That moment when....

[bigegg]

When you're nearly thru painting your van, it's getting dark, and you pick up an emulsion roller instead of a foam, and leave an entire panel full of fluff.

 

[CRB]

Excuse the lag,

Seems that only me and Chunkolini get good moments , its a wonder the rest of ya get out of bed in the morning .

He is in lurrrvvvvve

when your in posh company and have to squeeze out a bit of silent wind to relief pressure and it smells like a dead rat and your visitors are too polite to say anything and your not sure whether to apologise, act like it was somebody else or laugh. Not that it has ever happened to me of course

Blame the dog. Dearly Beloved does, and the dog stinks too.

That moment when you're tidying up your workshop and you knock a big motor off of your bench, you look down in horror as it hurtles towards your foot but it occurs to you that you're wearing steel toed boots so it'll be fine. Then it misses the steel by a millimetre and the shaft smacks into the unshielded part of your foot.


Don't ask why I didn't move my foot!

?Why not move your foot? I always stay still and make sure I follow the errant item until it stops. Mind you a motor is not going far.

Mine........the moment you realise that although you have had a week off, you have lost too much time to things you have no control over to attend a meet you have been looking forward to for six months.

The fact that the welding thing has been going brilliantly makes not a jot of difference whatsoever.

 

[the snooper]

after replacing a transistor you realise you should have also replaced the relay flyback diode

 

[CRB]

after replacing a transistor you realise you should have also replaced the relay flyback diode

 

[the snooper]

ok it makes no sense to some, when a relay is turned off it can produce electricity that blows the transistor that operates the relay, the diode effectively shorts out the relay coil stopping the power reaching the transistor, any clearer

 

[Bsmith]

The moment when your concrete is just about mixed and the little Briggs and Stratton stops, no end of pulling will start it again until you empty the drum, then first pull, it's away denying there was anything wrong.

 

[Turbo]

You've just spent half a day changing the gearbox on a fwd car, working off jacks & axle stands, balancing the gearbox on your knees while trying to line up the shaft with the clutch plate. You have everything on and tightened, just the clutch cable to attach. You wonder why there's so much slack in the cable. Then you notice the clutch release bearing sitting on the bench. It's at this stage that tools get launched and the air turns blue.

 

[CRB]

ok it makes no sense to some, when a relay is turned off it can produce electricity that blows the transistor that operates the relay, the diode effectively shorts out the relay coil stopping the power reaching the transistor, any clearer

Nope, I just do not understand electrics. Perhaps a 'thicko' emoticon is needed.

 

[bigegg]

Nope, I just do not understand electrics. Perhaps a 'thicko' emoticon is needed.

Its a little square black thing that goes *bang* .
You change the little square black thing that went "bang", but don't change the little round black thing that stops the new one going " bang".

The little round black things are 10p.
The square black things that go "bang" are a tenner.

 

[mike os]

When it goes bang the magic electrickery smoke demon escapes

 

[ajlelectronics]

When it goes bang the magic electrickery smoke demon escapes

Not such a problem anymore...

 

[Maker]

When you're playing on your new lathe and a blue hot chip jumps down your shirt.

 

[mike os]

Not such a problem anymore...

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lucas part so broke already...

 

[chunkolini]

You fall in love..............................
It seems to be official. A daft business...........

 

[the snooper]

arc welding and a red hot piece of slag falls down your boiler suit/shirt and sticks to your chest in a position you can't reach it without removing your boiler suit and hoodie....and takes skin with it...

Also welding gloves that go from cool, hands feeling fine to "holy hell fire thats hot, owww my hand" in about one second..

had them down sleeves, back, chest, in boots, ear, tooth, those 2 hurt, hair, drop in palm of hand and of course set to to your top overall pockets

 

[F.J.]

That moment after years of lurking around land rover forums, wondering to buy one or not, then throwing caution to the wind and becoming the winning bidder on an old disco commercial!!

 

[clueless77]

You realise it wasn't just a fart

 

[Turbo]

You've spent all day working on your rally car. It's 11pm and you decide to load it onto the transporter ready for leaving early Sunday morning for an event. When strapping the car down you notice a strong smell of petrol. Its that moment that you realise that you ripped a hole in the plastic fuel tank while loading it.
Then you try to empty the tank as you've just put in 20l of fresh fuel at £1.30 per litre and it's now running down the street. You get the tank emptied and it's that moment you remember that you sold your spare tank and the only other one is still in the spares car you have yet to strip, probably another 3 hrs work. At this stage you give up, lock the garage & turn your attention to the 6 pack in the fridge.

 

[Kent]

on a good day you find the leads, the grinder and the transformer are all in the truck
on a bad day one is missing from the above, so you think "well I aint to far from base" and drive back for the offending item. However on return to site you open the grinder box and find you never topped up with any more slitting discs - the one other part you needed and never bothered to check in your haste
More speed less haste

 

[Gavin_d]

You've soldered loads of wires together but forgot to put the heat shrink on first.