Everyone has a moment where they just stop thinking right?

Yesterday I solved the age old question of who would win... grinder with knotted wire wheel or bare naked forearm. Who do you think came out victorious?

I was prepping the last pad area on the Porsche 968 that came in over the weekend.  I'd been using my new Milwaulkee 4.5" grinder for the rest of the pad areas, but thought I'd give it a rest and use my smaller Bosch (which has a thumb switch that you can push to stay on... which will be important in about 2 seconds). Got into position, laying on my side in the passenger side footwell, partially under the dash, face shield on, gloves on, fired up ..." DIE SEAM SEAL.... wait a sec... If I use it this way it's going to kic... "

Just like in the 3 Stooges, when Curly plugs in the belt sander and it flys across the table and runs up Moes chest and sands his face off, the wire wheel bounced free from my grip, gained traction on my bare forearm, zipped along my left leg and was off to the races until I grabbed it by the cord. In my best Steve Irwin imitation, I had it by the tail and waited for it to settle down and turned it off. Crikey!

I'll spare the web the nice little pics I've got of my forearm. Good thing I had jeans on... even better that it didn't go about 3" to the right when it hit my jeans!

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