TellicoTurning
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In another forum a thread was started about wearing turning smocks.. naturally, I made some smart aleck remark about not wearing no stinking smock....
Well, I think I got my comeuppence.. Thursday I glued up some woods to use as peppermill blanks... I cut them Saturday and started turning them round. Yesterday morning I woke up with my left eye swollen almost closed, my left check and jaw swollen and puffy and the right eye all puffy and both eyes running like faucets, and a major rash on my upper chest and arms.
One of the woods I used was a wormy maple and parts of it was a little soft and punky, so I used 1/2 a bottle of thin CA to try and stabilize it. Another of the woods was several pieces of Muirapixuna, a member of the legume/pea family and according to the internet, known to cause skin irritation. I can attest that it evidently does big time.
At first I attributed the swollen eyes to the fumes from the CA, I usually move to the doorway my shot and apply CA in large quantities outside the shop. I did Saturday, but not immediately, I know I had some fumes well up in my face before I went to the doorway.
I was turning in my normal attire, tee-shirt, levis, dust mask and face mask. I also had my DC going full tilt and turning right in the mouth of the intake hose. But still hand sawdust over my entire chest and arms.
At any rate, it looks like I need to start wearing some sort of protection that will keep the sawdust and sanding dust from wicking through my tee-shirt and keep some wood sawdusts off my arms.
Muirapixuna (and whatever it's other names might be) is a nice wood, close grained, with good colors ranging from a golden tan to a dark brown and with good grain patterns, but if I use it again, I'll definitely need to use more caution. So should everyone else using this wood.
Well, I think I got my comeuppence.. Thursday I glued up some woods to use as peppermill blanks... I cut them Saturday and started turning them round. Yesterday morning I woke up with my left eye swollen almost closed, my left check and jaw swollen and puffy and the right eye all puffy and both eyes running like faucets, and a major rash on my upper chest and arms.
One of the woods I used was a wormy maple and parts of it was a little soft and punky, so I used 1/2 a bottle of thin CA to try and stabilize it. Another of the woods was several pieces of Muirapixuna, a member of the legume/pea family and according to the internet, known to cause skin irritation. I can attest that it evidently does big time.
At first I attributed the swollen eyes to the fumes from the CA, I usually move to the doorway my shot and apply CA in large quantities outside the shop. I did Saturday, but not immediately, I know I had some fumes well up in my face before I went to the doorway.
I was turning in my normal attire, tee-shirt, levis, dust mask and face mask. I also had my DC going full tilt and turning right in the mouth of the intake hose. But still hand sawdust over my entire chest and arms.
At any rate, it looks like I need to start wearing some sort of protection that will keep the sawdust and sanding dust from wicking through my tee-shirt and keep some wood sawdusts off my arms.
Muirapixuna (and whatever it's other names might be) is a nice wood, close grained, with good colors ranging from a golden tan to a dark brown and with good grain patterns, but if I use it again, I'll definitely need to use more caution. So should everyone else using this wood.
