[TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes

[peter fels]

By contrast, there's the advice in Alexander Weiger's book to the effect that;
Real professional blacksmiths just squint when grinding.
Never been able to find it since, but somewhere i have an old metal working book from WW1 showing 
row on row of worker's faces, wearing the glasses they were wearing at the time of the accident.
Each one of them has a missing or damaged eye, showing from behind the shattered lenses.

On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:

> Oh that SUCKS Pete! I've never had anything but floating dust get me through 
> both a shield and glasses. I've had lots of shrapnel bounce off my chest to 
> the inside of the shield and into my face but never both. Heck, my poly 
> carbonate bifocals are rated safety glasses with good coverage.
> 
> Thankfully they've come a long ways with safety glasses and face shields. 
> New style glasses fit so there's almost no gap to get through. Shields are 
> starting to over lap the head reducing that gap and some have much sharper 
> curves passing your face so crap tends to either hit the side of your head 
> or skate around and fall out.
> 
> Stories like yours scare me and I've been using these things since I was 
> maybe 8-9.
> 
> Jer
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "peter fels" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes
> 
> 
>> Good policy;
>> I once was using a die grinder with glasses and a face shield.
>> A fragment of steel still managed to embed firmly in my iris
>> and it took me 1/2 an hour in front of a mirror to tease it free.
>> I went blind in that eye for a couple of days from the trauma
>> and the vision in my other eye was too poor to drive to a doctor.
>> It was unpleasant and i was impressed by the number of excitable nerves
>> were in my eyeball.
>> 
> 
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