I was doing some welding underneath my F100 today, and visibilty is quite limited when wearing a welding helmet. The previous owner went a little wild with some crappy undercoating and covered the whole undercage with the s**t and I thought I removed enough, but I guess I was wrong. After a couple of minutes of welding, I felt my arm getting kinda toasty, but thought nothing of it. I then caught a glimpse of light out of the corner of my eye, and by this time my arm was screaming hot, so I stop welding, flipped up the faceplate and HOLY S**T, not only was the truck on fire, but the undercoating had melted and was dripping onto my arm, burned through my jean jacket and searing my skin.
I wasn't quite sure which one to put out first, but luckily I always keep a fire extinguisher close by when welding or cutting. I was pretty lucky by the looks of it, as the whole back of the cab and front of the bed was scorched by flames and damn hot. The trucks a '67 with the fuel tank behind the seat, sitting against the back wall of the cab.
I guess I didn't remove enough of the undercoating!

See what you get by having a Ford? [img]tongue.gif[/img] Actually I suck at working on vehicles, at least you know how! Err if you dont burn them up! Hey at least it wasnt the OTHER vehicle! ;) Hope the damage wasnt too bad Animal!

The trucks my latest resto, so it wasn't really an issue. Did more damage to my arm than the truck.

Ouch, hope you haven't done any serious damage to your arm Animal!

My dad once blew up his Ford Zephyr (it was underpowered at 2.3L, threw a rod and burst into flame) and had to call out the fire brigade!

[ 08-02-2002, 08:37 PM: Message edited by: Epona ]

Thanks for the concern. My arm will hurt for a while, and they'll be a nice scar, but I've done worse!

Sounds like a painful lesson learned re undercoatings! I hope your burns aren't too bad Animal :(

Whoa dude! Hope your arm isn't too bad man.

<font color="snow">*stays away from the bottoms of cars*</font>