angle grinders and idiots

[Talonmotorsport]

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.

[twinturbo]

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

[les g]

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

[twinturbo]

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

[Davey]

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.

[Bonzo]

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.

[AshG]

last year i had all my safety glasses, gloves overalls on when grinding. the grinder snatched come out my hands through the glove and my skin hit the floor smashed the disc which then exploded on the floor and come back up to bite my face.

end result hole in glove badly cut hand smashed safety goggles and gouge out of my forehead.

since then i have started using my air grinder more and more purely due to the fact that if you drop it the thing stops unlike the electric one.

one thing i can say is if i didn't have the goggles on i would have been one eye short

[aerosam]

Reformed character here - some years ago I had to cut off the bottom ball joint from my capri. Same old story, no gogs, metal in the eye, surgical removal etc.

Since then I use a full face mask every time, I have one that has a guard that goes right under your chin that catches and rebounding sparks from getting under the shield. It wasn't cheap but personally I don't want to put a price on my eyesight.

[flyerncle]

I had the same encounter as Davey,s friend with a large angle grinder with the exception that it was the correct voltage and I was lucky enough to be wearing the right gear,full shield gloves and a hat.
The only thing damaged was my pride and a near soiling disasater.

Build safely out there,the machines are not dangerous only the user's.

[Balidey]

I tend to use the wrap around shades type safety goggles.

I too have had to go to A&E to have a metal splinter removed from my eye. I was under my car cutting out an old manifold stud and had my goggles on. Finished the job, got out and stood up, lifted my goggles up and onto my head and in doing this a shower of swarf fell out of my hair and a bit landed in my eye. How bloody unlucky is that?