Scary Stuff

[ToyMaker]

OK, to start the "safety" juices flowing, what is the scariest tool (or stuff) in your shop?
The tool that gets my highest level of attention is the one that spins a ten inch piece of steel at 3450 rpm in open air - my table saw. I always use push sticks and wear safety glasses. If I had a meat-cutters chain mail glove I would probably wear that too .
The stuff that raised my hackles the highest was the quart mason jar I found tucked away in a corner of my garage when I moved in. It is labeled cyanide! Holy S--T! Cyanide! What in the world was the previous guy doing with that?

robotic regards,

Tom
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[lsfoils]

Hi Tom,
I have read that most serious wood working injuries occur as a result of table saws. These are probably the most prevelant free standing machines in use except maybe the drill press. I am familiar with an individual who is single handedly trying to make table saws (among other machines) safe. Check out this site:

http://www.sawstop.com/video.htm

I think there are a lot of people out there that would use his device if they were aware of it.

Cyanide?! Hardening steel? Man.

As far as the most dangerous tools go, I can't think of a specific (they have all scared the cr*p out of me from time to time) But what sticks in my mind are the older tools we scrounge or inherit. A lot of these never had proper guards or the guards have been removed. Lost a heart shape chunck of scalp (it grew back) about the size of a dime to an old drill press. The spindle was exposed in a couple of places up through the the head casting and I leaned in a little too close to look down the hole. More embarassing than painful but that machine has a clear plastic guard on it, now. -Doug

[Klox]

My phone! I always makes blunders on jobs or even scrapping them after a conversation with a difficult client, now seriously the cut off machine & the bench grinder.....

Klox

[HomeCNC]

Mine is a 3" fly cutter spinning at 2000 RPM on my mill!

[kong]

My father has a 14" radial arm saw, with a 2' cross cut, 4HP motor. Scares the hell out of me every time!
I find his Planer/thicknesser rather scary too, pushing that wood over the rotating blades, hmm, what if the wood has a knot through it and snaps?!
edit, just realised you guys are gonna tell me to use a push stick aren't you!

[WOODKNACK]

That is unreal! I watched a couple of those videos on the web page and was shocked how quick that works! They should have that on all saw sold! Just unreal, I have never seen anything like that before!

[HuFlungDung]

That is amazing. I suppose the legal implications are huge, if the sensor system ever fails from old age or something.

Did anyone ever see that spoof on MAD tv about the "titanium work gloves"? The guy demonstrates how tough these gloves are by trying to cut his hand with a power saw, except, it does cut him. After the fact, then he realizes "These are my gardening gloves, my titanium gloves are over there on my toolbox".

[Rekd]

Originally posted by HuFlungDung That is amazing. I suppose the legal implications are huge, if the sensor system ever fails from old age or something.

Yeah, I hope your cell fone doesn't ring.

Pretty interesting stuff.

'Rekd

[turmite]

Toymaker if you look down in my sig line you will now understand why it's there. I had a serious injury back in Jan. because of the absence of my mind. I think complacency is the most dangerous thing in the shop and I have the scars to prove it.

Isfoils thank you for that link. That is the most impressive piece of safty equip I have ever seen. I am in the wood business and I use push sticks but I would sure like to have those on my bandsaw and table saw, and if applicable the jointer.

I wonder if that thing would work on a router bit??

turmite

[cbcnc]

Hey, don't forget to factor in the cost of hot dogs for testing every once in a while. Or maybe Brat's on the BBQ and cycle the stock before it gets too old.

Chris

[foamcutter]

I worked several years ago in a fab shop that had this huge drill press with two smaller ones on each side. One day I'm drilling on a small one and the guy next to me on the huge one makes the mistake of wearing gloves while using the drill press. He instinctivly reached in to brush some chips off while the drill was still running with his gloved hand. He now only has four fingers on that hand, the bit caught his glove thumb, wrapped it up around the bit with his thumb inside. The drill never even slowed down as it pulled his thumb off. Very serious injury. I NEVER wear gloves around a drill press, or anything else that spins for that matter. Ron

[Rekd]

Originally posted by cbcnc Hey, don't forget to factor in the cost of hot dogs for testing every once in a while. Or maybe Brat's on the BBQ and cycle the stock before it gets too old. Chris

Mmmm, how 'bout some Louisiana Hot Links..

I was working at a shop where a manual mill guy got the sleeve of his smok wrapped around the spindle of a knee mill and twisted the smock sleeve so tight around his fore-arm that it seperated the mussle tissue. Several skin grafts later he had limited use of his arm.

Another guy in the same shop inserted a pem nut precicesly in the middle of his thumb. (Imagine the x-ray). He almost refused to go to the doctor, wanted to stay and work the rest of his shift.

'Rekd