Close call

[Rick]

Okay people, always wear eye-protection when doing armory work... here's why:

I was refitting some foil blades today. Since I use pistol grips, I had to cut the tang of some newly opened spare blades which I've had for a while. I got my trusty Dremmel rotary tool with the cutting discs and began cutting.

Maybe I wasn't hitting the surface right... I don't know... but all of a sudden, the cutting disc broke-away from the tool and practically exploded into my face... hitting my protective work-eyeshields... other peices flying everywhere.

It happened so fast that I did not realize it until it was all over... took me a second to process what had happend... then I turned off the dremmel tool... sat down... and was just stunned... I could have been blinded!

Man... good thing I was wearing eye-protection. It would not have been a good day.

[Bebop and Rocksteady]

One more reason to use italian foils.

[oiuyt]

B&R- And you wonder why people find your posts annoying.....

Rick- Glad you were wearing the right equipment. Same thing goes for whether it's "just" club bouting and plastrons or knickers, or using power tools in the armory. Safety first.

-B

[It]

It may seem a bit much, but I use a face mask with a filter along with my glasses when I use my Dremmel tool to service my weapons. Trust me, there is almost nothing like being stung by peices of fragments on your lips. And also the fumes from dried glue can be a bit annoying, not the mask helps much, but it does a little.

[D'Artagnan1673]

Ok, I am going to start wearing face protection when do that as well.

Actually, B&R has been doing a pretty good job lately .

Just don't digress now

[Bebop and Rocksteady]

[quote]Originally posted by oiuyt:
<strong>B&R- And you wonder why people find your posts annoying.....
</strong><hr></blockquote>

I'm pretty sure the smiley at the end of the post was a pretty good sign that I was being sarcastic.

[135711]

wear one of those miners hats, what about those visor thing-ys, where you pull the visor down over you eyes when you about to drill or someting.

[Methix]

Hmm...I never wear safety glasses. On the other hand, I don't have anything fancy as a Dremmel, I get to use the good old fashioned hacksaw. Not that I doubt my ability to injure myself with it...

[Inquartata]

[quote]Originally posted by Methix:
<strong>I get to use the good old fashioned hacksaw. </strong><hr></blockquote>

Oh---another classical fencer, eh?

[Purple Fencer]

[quote]Originally posted by Methix:
<strong>Hmm...I never wear safety glasses. On the other hand, I don't have anything fancy as a Dremmel, I get to use the good old fashioned hacksaw. Not that I doubt my ability to injure myself with it...</strong><hr></blockquote>

You can still get a metal fregment in your eye from a hacksaw...and it may be a HOT fragment. Unlikely, but possible. I've had it happen (Years ago, when I was in the Air Force...the fragment came off a drill press I was walking by). You do NOT want to go through the pain I did.

Wear your protection.

[peircer]

Rick, Rick, Rick.

I happened to know you were at that armory clinic last fall that Ron Herman gave, and he told you not to put your head over the dremel and then proceeded to demonstrate why (accidently). Don't you learn?

[Rick]

Peirce:

Cut me some slack, dude... at least I got hit where the protection was.

Kinda like wearing a cup when I fence Don. Now that's another story...