Craig Clark on wed 6 feb 02
Time to morph the story a bit and still keep it within the paramaters of
the thread, so.... one late afternoon, at a small SouthEast Texas
Universtity I was standing outside the clayroom door carrying on a
conversation.
Suddenly a rather loud scream came from the otherwise peaceful room. I
lurched through the door and looked across the room to see my buddy (name
withheld to protect the innoccent) who was sitting at a lockerbie, pale as a
ghost staring at his outstretched hand. A needle tool was hanging from the
hand, it had passed clean through.
It turned out that my buddy hadn't been paying attention to the pot that
he was attempting to trim the top off of because he was flapping his jaw
with his neighbor (name also withheld.)
He was throwing off the hump and apparently the tool had drooped down
just enough to catch, he let go, and it somehow flipped over (point up) came
around with the hump and found its way through my buddies hand. Not to
worry, a good cleaning, tetnus shot and he was good to go.
Lesson learned was that it is wise to focus on the point of action when
using a tool. Regardless of wether it has rapidly moving parts or not.
Craig Dunn Clark
619 East 11 1/2 st
Houston, Texas 77008
mudman@hal-pc.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "artimater"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: angle grinders
Dale wrote:
-Stories like these are common with high-speed power tools of all kind. As
someone who sells power wood carving tools I see/hear these all the time.
One thing I ALWAYS tell people about using such tools that can do awful
damage in a split second is...... NEVER, NEVER TALK TO ANYONE ( OR LET
ANYONE TALK TO YOU) WHILE YOU ARE USING THE TOOL.
My sistr-in-law school Art teacher has a similar rule about using the
paper cutter! :>)
regards,
I've been using power tools forever....I was known as "Don and the
Sawtones".....I still have both eyes, ten fingers and toes.....Dale is
right; you don't talk while using a machine that can take your arm off....I
always fixed my concentration on the exact point where the tool bites the
material....The only time I got caught was when I was routing a
round-d-round on a large "1"....I had my hands as far away from the blade as
possible, but I was also flapping my big flappy yap with Chris, a friend of
mine...In half a split second that router yanked the workpiece 48" around to
where my fingernail was.....I still have one crooked fingernail and I'm
lucky to have that....Yep it was Chris's mouth that got me in trouble.....Or
maybe it was the 6-pack I had for lunch...The boss liked Weller, we went for
Coors back then...
That was nothing compared to the time this guy was sawing aluminum
without coolant on a table saw.....The little carbide tips on the blade got
too hot and all turned loose at once....He caught them from the top of his
head to his waist...No beer required for that piece of stupidity....
Oh yeah,....High power drills can mess you up pretty fast also....Ask
Jeff....He was 100' in the air on a ladder when his hammer drill gave him a
reverse mohawk.....I was 36' up a ladder when a hammer drill nabbed my long
curly red hair and whacked me in the head....Actually the drill got the
worst of that one when it hit the concrete...
Just to get on topic....One time we had a nasty red raku glaze that
quietly insisted on liquifying before all the other glazes even got hot....I
yanked a big bowl out of the kiln and slung it around toward the sawdust bed
where ny friend Karen waited with a bucket to cover it up....Through the
raku shield I happened to see the glaze slosh up and turned the bowl
sideways just in time to catch it as it became airborn....Karen didn't know
how close she came to catching it with her face.....We don't use that glaze
anymore
My father used to say "It's the dull knife that will cut your finger
off"....It helps to know your tools and pay attention...
Ya'll be careful....You can eat your clay but don't drink the glazes
PAX,
Rush
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and snakes handy"
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