Anyone else throw wrenches in frustration?
I've thrown a wrench (actually, a ratchet) exactly once.
I was working on installing my water pump when I was putting my 6.9l back together as part of the '04 head gasket/turbo project. I had removed it after pressurizing the cooling system and finding a leak; needed to redo the gasket/RTV...but, unlike the first time I had installed it, the radiator was in place and I didn't want to remove it, and didn't think to cover the backside with cardboard. I got two bolts started, then went to get two more bolts and my ratchet. I got back to the engine just as the water pump fell to the ground, hitting the radiator on its way down. Well, I THOUGHT I had gotten those two bolts started
I thought that the damage was minimal...then, after looking at the radiator for about two seconds, I saw a trickle of red ELC start to come out of the spot where the water pump had hit the radiator. Yep, $300 down the drain...it took a minute for that to sink in, then I got frustrated/mad at myself to the point where I yelled at the top of my lungs and threw the ratchet away. The ratchet ended up sailing across the sidewalk and into the street...good thing there weren't any cars driving by or pedestrians walking down the sidewalk
No damage to the ratchet, though...I still use it
Just don't do like my uncle did once and throw a wrench through the windshield!
You remind me of a story...one of my colleagues was driving a client to the airport in a Town Car sedan, and he was following a contractor's pickup truck. I guess the contractor had a bunch of tools in a bucket in the bed...well, he hit a nasty bump on the freeway and a wrench came out of the bucket and ended up hitting the Town Car's windshield, right in front of my colleague's face, with enough force to embed itself in the windshield...and sent a few glass shards in to cut my colleague's hand that was holding the steering wheel
I got to the office that afternoon, saw the car parked in the lot right next to the office, and couldn't figure out how in Hades a wrench was sticking out of the car's windshield until someone told me the story...