[TheForge] Fatal acccident

[Andrew Vida]

On 11/18/14, 2:37 AM, jerry Frost wrote:
> Just do the arithmetic Bruce. Figure a 9" buffing wheel on a 3,450 RPM
> motor. My math might be off I'm doing it in my head but I get about 8,130
> feet per second surface speed, that's faster than most rifle bullets. What
> part of a human chest is going to stop that? How much momentum does a 6 oz.
> knife blade have moving at 8,130 ft/sec? I'm thinking it'd defeat plate
> armor if it hit end first, either end. Don't think of it as a "thrown"
> blade, think of it as one fired out of a gun.
No Jerry, it is about 92 mph, which is plenty fast as it is.
> There is only ONE thing I know of that CAN make wire wheels and buffs
> reasonably safe and that's operator technique.
Yup.