Safety Reminder

by **Legion303** » 14 Jul 2008 6:27

If you're using power tools (i.e., Dremel, bench grinder) to make your picks, make sure you use full coverage shatterproof goggles. I just got a shard of metal in my eye which blew in UNDER my goggles, but it would have been much worse if I hadn't been wearing them. So the moral of the story is "use safety goggles every single time you turn on your Dremel."

-steve

by **Archive555** » 14 Jul 2008 6:35

Well, that wasn't what I was expecting in Pick-Fu.
But a great moral to the story:
Make picks, go blind

by **ratyoke** » 14 Jul 2008 9:12

yeah safety glasses or a face shield. I had a hot chip of aluminum go over my glasses and into my eye while using my small milling machine. I wasn't wearing safety glasses, just my normal glasses. It really sucked. Hurt for days. I always wear a face shield now.

by **MacGnG1** » 14 Jul 2008 10:03

yep... my dad taught me, u always gotta wear goggles.

also, when cutting would use a pusher (he almost chopped his finger off on a table saw)

SO REMEMBER KIDS... ALWAYS BE SAFE

by **wolfie** » 14 Jul 2008 10:08

always be safe is a good monical, but there IS a limit to how safe you can be in most situations, just be smart and take things slowly and never rush even if your in mortal danger. and never, NEVER be afraid of the equipment you workaround/with.

by **criminalhate** » 14 Jul 2008 11:15

Archive555 wrote:Make picks, go blind

I thought it was play with yourself, go blind.......

Safety goggles are an amazing invention. Always ware them when grinding/cutting anything. Doctors picking metal shards out of your eyes is not a fun thing to try.

by **Archive555** » 15 Jul 2008 1:34

criminalhate wrote:
Archive555 wrote:Make picks, go blind

I thought it was play with yourself, go blind.......

What!?

Who ever said such a thing?
I'm not losing my sight yet...

by **ToolyMcgee** » 15 Jul 2008 4:31

wolfie wrote:always be safe is a good monical

+1 for effort. It always pleases me to see people trying to be more descriptive. I couldn't help a little good natured teasing on this one. Forgive me Wolfie. You rock.

Full goggles/face shield is the only way to keep out all foriegn bodies. I have had steel bristles from a pnuematic brush ricochet off my cheek, off the inside of my standard saftey goggles and stab me in the eye. Eyepatches are cool, but depth perception is cooler.

by **raimundo** » 15 Jul 2008 6:30

working for a locksmith long ago, I wear prescription glasses, in those days safty glasses weren't around. really. this was early 1970's
my prescription lenses were pitted from the bits that flew off the wire brush that was used to deburr the keys. there were a lot of pits in those glass lenses.

by **Monkeywjcr** » 15 Jul 2008 12:03

If you are tempering metal wear safty glasses because metal will explode if cooled to fast.

by **wolfie** » 15 Jul 2008 12:04

ToolyMcgee wrote:
wolfie wrote:always be safe is a good monical

+1 for effort. It always pleases me to see people trying to be more descriptive. I couldn't help a little good natured teasing on this one. Forgive me Wolfie. You rock.

Full goggles/face shield is the only way to keep out all foriegn bodies. I have had steel bristles from a pnuematic brush ricochet off my cheek, off the inside of my standard saftey goggles and stab me in the eye. Eyepatches are cool, but depth perception is cooler.

no problem =D i dun mind a bit of light hearted teasing now and then ;D

by **prag** » 15 Jul 2008 13:42

I had two such experiences. One was with the metal splinter from my key cuting machine. Usually the metal splinter willbe loose in the eye. Sort of just 'floating' in the liquid. This piece of metal splinter was lodge into my eyeball. Doctor said that if I had left it longer it could have rusted and ruined my eye forever.

Lesson learnt is that the googles go on everytime the machine goes on. This is even if I'm just cheching the cuts of a key on the machines.

by **Olson Burry** » 15 Jul 2008 14:17

I think it was Pyro who said:

"Always, always ALWAYS, wear your safety glasses. I've been to the hospital enough times getting s**t picked out of my eye so.. ."

It's good advice.

This happened to me the other day whilst grinding the end with the hole off a hacksaw blade:

It kinda stuck and burnt them a bit. Cant see much but if it had gone in I dare say I would've noticed.

by **Jaakko** » 16 Jul 2008 1:25

Monkeywjcr wrote:If you are tempering metal wear safty glasses because metal will explode if cooled to fast.

Excuse me? Totally not true.

by **ulliv** » 16 Jul 2008 6:31

prag wrote:I had two such experiences. One was with the metal splinter from my key cuting machine. Usually the metal splinter willbe loose in the eye. Sort of just 'floating' in the liquid. This piece of metal splinter was lodge into my eyeball. Doctor said that if I had left it longer it could have rusted and ruined my eye forever.

Lesson learnt is that the googles go on everytime the machine goes on. This is even if I'm just cheching the cuts of a key on the machines.

I've had at least dozen metal splinters in my eyes(most of them when I was wearing protection goggles) so they don't protect you always.
Most of them just float but then the splinter is hot, it will burn into your cornea. The longer you wait before yo go to the doctor, the deeper it will go.
Really fun to put your head in a jig and watch as the doctor takes a sharp pick and comes towards your eye with it. I thought I feared the dentist but having been to the eye doctor twice I now fear him more.
In the good old days we used to take sticky-notes and try to scrape the splinter off with the edge. :twisted:

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