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Please keep the forum busy

WorldClassAccident 30 Sep 2012, 5:41pm
i have smashed my ankle so am in hospital for at least a week. please keep the forum busy as i am already bored
Paul L 30 Sep 2012, 6:18pm
Ouch!

Get well soon, Paul.
Mister Towed 1 Oct 2012, 1:24am
Ooh, bad luck (again?)

Just finished a set of shifts so I've got four days to get on with my Spyder. I might even post some pictures...
jonesey 1 Oct 2012, 6:52am
As a newcomer, I feel obliged to enquire as to the irony/appositeness of your username :wink:

I can keep up a stream of pointless questions about the car I'm not building yet, if you like...
mikmiglia 1 Oct 2012, 7:27am
Sorry to hear that mate, i take it was a moutain bike accident ?
oxford1360 1 Oct 2012, 8:10am
Bad luck

That's what happens when you try to stamp panels into place. I hope you get better soon.

I am taking a covert week off. It has to be covert otherwise DIY will creep in.

I should have some photos of lots of green parts by Wednesday afternoon providing Oxfordshire doesn't get too much rain.
WorldClassAccident 1 Oct 2012, 4:54pm
Not sure if this will work from the phone but here was my ankle on saturday morning
[img] https://picasaweb.google.com/m/viewer#search/115660383436295169415/Ow/5794236532242713538[/img]
GazDavies 1 Oct 2012, 5:32pm
Get well soon mate, you will be back working on the car before you know it. Here is a quick preview of G46 no 1 after some of the changes I wanted to be made
davecymru 1 Oct 2012, 5:50pm
WorldClassAccident wrote:
i have smashed my ankle so am in hospital for at least a week. please keep the forum busy as i am already bored


Unlucky matey!

Are you going to the restoration show at the Bath & West in a few weeks?
seanick 1 Oct 2012, 9:58pm
http://m250.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/Seanick_bucket/104034610_photobucket_147223_.jpg.html?o=0&newest=11
Here's my latest tweeks to relieve your boredom.... Aluminium fairings to go over the suspension and rack gaiters.. Made a copy for the other side, and then found the car is a different shape on the other side!
http://m250.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/Seanick_bucket/104034610_photobucket_147222_.jpg.html?o=1&newest=1
And also the totally unconnected rad cap made from some brass boat fittings
Psycho pops 1 Oct 2012, 10:05pm
Different shape either side, your not alone there...
seanick 1 Oct 2012, 10:10pm
Its only 3/4"......built '81. You would never notice until you go near it with a tape!
Paul D 2 Oct 2012, 9:16am
Hospitalized.

Hi WCA,

I am relatively local & have 'pm'd' you yesterday?
Hope you will be feeling better soon.

Cheers

Paul D.
WorldClassAccident 3 Oct 2012, 8:52am
From Ow! to less ow!

Now just twelve weeks sat on my arse :-(
oxford1360 3 Oct 2012, 8:55am
Even I can tell that that does not look right. That must have hurt. I hope it heals quickly.
WorldClassAccident 3 Oct 2012, 9:00am
I liked the unnaturally high instep on the first picture.

I like the fact they managed to fix some of it even more. You know it was serious when you spend 3.5 hours in surgery and then 13 in recovery and wake up to the doctor telling you "It is really god news Mr Clark, I think we have saved your foot"

Think you have saved it!?!? I didn't even know I was going to lose it.
garyh 3 Oct 2012, 9:01am
Is that called baseball stitching? That looks 'orrible... Do you have to have a cast? or one of those Stormtrooper boots?
WorldClassAccident 3 Oct 2012, 9:08am
Dressing and back slab cast at the moment to let the swelling happen.

I also have a very impressive fracture blister (I had to google them too) so the like to have the ability to cut away the dressings and have a look when ever they need to in case the blister bursts or starts to rot.

In two weeks I get given a full cast, apparently the platstic storm trooper boots don't give enough support (i have one in the attic fron last time I broke the ankle) and the after 8-12 weeks of that they decide whether I can walk or the should fuse or amputate. Fuse is current favourite with the doctors, walk and MTFU is my preferred option.
Mister Towed 3 Oct 2012, 9:15am
garyh wrote:
Is that called baseball stitching? That looks 'orrible...


I dunno, I quite like the look of baseball stitching. Would look great as detailing on tan leather seats. Not sure I'd want it holding my foot on though...
garyh 3 Oct 2012, 9:25am
Did you ever see the Audi TT, when they first came out? It was a special edition.
froggyman 3 Oct 2012, 9:53am
Oh s**t! I didn't expect that with my breakfast!! That must have hurt. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Quite a lot of g46 planning time me thinks.

I found a rotten pit board in the garage last week and thought I had broken something as one leg disappeared in a cloud of rotted timber and the engine crane I grabbed to stop myself tipped onto me. Luckily for me a footballers sponge and a cup of tea and I was back in action again!