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ProfessorM · 02-24-2005, 04:11 PM

I second the thought of no gloves around machinery. I have been in the machine shop for almost 30 years and have seen some nasty accidents. I have got plenty of stitches to prove it. A fellow worker was just polishing 1" dia. shafts with sandpaper in a lathe and like a fool he was wearing gloves, he did not want to get dirty. Well when you sand the outside of something never grab your hand around the part being sanded because the paper can bind up or grab itself. If possible hold both ends of the paper to sand or polish that way you can let go when this happen's, and it will happen. He was sanding at high speed with gloves and using one hand around the shaft. Disaster struck and the end result was he pulled his finger off, not sliced it off but pulled it right off his hand when the glove got caught in the sandpaper. I saved the finger from the bed of the lathe but they could not reattach it. Needless to say he lost the finger. Machinery is very unforgiving so don't cut corners and rush. I know a little wood lathe doesn't look very dangerous but they bite. Just a little food for thought. P.M.

02-24-2005, 04:11 PM	#3
ProfessorM Uncle Remus iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Lakeville Ma. Posts: 14,773	Gloves I second the thought of no gloves around machinery. I have been in the machine shop for almost 30 years and have seen some nasty accidents. I have got plenty of stitches to prove it. A fellow worker was just polishing 1" dia. shafts with sandpaper in a lathe and like a fool he was wearing gloves, he did not want to get dirty. Well when you sand the outside of something never grab your hand around the part being sanded because the paper can bind up or grab itself. If possible hold both ends of the paper to sand or polish that way you can let go when this happen's, and it will happen. He was sanding at high speed with gloves and using one hand around the shaft. Disaster struck and the end result was he pulled his finger off, not sliced it off but pulled it right off his hand when the glove got caught in the sandpaper. I saved the finger from the bed of the lathe but they could not reattach it. Needless to say he lost the finger. Machinery is very unforgiving so don't cut corners and rush. I know a little wood lathe doesn't look very dangerous but they bite. Just a little food for thought. P.M.