Don't be stupid... (Somewhat graphic pic)

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Chris
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My stupidity cost me a trip to the Dr for an x-ray and 7 stitches today. I'm lucky I didn't break my hand.

There was a fan that we suspected had a bad motor. The fan shared a housing with another backup fan. The air from the running backup fan was causing our fan to slowly free-wheel, which we needed to stop. This is what happened when I tried to stop the freewheeling fan shaft, and smashed my hand between a pair of channel locks and the fan housing.













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SUPER GLUE, electric tape, jim beam in that same order!!! glad ya didnt loose a finger honestly!!!
 
fwiw, I was 'feeling' for air flow one time on a transmission cooler and let one of my fingers find its way between the guard and fan blade.... that shit hurts.
 
bet that had a few cuss words along with it! OUCH
 
oooowwwww!!! what was the diameter of the fan? cause that took some force!

hope it heals up good for ya!
 
transman731 said:
best way to check that is to take a rag and put it on the radiator and see if it stays there.
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if anyone was wondering i was fishing my hand behind the sheetmetal there....rear mounted coolere and they're blowers not suckers hahahaaa

(my bad on the derale.... yes pun intended!)
 
89wrangler said:
bet that had a few cuss words along with it! OUCH
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Not really. I was wearing some thin cut resistant gloves, and didn't even notice I was bleeding until I had the fan stopped and we were going back to the starter to read the motor. I noticed my pliers were getting sticky, looked down and saw some goop, then noticed the goop was red. Took my glove off and the rest is history.
Infamous1 said:
oooowwwww!!! what was the diameter of the fan? cause that took some force!

hope it heals up good for ya!
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It's about a 30" fan. It's enclosed, kind of like a big ass air handling unit fan in an HVAC unit.
 
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