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> using those machines around kids who treat the shop as a playground Definitely the biggest hazard in my comprehensive school tech. classes. Little makes you

> using those machines around kids who treat the shop as a playground Definitely the biggest hazard in my comprehensive school tech. classes. Little makes you move to the other side of the room faster than people throwing random pieces of scrap at a powered disk sander, and I'll never forgot the noise an LED makes when shorted across a 230VAC wall socket (with a locker key jammed in the earth pin for good measure...). I sometimes wonder how the only injuries I got from those years was a minor soldering burn (dropped the iron) and accidentally impaling the palm of my hand with a screwdriver.

cr0sh 9y ago
The high school I went to in the late 1980s was originally the city community college; the campus was pretty large. The woodshop was located in what was termed the "industrial arts" building (the building essentially was a high school "techshop" all on its own; small engine repair, drafting, autoshop, woodshop, metalshop, etc - all under one roof, three stories tall). Well, the woodshop itself had equipment that was decades old; some of the equipment was quality stuff dating from the 1930s. We had this huge surface planer machine that could take wood 6 inches thick and 8 feet wide; it took a good 10 minutes for it to come to a complete stop after powering it up. A friend of mine wanted to see if it would plane 1/2" in one pass off a 2x6; the instructor of the class had no problem with trying it, either! It did. You wouldn't believe the sound it made, but it didn't miss a beat doing it.