[TheForge] Fatal acccident

[Andrew Vida]

On 11/17/14, 3:22 PM, peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
> Open wheels are handy, but asking for it.
> At least put a solidly mounted bar across the back of the wheel and a 
> tool rest, even if it's low, in front.
> And stay out of the plane of rotation!
What?!  A TOOL REST?!!!  Never. Never. NEVER.

A tool rest on a buffer is going to get you injured or dead.  I damned 
near took a finger off when I went to a wire wheel to which someone has 
placed a tool rest.  I was tired and not thinking clearly about the 
danger and worked around the rest.  Next thing I knew, both hands were 
instantly at my side, the word GONE.  My right index finger was opened 
like a can of sardines from just behind the finger nail in a 270* spiral 
that ends almost at the second joint. I'd severed the artery and was 
spraying blood all over the shop. Marshal had left for the evening and I 
was alone and had to get myself to the ER.  It would have been a whole 
lot worse, too.

Never ever put a tool rest on such a device.