Great Day! :(

toolman · 03-22-2008, 05:40 PM

Welp, I hope everyone else's day is going better than mine. I just got home after spending four hours in the emergency room because a u-joint cap exploded while I was driving it out, sending several metal splinters into the palm of my left hand.
I dug one out but the other two are too deep. After all of that, the doc told me they weren't worth going after, gave me a tetanus shot, and sent me home.
Work should be a ton 'o fun next week!

mitch_mckee · 03-22-2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by toolman

Welp, I hope everyone else's day is going better than mine. I just got home after spending four hours in the emergency room because a u-joint cap exploded while I was driving it out, sending several metal splinters into the palm of my left hand.
I dug one out but the other two are too deep. After all of that, the doc told me they weren't worth going after, gave me a tetanus shot, and sent me home.
Work should be a ton 'o fun next week!

I spent four hrs in the E.R this morning myself. Breathing issues. Just pisses me off 'cause it's so nice a day here that I long to get that boat out on the watter and attack some fish.

After defying death several times after my open heart surgery on 7/25/2006 at the tender young age of 50, I appreciate just being here to complain.

Fish better look out next week!

texnmidwest · 03-22-2008, 06:31 PM

Sounds like no fun at all! You two take care of yourselves. Toolman, I am just glad those metal fragments didn't go into your eye! Easier to deal with a bum hand than a bum eye.

Heal up quick guys!

TexasT · 03-22-2008, 06:34 PM

Hope you get better soon, cap'n. Yargh!

AKHunter · 03-22-2008, 08:16 PM

Damn Toolman how did you manage to explode a u-joint cap ? I have changed 100s of u-joints over the years and have never had that happen. I do get statrled when I have to heat those stupid GM plastic injection/ retained u-joints prior to removing them. All that heat makes the grease inside go POW! some times, happened twice just the other day. Let me know so I dont do what you did !

Heal quickly !

DWARREN123 · 03-22-2008, 09:24 PM

Was it a GLOCK u-joint?

KABOOM

jerry · 03-23-2008, 07:25 AM

Hope your feeling better soon.

I use the Hyd press at work for those silly things. A large vise will suffice too.

toolman · 03-23-2008, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by AKHunter

Damn Toolman how did you manage to explode a u-joint cap ? I have changed 100s of u-joints over the years and have never had that happen. I do get statrled when I have to heat those stupid GM plastic injection/ retained u-joints prior to removing them. All that heat makes the grease inside go POW! some times, happened twice just the other day. Let me know so I dont do what you did !

Heal quickly !

The guy had been driving this thing with a bad u-joint for months and one cap had cracked up the side and started cracking across the face. When I tried to drive it out, it shattered along the edge of the crack.
My palm is nice and blue this morning, alomg with being stiff and sore. I think what caused the most trouble was, a piece hit a major blood source which caused the center of my palm to swell up like there was a large marble under the skin and it started squirting like a little geyser-really freaked the customer out, as he was standing there when it happened.

two-70 · 03-23-2008, 05:52 PM

ouch i can imagine how it must feel, get well soon

Blackrock · 03-23-2008, 06:00 PM

Gloves?

billy · 03-28-2008, 08:38 PM

cap'n tool,
are ya gonna get a hook? huh? huh?
say yes !
we need a cap'n with a hook!

toolman · 03-28-2008, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by billy

cap'n tool,
are ya gonna get a hook? huh? huh?
say yes !
we need a cap'n with a hook!

How 'bout an M-44 bayonet? Yaaarrrgggghhh, comrade!

03-22-2008, 05:40 PM	#1
toolman Mr. Fixit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: abilene,tx Posts: 5,562 Blog Entries: 22	Great Day! :( Welp, I hope everyone else's day is going better than mine. I just got home after spending four hours in the emergency room because a u-joint cap exploded while I was driving it out, sending several metal splinters into the palm of my left hand. I dug one out but the other two are too deep. After all of that, the doc told me they weren't worth going after, gave me a tetanus shot, and sent me home. Work should be a ton 'o fun next week! __________________ Don't be messin' with my gun!

03-22-2008, 06:31 PM	#3
texnmidwest Listen to yur Inner Hippo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: South east Wisconsin Posts: 3,357	Sounds like no fun at all! You two take care of yourselves. Toolman, I am just glad those metal fragments didn't go into your eye! Easier to deal with a bum hand than a bum eye. Heal up quick guys! __________________ "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (If all else fails play dead)

03-22-2008, 06:34 PM	#4
TexasT Do you have my stapler? Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Everywhere you want to be. Posts: 4,119 Blog Entries: 16	Hope you get better soon, cap'n. Yargh! __________________ I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze. Love is a riddle.

03-22-2008, 09:24 PM	#6
DWARREN123 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: BETWEEN TN & KY Posts: 773	Was it a GLOCK u-joint? KABOOM __________________ Have a nice day!

03-23-2008, 07:25 AM	#7
jerry Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 10,870 Images: 9 Blog Entries: 1	Hope your feeling better soon. I use the Hyd press at work for those silly things. A large vise will suffice too. __________________ I'm a down home back woods redneck

03-22-2008, 08:16 PM	#5
AKHunter Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Alaska Posts: 899	Damn Toolman how did you manage to explode a u-joint cap ? I have changed 100s of u-joints over the years and have never had that happen. I do get statrled when I have to heat those stupid GM plastic injection/ retained u-joints prior to removing them. All that heat makes the grease inside go POW! some times, happened twice just the other day. Let me know so I dont do what you did ! Heal quickly !

03-23-2008, 05:52 PM	#9
two-70 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ponca city, oklahoma Posts: 1,778	ouch i can imagine how it must feel, get well soon __________________ What Would Jesus Do ????? Just Ask Him.

03-23-2008, 06:00 PM	#10
Blackrock Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SE Arizona's Gila Valley Posts: 254	Gloves?

03-28-2008, 08:38 PM	#11
billy spiritual counselor Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca Posts: 11,925 Images: 9 Blog Entries: 145	cap'n tool, are ya gonna get a hook? huh? huh? say yes ! we need a cap'n with a hook! __________________ internet yards and real yards are completely different units of measure.