buffer safety tip

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Rick Leeson

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At the ABS school many years ago I learned to never fully tighten the buffer wheels. Only finger tighten them. This will let wheel slip on shaft if it grabs instead of throwing work from your hand.

Like any technique, you need to find your own operating window as to how tight you keep the wheel, how hard you press the knife into the wheel.
 
I do the same thing on the belts of my drill press. Slips instead of swinging the work. I'm still carefull with both the drill and buffer.
Lynn
 
Hey Guys...

Not sure if this makes any difference...
But...

I run my buffers backwards to most buffing setups...

All of my buffers are custom made and the wheels spin up, not down like the average buffer...

When I buff, I buff on the top of the wheel. If anything slips it tend to grab the object away from me and throw it into the opposite direction...

When I buff knives, I stand slightly to the side, so if it grabs and spins my hand around the wheel, I have less of a chance of getting hit with the knife..

A little to understand,, but it works for me. Granted I'm not polishing knives on a regular basis, I still have 20 + years of experience on buffers.

The worst thing I got hit with was a horseshoe,, and in the face.. Seen stars for a few minutes and ended up with a black eye, even through a pair of goggles and a shield. Horse shoe got under the sheild somehow and blow the lens out of the goggles...

ttyle

Eric...
 
OUCH!!!

Like I said before, any tool can hurt you. One of the worst cuts I ever got in my life was from a freshly sharpened chisel, in the palm!! :(

The most important thing is to PAY ATTENTION to what you are doing!
 
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