~1991, age 16ish, whilst kneeling on the floor with a gas welding rig welding a joint. I was pausing and felt a burning sensaiton on my foot. ( Remember that whilst keeping a good eye on the torch, you should also remember where the filler rod is. )

~2003, age 28, whilst welding a rear arch in my precious sapphire. Paused for a few moments. Then noticed the paint on the rear wing still bubbling. Opend boot to find flames from a pice of damping foam. Shouted to the wife in panic for a bucket of water.

~Last month age 36, whilst welding the Roadster rear roll bar. Paused to admire my handy work. Very impressed. Then noticed smoke, from the hand towel I use to clean of the oily muck from my hands. And the associated flames. It was thrown out of the garage and patted down with my gauntlets.


I have 3 CO2 extinguishers in the garage, but none of them is easy to get to... Must be more careful!

1/2 a lifetime ago a mate was gas welding a patch on the underside of a car and I was standing fire-watch for him. He finished the weld and a few seconds later there was a blood curdling scream from under the car followed by a thud and muted groan..................turns out he'd finished the weld and laid the filler rod down so he could turn the torch off, hot end of rod burnt through his overalls and jeans and underpants and got him right on the jap's eye:eek: , hence the scream. The thud and groan were from him headbutting the hot weld when he sat up after the burn, he had a cracking red stripe across his forehead for a few days, I opted not to see his other injury:p .

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he he he he....brill;)