Warning: use eye protection

[ARF-GEF]

So as the title already said this post is aimed at warning all of you to wear glasses /eye protection not only during drilling but druing lock assembly/disassembly as well. I was luckily wearing eye protection when a rampant c-clip hit the glasses in the middle, so if I hadn't been wearing one I would have gotten a major head start in a pirate contest.

So learn from it beginner or more experience lock enthusiasts: safety goggles might be uncomfortable or look funny, but they assure a brighter outlook for you eyes.
(sorry for the low quality puns. )

If we are here: I'd suggest to wear a mask if you drill or mill a lot, a fine powder of heavy metals like copper or iron is very bad for for your lungs. Again you might think only pussies do that but believe me after the problem's there you would rethink that.

[ARF-GEF]

So for those who are concerned about looking silly:

http://blu.stb.s-msn.com/i/17/F6C730D393D94C2ECBFCEF3A08A6_h400_w225_m2_bblack_q99_p99_cNXZvuSeQ.jpg
http://showstudio.com/img/images/74601-74800/74725_320n.jpg?1346349006

I mean they might or might not look kinda silly and I would never wear the clothes from the photos (:D I think the guy's outfit looks ridiculous, but I'm not to fashion concious) , but here is the proof that it's acceptable to wear them and please do so.

[Muskedunder]

I have learned my lesson when it comes to eye protection. two times in two weeks i had to go to the hospital to remove metal splinters from my eyes when i worked in a car body shop, and one of the times they actually used a drill in my eye so they could get all the remains out. Always wear eye protection.

[MrWizard]

I have a unprotected eye story that you may find amusing or not. A long time ago before I became a locksmith I was on a scaffold installing drywall on a ceiling. Everything was going fine and then as I am nailing upward I felt something hit me in the eye. I stop while I rub it pulling outward on the eyelid looking down to try to see if whatever it is would just fall out like you would normally do. I thought a piece of whatever was out so continued to work.

As the day went on I could still feel like there was something in there and was burning making my eye water so I tell the boss I got to go someplace to get this checked. So off to the hospital I go. Doctor looked at it and said he thinks he sees something in there and said he is going to put in a dye to see it better so now I am freaking out. He puts on his magnifying headgear drops in a yellow dye and turn on the huge operating light. He looks for a few minutes and say's WOW!

That is not what you want to hear when a doctor is looking in your eye! He then say's wow again and calls the nurse around to his side of the table and gave her the headgear. I am about to jump off the table at this point. He told her take a look at at this! She stared in it and said oh wow that is really odd! I said what the hell is it! He smiled and said there is something in there alright but what is so strange whatever it is has cut a opening that looks exactly like a old style skeleton key hole! I said WHAT!!!! He said I have never seen anything like before but it looks easy to remove what ever that is as it isn't very deep and is in the white part of the eye.

He clamps something on my eyelids so I can't close them then he tells me to look to the left and DON'T MOVE MY EYE! I said ok. He then picks up what looks like a long needle on a handle and is going to stick it in my eye, I said you have got to be joking what the hell are you going to do with that! He said don't move your eye I am going to lightly try to lift that object up out of that KEYHOLE so I can grab it with something. I said ok. He scrapes at it and can hear metal to metal noises he said I'm almost done then touched my eye with a small piece of cloth looked at it and said I got it. I said thank god! What is it, he said looks like a piece of galvanized metal. I said ya a drywall nail head! Washed out the eye with antiseptic slaps a pirate patch on it and said leave it on there until morning.

So there you go I have a skeleton keyhole scar on the white of my eye! What are the odds of that happening! So it seemed only appropriate I take that as a sign to become a locksmith after that. So do yourself a big favor and wear eye protection unless you like to have the doctor look in your eye and WOW and ask for others to come look to say the same thing!!!

Richard

[GWiens2001]

Richard,

Argh, matey! Ye be a drywallin' pirate locksmith with the scars to prove it. At least they did not find a key in that keyhole.

Gordon

[beancurd]

I have a really cheap pair of goggles that I wear when using my dremel or doing anything that can have splinters flying about. It has loads of dinks in it where something has flown up in my face and hit the goggles! Wearing them has meant I don't have a horror story to share with ýou all!

[GWiens2001]

I am a mechanic by trade now. With everything flying around all the time - brake cleaner, people grinding metal, drilling plastic, working with pressurized fuel and refrigerant, using compressed air to blow things out of an engine bay, and so forth, I am astonished at how few techs in the shop do not use safety glasses. I won't even walk around the shop without them.

