[s-cars] Shocks and inserts - it's time to change 'em.

[Cody Forbes]

Vincent Frégeac wrote:
> I never had or heard bad experience with compressed springs but I've
> had my share of colleagues parting out with some of their beloved
> body parts using diverse machinery. So I became kind of over zealous
> when it comes to safety.

I, however, have seen with my own eyes a compressed spring (on car) go awry 
with my colleagues hand between the lower perch and the spring. Not pretty. 
In his case he was lucky that the lower perch in this case was a flat one, 
it didn't have a rim like our Audi perches do. He broke 3 fingers, but did 
not part with any. Had it been a perch like ours he would definately have 
lost all 4 fingers from the first joint on.

Just a reminder to be careful out there guys, fingers are rather easy to 
loose. Just a week ago a friend of mine lost half a finger while cleaning 
his motorcycle chain. A few months ago a friend of a friend lost multiple 
fingers while rolling a customers car by pulling on a wheel spoke. My 
brother-in-law lost his entire ring finger to an alignment rack (DON'T WEAR 
JEWELRY WHILE WORKING - LEAVE YOUR WEDDING BAND INSIDE!!!!!!). Hell at 
Champion Racing we used to joke with the crew of Derek Bells #9 S4... so 
many crewmembers were missing digits that we applied a small graphic 
lettered "Digit Racing" after the #9 on the bumper.

-Cody Forbes
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