Respect Mr.Bosch

The interior of the Baja was painted, badly, with some kind of red paint over a crappy black over a decent white.
I wanted to remove the red and black so I could key up the white for spraying.
Copious amounts of cellulose thinners wasn't doing it so out came the chemical paint stripper.
I used some large rubber gauntlet gloves to protect my little pinkies from the nasty flesh-eating goo and set to work.
Once the paint stripper had done its work I used a wire wheel on Mr.Bosch the grinder to get back to nice, shiny metal.














Now hindsight is a wonderful thing.....
With hindsight I should have removed the thick, clumsy rubber gloves once I'd stopped using chemicals.
With hindsight I should have used a pair of leather gloves to work with the grinder.
"Should have" and "did" are two very different things!
You can probably see where this is going?
Allow me to elaborate.

New, bitey wire wheel

Catches hold of thick, clumsy rubber glove 

Result = Sudden, painful reminder from Mr.Bosch 

Somehow the rapidly spinning wire wheel caught the bulky glove and ripped off one of the fingers.
In that split-second of realisation I glanced the floppy flying digit out of the corner of my eye and noticed it was empty.
Surprisingly all my extremeties were intact even if the glove was toast.

Cat-like reflexes.....and dog-like stupidity!

In summary: spinny wire wheels are great for taking paint off old car bodies, it turns out they're even better for taking sizeable bits off my finger.