namesray
Platinum Member
recently i have been seeing a few "saftey" topics here at tbn and have looked at only a few. i have always been a "safety first" kinda person and do most of my work accordingly. sure there are times i just "grab a tool and go" , but most of the time i try to set a job up safely and use saftey equipment.
like i said above "most" of the time i use saftey gear. when i think the job requires it. but when you read "where safety glasses when using 'hammer', 'lawn mowers', 'spray tools', 'greasing equipment', 'oil changes', 'filling a tire with air'" how many of us actually do it with those jobs. i will admit i do it for a couple i listed, but not all.
to my point. who would think to where saftey glasses when putting air in a tire? or checking a tire's air pressure?
the other day i had a soft tire on my gmc truck. the tires are fairly new and this particular tire had gone soft about 2 weeks eariler. so i figured slow leak somewhere. i took it off the truck, and proceded to examine it. it was holding air for 2 weeks so this was going to be tricky to find. plucked all the stones out of the tread and began to look at the surface for punctures. found a couple suspect areas, so i got out the water/soap spray. began to go over the areas. nothing.
i then went to the bead areas and went around the entire rim, both sides. nothing
next was the valve stem. nothing.
to make a long story short, i ended up going over the entire tire 3 times, and i mean every area, every square inch. nothing.
my friend was driving by and i flagged him down and he stopped. he came to where i had the tire laying on its side, valve stem up (as i had just sprayed the valve stem with soap). told him i can't find the leak. the valve stem cap was off and soap in the valve stem. i was knelt down by the tire and my friend was knelt down by the tire, kinda leaning over it. he rubbed his finger over the valve stem to change up the soap bubbles. for a second nothing happened. but all the sudden something shot up, grazing off my friend's cheek and then i heard it hum right past my forhead and hit the top of the metal roof on my tractor shed. after we had a moment to calm down, my friend said "found your leak!"
the entire guts of the valve stem popped out. almost took an eye out on either one of us. VERY LUCKY it didn't.
anyway, just a reminder to stay safe. if this post helps just one person one time, it was worth it. i know i will be putting on my saftey glasses all the time now when i am working, and be even more saftey aware with other things.
like i said above "most" of the time i use saftey gear. when i think the job requires it. but when you read "where safety glasses when using 'hammer', 'lawn mowers', 'spray tools', 'greasing equipment', 'oil changes', 'filling a tire with air'" how many of us actually do it with those jobs. i will admit i do it for a couple i listed, but not all.
to my point. who would think to where saftey glasses when putting air in a tire? or checking a tire's air pressure?
the other day i had a soft tire on my gmc truck. the tires are fairly new and this particular tire had gone soft about 2 weeks eariler. so i figured slow leak somewhere. i took it off the truck, and proceded to examine it. it was holding air for 2 weeks so this was going to be tricky to find. plucked all the stones out of the tread and began to look at the surface for punctures. found a couple suspect areas, so i got out the water/soap spray. began to go over the areas. nothing.
i then went to the bead areas and went around the entire rim, both sides. nothing
next was the valve stem. nothing.
to make a long story short, i ended up going over the entire tire 3 times, and i mean every area, every square inch. nothing.
my friend was driving by and i flagged him down and he stopped. he came to where i had the tire laying on its side, valve stem up (as i had just sprayed the valve stem with soap). told him i can't find the leak. the valve stem cap was off and soap in the valve stem. i was knelt down by the tire and my friend was knelt down by the tire, kinda leaning over it. he rubbed his finger over the valve stem to change up the soap bubbles. for a second nothing happened. but all the sudden something shot up, grazing off my friend's cheek and then i heard it hum right past my forhead and hit the top of the metal roof on my tractor shed. after we had a moment to calm down, my friend said "found your leak!"
the entire guts of the valve stem popped out. almost took an eye out on either one of us. VERY LUCKY it didn't.
anyway, just a reminder to stay safe. if this post helps just one person one time, it was worth it. i know i will be putting on my saftey glasses all the time now when i am working, and be even more saftey aware with other things.