[TheForge] Fatal acccident

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

You've a good argument Andy.
My question is. are you better off with a localized injury to the hand 
than having your arm  sucked in and wrapped around the wheel?
I work both ways and am ambivalent.
In any case, any tool rest or back bar needs to be constantly readjusted 
and locked down for minimal clearance to the wheel face.
On buffers. I retired my buffing wheels and converted to 3M radial 
bristle brushes. They are safer, as fast or faster and there's almost no 
cleanup of buffing compound. Worth the extra expense.

On 11/19/2014 8:30 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> 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.
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