Scary Stuff

[Ken_Shea]

"I think complacency is the most dangerous thing in the shop and I have the scars to prove it."

I agree,and here is another in a single word.

FAMILIARTY, which quickly leads to the above.

We should run machines like we drive cars, defensively!

[rcrabb]

My friend is half the man he used to be, because of his table saw.

[avsfan733]

honestly our cnc scares me the most because of the student programmers.....you never now if somethings going to come flying or break a bit (its an old knee mill style unenclosed table)

[vacpress]

the story about a smock getting caught in the spindle scares me.. i am often working with my lathe\mill when i have no business being around heavy equipment.. 4am, with a beer in 1 hand, a manual control in the other, etc.

my lathe really scares me. i can imagine my tool getting caught in the 3-jaw chuch and the whole mess flying right at me.

i also cant help but imagine the 10" radial blade on my mitre saw comming loose and comming right at me...

these visions actually plague me. ive gotten to the point where i wear my goggles even when drilling 1/8" holes in plexiglass....

[JFettig]

spinning end mills scare the crap out of me, they like to grab things like nothing. that and my lathe with some horribly mounted steel or really big peices scare me the most. bandsaw, lol, well no probs there. at school the carbide chop saw scares the crap out of me, especially after I broke that bran new blade cutting some steel:O

Jon

[Cold Fusion]

Bandsaw
Drill Press
Table Saw

[Zagroseckt]

Well.
The scaryist pice of spinning hardware i use on a comment bases would have to be my drimmels.
Ever sice i broke a bit cutting through the side of a case the thing makes me cringh when i here it baug down for whatever reson.

The bit broke rickeshade off the desk flew straight up grased my forhead leaving a scratch and imbeded itself in my celing about half way. It's still there stuck in a 2x4 or somthing i cant seem to get it loos with pliers.

All tho nowadays im scard of ANYTHING with a belt.
A few years back i was helping my stepfather move ans set up a large genorator. (were not talking one of those lawnmore moter deals) This thang used a desil engen called a and i quote "Screaming jimmy"
it's loude!

I digress.
When we had moved the thing into place and wor starting to try and fire it up i was moving around it to stere clear of the exaust line. As i had reached the front of the engen my foot got cought on a root or somthing and i lost my balance. i found my self falling face first into the busnes end of a flywheel. i grabed for and cought the safty rails or so i thought right as i stood up my stepfather who was on the other side of the genorator and oblivious to my posision tried to crank it up. (And the dam thing sucked my left hand into the gering for the waterpump.)

I'ts amazing how time slows down when somthing like that hapens
i destinkly remember exaclty how many turns that thing made befor i got my hand free. i remember thinking to my self "It might be a good idea to scream about now" <-That is exacly the words that whent through my mind.

When he herd me scream he puld the ignition wires loos emeditly. i got my hand free only to realise a few seconds later that i was missing half my left index finger.

Wonce the emergincy trip was over and all was sed and done i am half a finger short and have a frozen joint on the finger next to it. a second more and id be missing 2 fingers

When we got back from the hospital i MADE my step dad go out and hit the starting on that thing one more time. would you belve it hadn't made one full revolution befor it roard to life.... that think could have taken off every finger on my left hand if it had done that!

So now whenever i'm around anything with a belt i subconchesly hold my hands behind my back
Bad eyeballs is one thing (yes im leagily blind) but loosing use of your hands and bad eyeballs is one hell of a nightmare.

put me into one hell of a funk for over a year that did. i had to lern how to type all over again.

my right hand still out runs my left most of the time.

[Rekd]

This isn't shop related, but it's scary/stupid/funny..

'Rekd teh stupidity may end up being painful after all...

[Ken_Shea]

A picture is worth a thousand words they say, and it would take every last one of them to describe that idiot.

Unbelievable
I would have at least put one more brace back at the rear bumber

[ToyMaker]

he's got two sticks in there now. isn't that like a belt and suspenders?

robotic regards,

Tom
= = = = =
I would live to study, and not study to live.
- - Francis Bacon

[vacpress]

so... that guy is welding the full gastank, right?

[IJ.]

One of my first jobs in an engineering shop was at a company that made pneumatic rams.

I didn't see this first hand but saw the aftermath and the repairs made to the factory so believe it as it was told!

Seems they were fitting up a large ram for testing, 6 inch ID by 9 feet long.

The shaft was from memory 2 inch dia by 10 feet long stainless steel.

"Someone" forgot to put the nut that holds the piston assembly to the shaft on, Testing consisted of cycling the ram with line pressure for a set time, usually with the ram horizontal (except for the very big units that were tested in a vertical rack)
You can imagine the shock when they hit GO and the shaft "left the building" through the roof!

They told me of the sheer panic while the awaited reentry!!! !

As luck would have it the shaft turned 90 degrees on it's way back down and landed on the roof causing an exit hole and a huge 10' long dent in the tin roof!

Really enjoyed reading this thread .(good to see it's not just me that has a "BrainFart" from time to time.