Dirty or clean fingernails.....

Max Headroom

Which one are you.?...i'm the former, nails are NEVER clean (cept on holidays)..Do you ,like me like to get stuck in, have no training or skills but like to "investigate" (read "wreck") stuff to see why it works.... Are'nt afraid to get dirty,cold, wet in order to satisfy your mind and save a few bob....i've spent hours making stuff that i could buy quite easily...but didnt...Taught yourself over years, by endless mistakes and headaches...how to cut,weld, fabricate, paint, upholster ..bodge....re-weld....!!I've had so many cars and bikes over the years that i've learned how to do all ov the above, and enjoy immensly, i'll be doing it till the day they put me in the ground....i hope..


Or do you just pay someone to do it.........:)

101sean

Dirty fingernails and ingrained oil in my fingers at home but it wears off when I'm working away.

Volunteering to do the washing up helps to shift the worst of it after a session of messing with Land Rovers!

101sean

Dirty fingernails and ingrained oil in my fingers at home but it wears off when I'm working away.

Volunteering to do the washing up helps to shift the worst of it after a session of messing with Land Rovers!

bbsrs

Latex disposable gloves. Dermititas is a nasty ailment to pick up and it lasts forever.

Popoutman

+1 for decent gloves. Irritation due to old engine oils is not particularly nice at all, and the ingestion of dissolved metals through the skin can cause some long-term problems.

Capri

'Fraid I used to have all that, PLUS painted nostrils from spraying - used oxygen mask but still seemed to get a trail into my nose

Luckily I was never full time at any of it and the spraying only lasted a few years. Use the latex gloves now on the ODD occasions I do oily stuff, and work gloves on the rest.

Anan1

I hate to say it, but it's an age thing. My cylinder head in the kitchen sink days are over.

corktina

i've always done virtually all my own work, preferring to seek advice and then have a go.

Paying someone to do it? In my opinion there are thousands of so-called classic enthusiasts who go to the UK buy a decent car, bring it back here and then just run it like they would any secondhand car with virtually no maintenance at all. There must be lots of these cars which have now got to the point where they are not drivable and are stored away...and what does the owner do?.....go buy another! It isn't really Enthusiasm as I see it

The Big Red Fella

I remembver saying to a guy that got a bodged repair on his classic
what happens when the A pillar falls in?
"Oh ill just buy another"
nuff said i thought spoilt silver spoon brat who hasnt a clue but talks like he does lol!

for me it used to be get stuck in but now gloves & eye protection & proper masks from now on:)

Max Headroom

Anan1 wrote: »

I hate to say it, but it's an age thing. My cylinder head in the kitchen sink days are over.

....Dismantled a fair few Ford engines on the ma's kithchen table in my time...now its the wife's one....:eek:

Lads, the title was tongue in cheek, like most of my posts...its not a poll...:p

serious3

latex gloves all the way these days, been told off once or twice for engine bits in the dishwasher and the kitchen table is my favourite place for valve stem oil seal jobs!

Max Headroom

Yeah..i do admit to wearing rubber and goggles...i've even started using a welding mask too....:P

The Big Red Fella

Nothing worse that getting a piece of steel in your eye!
those silver spoon brats will never know the pain when they are moaning about their wallet lol!

Max Headroom

The Big Red Fella wrote: »

Nothing worse that getting a piece of steel in your eye!
those silver spoon brats will never know the pain when they are moaning about their wallet lol!

Got a piece of angle in the eye once, had to drive meself to a+e...in the snow...with a broken leg from when the jack slipped, ...........:P

Dont know theyre born these wallet classics..............:D

JOS52

Had steel in the eye a few times when grinding and very sore

Altabani

I do my own servicing on my classic car, but always wear gloves. I know guys that leave their classic cars into be serviced and they dont even know what oils are been put into their old classic car engines.

carchaeologist

corktina wrote: »

i've always done virtually all my own work, preferring to seek advice and then have a go.

Paying someone to do it? In my opinion there are thousands of so-called classic enthusiasts who go to the UK buy a decent car, bring it back here and then just run it like they would any secondhand car with virtually no maintenance at all. There must be lots of these cars which have now got to the point where they are not drivable and are stored away...and what does the owner do?.....go buy another! It isn't really Enthusiasm as I see it

They feed the banger racing circuit in the UK very well...

Max Headroom

I look on them as "followers of fashion"...know plenty of them, no interest in classics, no interest in keeping them, when they break they(daddy) buy another one...:rolleyes:....Its funny these guys ( I know) only seem to drive german cars, take yer pick...and would "never" drive a british one....;)

I can understand that there are genuine guys that love their cars but are useless with the tools or health reasons.........i have time for these guys...

Diabhalta

Unfortunately clean for most of the time , but would prefer dirty...

dgt

Nuff said!



As a result of constant working on cars, I have very little feeling through my fingertips, permanently cracked skin and impossible to clean out fully......

Max Headroom

Anyone else seeing skulls.............:eek:


u need to save and rotate the pic for the monkey one....



BTW...how can i never post pictures, just "image"...??