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angle grinders and idiots
If your stupid like me you'll pick up an angle grinder with out using a mask or googles as I wear glasses already, think to your self "I'll just clean that up before I cut my self on it...so I've just got back from A&E with an appointment for the eye specialist tomorrow to dig the mild steel from my cornea.
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I have got bits in even with goggles. Unless I am running the grinder so slow ( Mine is varispeed ) that there no chance of sparks traveling then Gogs are always on..
I don't know how some peeps manage to be so lucky for so long without them. TT
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Chin up Phil....
you know its only a matter of time before one gets you........... how many times have you dabbed a bracket on with out a mask and not caught a flash its a percentage game really ..... and its all about making the odds in your favour. the only way to win is wear those gogs and mask everytime..... cheers les g. ps: hope their is no problems tomorrow |
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When mine happend, It was in there for a week before I was sure there must be something wrong.
The doctor spotted the rust ring before the metal!! ( it was from a ford ) 2 Years ago I was refitting the Mondeo front pipe. I was smearing firegum on the joint with my arm stretched horizontaly from the side of the car to the exhasut. somehow some gum flicked all that way, sideways, right into my eye! I don't know what's in it but it stung. And after 2hrs checking and washing it had not cleared and my eye socket was all swolen and puffy.. The hospital could only give a local anasthetic and flush flush flush. There was no record of the product on their HAZARD system and beein boxing day the manufacturer was closed.... Eye drops for 2 weeks cleard it all up. TT
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Angle grinders are bloody dangerous machines, especially when you're playing with the 9" models. An old mate of mine (now sadly passed on) once had a 9" grinding disc explode in his face, smashes his jaw in seven places and knocked most of his teeth out. It exploded because it was a 110 unit but some prat had put a standard 13 Amp plug on it, Fred plugged it into 240V and away it went, instead of 6000RPM it went up to something stupid like 36000RPM and BANG!
Having said that I'm as guilty as the next eejit of using grinders without proper protection "'cos I wear glasses for close work" and I'm basically to lazy to go and get the proper mask. Not to self, go out tomorrow and buy a proper face mask! D.
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Another guilty party here ........... Quite often rely on my glasses for that quick little job
Mental note to self .... Walk 4 paces & get the full face screen hanging on the Argon bottle, every time !!?? Not very pleasant having a piece of metal fragment lodged in the eye ......... Same story from me, having to have a piece of alloy swarf sugically removed from my eye Has your nose stopped running yet ?? ....... Strange how your nose seems to be attached to the eye Hope you get sorted soon.
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