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Just a quick photo to remind everyone to be carefull no matter how experienced you are. I looked up for just a split second as my son entered the shop. In less time than I could even acknowledge. I had a catch on a nearly finised blank. Only harm was to the blank and the edge on my skew, but it could have been bad. Please give things your FULL attention and don't try to rush anything.
 

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Looks like an explosion.... Thanks for the reminder. Stuff can happen in fractions of a second.
 
Great point! I only have my wife and dogs to worry about. I tell the Dogs and LOML to "Please don't bother me when I'm operating a power tool." Well, at least the Dogs listen.
 
Landon, glad you're ok. I can startle easily and have yet to get my wife or son to look and see what I'm doing before out calling to me or or God forbid touching my shoulder or something like that. I guess I need to rearrange my shop so I face the door or something.
 
Wow that's a heck of a catch!! Glad you are safe. Can you share what exactly happened?? That is a really nasty PIC.
:eek::eek::eek:
 
Glad you weren't hurt , Landon .
This is why I won't even turn on my lathe without my wearing my FULL face shield . I know some of you don't want to hear this again but it's so important it must be said .
I have had blanks catastrophically self destruct , and if I had been wearing nothing or just safety glasses , I would have had to take a trip to the ER .

Play safe !!!
 
I'm guessing you turn "mandrel-less".

There are some advantages to the support a mandrel provides. I have never ruined a brass tube!!!
 
My Siamese cat climbed up my back like a tree trunk the other day, mid-CA finish application. That could have been bad.
 
Landon, glad you are ok.
And to the rest of you guys, just listen to these incidents, it's not a joke you cna come and see my face shield just by using it when I am weed eating and you'll see what kinds of scratches it got. It only takes a second a many days of discomfort.
I am thinking for those of us that are not facing the door youmay want to think of putting a bright red or olored light bub that can be controlled by switch, so your loved ones can turn on and off ,should thye need to get your attention. this way youdon't loose the light where you are working and you don't have to take your eyes off of what you are doing.
 
phillywood said:
Landon, glad you are ok.
And to the rest of you guys, just listen to these incidents, it's not a joke you cna come and see my face shield just by using it when I am weed eating and you'll see what kinds of scratches it got. It only takes a second a many days of discomfort.
I am thinking for those of us that are not facing the door youmay want to think of putting a bright red or olored light bub that can be controlled by switch, so your loved ones can turn on and off ,should thye need to get your attention. this way youdon't loose the light where you are working and you don't have to take your eyes off of what you are doing.
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Good idea, but put it on a motion sensor, so when they come through your door, it does NOT require them to DO anything for the light to go on, announcing them.
 
Sheesh. These reminders are always good for me. Brings me back to earth. There have been some vivid reminders the worst being the fellow who died from burns in his shop a couple months ago. I replenished my water bin for used CA and BLO rags.
 
Bree said:
Wow that's a heck of a catch!! Glad you are safe. Can you share what exactly happened?? That is a really nasty PIC.
:eek::eek::eek:
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Yes Ed, it was between centers.
I had a VERY sharp tool(skew)
Glanced up, and at same time most have roated the tool a bit.
Corner dug in and cut throught the tube like butter. You all see the result.

At 3000 RPM I guess there was a very small(ok zero) chance of pulling the tool back. Luckily I had a good grip on the tool and it did not go airborne.
 
Good to know that you are ok, My face shield is thrashed from incidents where a blank had reached catastophic failure one of the worst sent shards of wood across my two car garage and embedded pieces of it in a matress
 
Poor little Peacock blank... Landon, Glad your ok. Ive never turned between centers but have had acrylic blow up and hit me like rock salt. Not fun. I cant imagine what this could have done.
 
For some 18 years I was a private investigator working with many major insurance companies. You can not even begin to believe the 'accidents' that I had to work.

Many were explained by the 'injured party' to have happened because some fellow employee/family member/friend, etc. decided to come in and either throw something on the floor that scared the individual, or would even slip up behind them and goose them in the side, etc. Results were quite often catastrophic to say the least. Had quite a few resulting in death!

If only I still had my photographs I could post them and let them tell the story. I will state that it is very dangerous to be in or around a fork lift is being used in any of the Big Box stores on the opposite lane from which you are shopping ... do you ever look up at the top of the storage racks and see the netting to "prevent" what the industry refers to as 'push overs?' I still cannot understand their idea of putting killer objects like air compressors, vises, toolboxes, etc. up there! Ouch, big time headache!!!

I have a bell on my door that is impossible to open and not ring the bell. Heck, the idea above about a light is a good one, but don't let it be the main light. A loud buzzer is cheap and easy to install using a light beam switch like the 'safety beam' across most garage doors. Be sure to install it high enough that the family dog, or cat, doesn't trip it all the time. DAMHIKT!

BTW, glad you were not injured by the skew or the blank and it's now deadly edges. :eek:
 
[I have a bell on my door that is impossible to open and not ring the bell. Heck, the idea above about a light is a good one, but don't let it be the main light. A loud buzzer is cheap and easy to install using a light beam switch like the 'safety beam' across most garage doors. Be sure to install it high enough that the family dog, or cat, doesn't trip it all the time. DAMHIKT!

BTW, glad you were not injured by the skew or the blank and it's now deadly edges. :eek:[/quote]

Well, I hav severe hearing loss and if I am going to be around the lathe it'll be very loud so buzzer won't work, and for normal hearing person, if you are working at night that some of us do, a buzzer can scare you, if you are not paying attn to it. It can make you jerk. Now, I have seen that idea at Curtis's place and he had it like when his Vacum system got full the red light would go blinking, but he also has a door to the shop that on the top is half galss. he said he locks it when in the shop.
I am thinking with Ed's idea; have a light that would go blinking when someone and even cat coming to the shop will cause it to blink. Not the main light either.
 
Fred:
I was a Workers Comp auditor for a while. I loved it. It was our responsibility to alert insurers to dangerous situations, such as: weak bookshelves over a desk, the path an employee must take through construction or assembly lines to use the staff room and items like that. The employers hated us when we left, if we found something that should be mentioned. They loved us when we reclassified employees and took them off list to be covered.
 
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