Gordon

[phrygianradar]

We use pressurized air to blow off the machines that I work with. Our company makes trail mixs and roastes nuts and other things that we then bag and ship. I used to have to be all over my crew to wear their goggles when using the air, until one day one of them caught a flying habenero peanut in the eye. After that happened I have never had to remind anyone. Fortunately there was no permenant damage to his eye, but he was burning for quite a while! Youch!

[YouLuckyFox]

@phyrgianradar
I have had the same thing happen. I was blowing aluminum chips out of my hand with an air hose; unfortunately my hand was in a cupping shape which caused the chips to be projected towards my face--the aluminum chips had coolant on them which burned my eye. I was lucky to not need a doctor visit, though. It was a rookie mistake and now I'm sure to wear eye protection whenever a tool is in my hand.

@ ARF-GEF's fashion photos, I didn't see that until now! Werk it!

[atticRR]

I wear glasses, cause im blind, and many many times have had something ricochet off of them while working on some project. EVERY time that happens I am thankful that im a four eyed mutant, all the more likely to avoid being a one eyed mutant.

[phrygianradar]

I wear glasses, cause im blind, and many many times have had something ricochet off of them while working on some project. EVERY time that happens I am thankful that im a four eyed mutant, all the more likely to avoid being a one eyed mutant.

I have been hit in the eye by flying debris while wearing my glasses. It is unprobable but very possible to become a three eyed mutant by mistaking reading glasses for safty goggles. I force myself to where goggles over my glasses, because I don't want to take any chances! So I guess that makes me a six eyed mutant, Ha Ha!

That said; anything to protect your eyes is better than nothing. But if you are cutting metal or doing anything even kind of heave duty, why chance it? Grab the goggles!

[GWiens2001]

Don't just use them only if you are cutting, grinding, working on things under spring or mechanical pressure, or working with chemicals, but if anybody is.

I always wear safety glasses when I am in the shop (I am a mechanic) because other people may be working with such things. Have had metal removed from my neck as another tech was hammering a bearing race nearby and a chip flew about two meters and stuck in my neck, I embedding itself under the skin. People spraying brake cleaner and having it get redirected or missing the part they are aiming at is an everyday occurrence. Safety glasses are not an option in my view.

Gordon

[phrygianradar]

Don't just use them only if you are cutting, grinding, working on things under spring or mechanical pressure, or working with chemicals, but if anybody is.

I always wear safety glasses when I am in the shop (I am a mechanic) because other people may be working with such things. Have had metal removed from my neck as another tech was hammering a bearing race nearby and a chip flew about two meters and stuck in my neck, I embedding itself under the skin. People spraying brake cleaner and having it get redirected or missing the part they are aiming at is an everyday occurrence. Safety glasses are not an option in my view.

Gordon

Amen, brother Gordon! Testify! +1

[fgarci03]

Don't just use them only if you are cutting, grinding, working on things under spring or mechanical pressure, or working with chemicals, but if anybody is.

I always wear safety glasses when I am in the shop (I am a mechanic) because other people may be working with such things. Have had metal removed from my neck as another tech was hammering a bearing race nearby and a chip flew about two meters and stuck in my neck, I embedding itself under the skin. People spraying brake cleaner and having it get redirected or missing the part they are aiming at is an everyday occurrence. Safety glasses are not an option in my view.

Gordon

Gordon,
First of all, I'm sorry that it happened to you, as it's something really dangerous being it in the neck. And I'm glad it wasn't anything serious...


But....


I can't stop imagining you getting pierced by it, then removing it with your bare hands, and before bleeding out, using gun powder from a bullet you happened to have in your pocket and cauterize your neck! Then SPIT on the piece of metal and throw it to the floor with a ROAR!

GO JONH RAMBO!


Here in Portugal we have a saying that is something like: "Safety died of old age." I couldn't agree more with it. I many times forget to use safety equipment, but it's now a tendency each time less frequent.
These things don't jusp happen to the other guys. It happens to anyone, so be prepared.

[GWiens2001]

Actually, I removed it with a neodymium magnet. At first, it was cool, because the metal was trying to get to the magnet, and would cause my skin to rise up. But as the piece had sharp edges, it cut its way back out through the skin to the magnet.

And I am no John Rambo.

Gordon