[TheForge] OT -12v motors

[James Davis]

here a link to Baldor buffers with pictures ...non of them have guards http://www.mile-x.com/baldor-buffers.aspx

Jim Davis
 
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> From: akfrosty at mtaonline.net
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:03:53 +0100
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT -12v motors
> 
> Hmmm, your last post and this one raise a couple questions in my mind. #1 
> Are you really teaching your students to be slow learners?
> #2. I agree, a butter fingered person carrying an anvil in the shop may well 
> be a contender for most dangerous.
> 
> More seriousness now. Don't push into the wire wheel or buff unless you have 
> to to get to the inside of a feature. Wire brushes and buffs work best at 
> the ends of bristles, it's where the fibers carrying compound of wires don't 
> slide across the project. If you push hard enough to bend the wires, they 
> lay flat and don't cut, same for a buff. A heavy touch will also load the 
> grit in a stone wheel reducing it's tooth while rolling the edges of the 
> stock.
> 
> Guards on rotating machinery are good ideas but I've had things come through 
> some guards and the ones nothing can get out of make it really hard to get 
> things in through meaning you are working at BAD angles of attack. Learning 
> to work out of the potential ballistic tragectory(sp?) is your best bet. As 
> an added safety measure, especially when others are in the same area is to 
> put something behind you like a locker to act as a scatter shield.
> 
> Jer
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu>
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 1:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT -12v motors
> 
> 
> > I'm a slow learner<G>.  I also sometimes teach newbies.  I always (even 
> > only doing demos) call the grinder "(bring on a full voice, rich in 
> > harmonics, that can be heard from far away, think Perry Como singing, and 
> > then someone drops an anvil on his foot in the middle of a long note) the 
> > single most dangerous piece of equipment in the blacksmith shop." 
> > Certainly there are more dangerous pieces there, but the grinder/buffer is 
> > the one most likely to get away from a person; before he/she can get away 
> > from it<G>.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> > [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Frost
> > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:29 PM
> > To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT -12v motors
> >
> > That's true indeed Grover but screwing up work faster means you learn 
> > faster
> > so it's a trade off.
> >
> > Andy has a solid safety point; faster means more damage if the work gets
> > away from you. SO stay out of the plane of rotation. Make it a matter of
> > reflex when operating wire wheels, buffs and belt grinders even wheel
> > grinders. If you just never stand in the plane of rotaion you never have 
> > to
> > remember which when it's okay or which tool might get you a new piercing 
> > in
> > a bad place.
> >
> > Jer
> >
> 
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