[Zedn]

I spent Sunday making brackets and installing the steering column. I was using the following high risk tools: Air cut off wheel, angle grinder, arc welder, drill. At 7pm i was trying to force a 3/8 tap into my tap wrench when i slipped and put the tap the whole way under my thumb nail. It ripped the nail out of the nail bed so it was jammed half out and half in. I went to the hospital and was told i needed plastic surgery (lol hollywood hands!). This morning i went to my GP for a second opinion and he just gave me a local and cut it off. Lucky it was just the tap that injured me and not one of the dangerous tools. Kind of ironic that it was a basic hand tool.

Got me thinking has anyone given themselves a serious injury working on their car? Apart from the regular burns when welding, small cuts and skinned knuckles?

I have to take a couple of days of the build which sucks cause im just starting to get somewhere.

Liam