a pair of needle nose pliers into my thumb whilst trying to put on an exahust spring and that hurt like fuck, also tightning things an punching the floor or the bike or sprockets, and i always seem to work on my bike in clean clothes!
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[Billing]

Last proper injury sustained was from picking up an end can by the bolt and strap, 2 fingers on the bolt, thumb on the edge of the strap, picked it up and as soon as the weight shifted it split my thumb open like a bloody razor blade would!

On the VFR I think I would sustain a crushing type injury every time I worked on it! Stupid tiny jap bikes
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[TheSmiler]

The only pain I've had is from getting a stubborn nut of the bike causing the finger to get a blister and getting petrol in the blister which bloody stings guess I'm the lucky one
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[nant]

When i was cutting some fabric for a my dads bike seat with a stanley knife. Managed to narrowly miss my artery just below my wrist on the inside. Cue blood everywhere and taken hospital for stitches. Havent touched a stanley knife since!

[TheSmiler]

[blade023]

I can't remember the last time I properly hurt myself from doing any sort of bike work. Working in a kitchen though, it's obligatory to burn and/or cut yourself on a regular basis.