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If you take sandpaper to a part turning on the lathe and make the mistake of closing your hand around it, you can lose your arm. On a drill press a chip can rea
by ganzuul 5y ago
If you take sandpaper to a part turning on the lathe and make the mistake of closing your hand around it, you can lose your arm. On a drill press a chip can reach out and grab your clothes and pull you in. Heavy parts can come loose and fly through the air. Hardened tools can break and send shrapnel flying like bullets. A hand's width of unspported stickout of a long bar from the back of lathe's spindle bore can turn into a meat tenderizer, spinning too fast for the eye to see. The last thing you heard before hopefully waking up in the hospital was the sound of a helicopter...
It's the gotchas that get you. You can do it safely and people do all the time. But mistakes happen, and then you better be lucky or good.
- pasabagi 5y agoI guess I worry sometimes because my shop is in an old industrial building, and nobody else works there, so I'm always thinking that if I was injured and unconscious, I could definitely die. But then, the problem with machining is it's unavoidable. There's usually no other way to make the part. I'd be interested to look at statistics, but I always have the feeling that the table saw sits basically at the top of the pyramid when it comes to chopping bits off, then it's followed by all the other woodworking stuff (spindle moulder comes to mind), then you get the metalworking stuff.