WARNING!!! SAFETY FIRST!!!

[88Racing]

Just came across this link from one of my former racing team mates.
Just to give fair warning if you are not used to blood don't click on the link!!!
Title "Warning This is not how to Clean and Lube a Chain!"
http://www.gixxer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=242261

Safety First!

Lars

[cleatus12r]

Wow. Just wow.

Oh, and just "OW" too.

[Jackpine]

More of interest, to me at least, was some of the reactions from other posters.

C'mon, the guy was really doing everyone a service - pointing out a "stupid" thing he did in the hopes that no one else would make the same mistake. And, these posters are going to put him down on this?

Having made my share of stupid moves in the past - which thankfully I survived unscathed, for the most part, I'd like to think I could pass on some advice without being labeled an idiot. If that's not the case, I wish everyone who is so superior, the joy of finding out first hand, the hard lessons I've learned.

Good post, Lars.

- Jack

[88Racing]

Yes,
He fessed up to his mistake.
The other "superior?" posters in the thread should have learn from this and some of them should have put aside their ego's and at the very least offered some sympathy.

Alls I can add is that in all my years experience with chain driven vehicles it a good idea to either have a spare or to manually clean by hand only.

Oh when I seen this post the memories of when I broke both my hands and some fingers when I was 16.
This memory came rushing back. I was blazing a trail through the woods on a motocross bike going faster than what I should have thought I could make it through 2 trees but they were closer than what I thought.

Lars

[ROB281]

holy crap

I bet that was one of those wounds that doesn't really hurt at first, you just sit there & look at it & think "son of a b**ch!"

[Jackpine]

It's amazing how close you can come to dying, without actually crossing the line.

About four years ago, I was trying to climb a wall of boulders at the head of one of the canyons near here. I slipped, fell and beat a rock to death with my head. The blood just poured all over me. It didn't really hurt too much, but I suddenly realized just how close I'd come to something far more serious.

- Jack

[ChuckD]

Did he get his sign?

[Longshot270]

Reminds me of some close calls I've almost had. I use a paper towel and hold the ends when I do that, that way if it catches the paper towel either rips in half or slips out of my hand. Its stuff like this where I dont like working in the engine compartment on trucks either. I'll go from exhaust pipes up because I've been bit by half the engine components. lol

[Power Hungry]

Sadly, one of the guys at the shop I worked at did the exact same thing! Holding a shop rag on the chain while spraying WD-40. The rag caught and sucked his fingers up in the sprocket. To add insult to injury, about halfway around the sprocket, the engine stalled locking his fingers in the 3:00 position on the sprocket. Being that it was his left hand, he couldn't reach the clutch and with pressure on the chain he couldn't get it into neutral.

After we fished him out, the middle and ring finger of his left hand both got pierced through the fingernails by the teeth, while his pointer finger got the tip nibbled but luckily was in between two teeth and wasn't injured quite as badly. Pinky was unscathed. He got lucky because he hadn't tightened the chain yet so the pressure didn't completely shear the tips off. Lost both fingernails and had stitches for a while, but otherwise recovered just fine.

Sometime you just don't think that far ahead and nature reminds you the hard way to be a little more careful. I can't imagine what it took for him to post that knowing full well that the idiots would come out of the woodwork, but hopefully someone will learn from his mistakes and I commend him for taking the time to share that.

Oh... and did I mention OUCH!

[ChuckD]

I was working in a shop where a guy had long hair in a pony tail. He was underneath a Peterbuilt and when the fan clutch kicked in, it sucked his hair up and basically scalped him. My hair hasn't been longer than an inch since then.