The dash is painted, an artist I’m not, but if I do say so myself, it came out pretty darn good! More on that in my next post, time is short and wanted to get this story out there today. If I had this on video it would probably be worth 10K.
I was at the garage waiting on one of my crews, had a little time to kill, so decided I was going to polish up the headlight switch trim plate before putting it back in the car. Got suited up, safety glasses, mask, gloves etc. and fired up the buffer mounted on my bench. For those of you not familiar with it, it is a piece that tapers down to a very sharp point and looks a lot like a knife. Shortly after starting, I had a momentary lapse of concentration and in the blink of an eye, the buffer ripped it out of my hand and threw it who knows where. My garage is 60′ long 15′ wide with a 24′ ceiling and 18′ overhead doors at each end. Instinctively, I closed my eyes when it left my hand and had no idea where it went, stranger though was the fact that I never heard it land or clang when it hit something. I spent the next 30 minutes looking for the GD thing, even going so far as to lower both doors which were open at the time hoping that I would find it up on top of the door. Turns out it did not go in the direction the wheel was turning, it went completely around the wheel flew backwards missing me, flew the length of the car without touching it somehow (thankfully) and right out the back door, landing in the weeds 20′ — 30′ outside of the door. I never would have found it if not for the fact the sun was reflecting off of the newly polished piece.….. Lesson learned, I think from now on the small parts are going to just be done by hand.
I was lucky not to get impaled by that flying missle, but all’s well that ends well, and BTW I really wasn’t drinking until much later at home sitting there thinking about the whole thing.
till next time.….
