clothes on fire

An apron isn't a gaurentee you won't get burned. I set the big toe of my sock on fire once grinding some L6.
 
It looks pretty cool if you turn the lights out!!! :)
If it happens try to keep a camera close by. We'd all like to see the pictures!

C Wilkins
 
Not counting welding and cutting, the only time I've done it was while cutting a stack of re-bar with a gas powered chop saw. Set the whole lower leg on fire. Definatly go with cotton, even if you get a flame up, it's easy to beat it out.

I'd like to see those pics too!
 
I hate to see anyone wear nylon and that other flamable stuff in my shop, plum scares me. Happens so quick, absolutely unnecessairy and premanent.
 
you are now a true grinding fool:D you hav'nt lived till you have set your clothes on fire!:eek:
 
Well, since you twisted my arm I'll fess up ;)

At Ed Caffrey's hammer-in back in December I was outside using the angle grinder. Did I mention I was outside in Montana in WINTER?

So beings as us Washington boys thought single digit temps were cold, I was all bundled up in about three T-shirts and a sweat-shirt. One minute I'm running a 7" angle grinder, the next I notice a flame tickling at my chin.

Burned through all but the shirt closest to my skin before I slapped it out.

Never warmed me up though :p

I wear my apron a lot more now...

Nick
 
I have a nice little burn hole in one of my ABS T shirts. I guess maybe I was standing a little too close to the grinder.
 
Yup, done that, and it was the angle grinder. It was a moment before I realized I was on fire. I was just glad no one was around to see me!
I felt almost as stupid as the time I left the key in the chuck of my drill press and turned it on!

Hey! Now there's an idea for a new board game like Clue! (i.e. Knifemaker in the yard with the angle grinder. Or, knifemaker in the shop with the drill press.) The only trouble is it's always the knifemaker!:D
 
Very dangerous

I was helping my brother out in his auto repair shop with standard issue shop uniform pants and got too close to the portable propane heater the kind that you just mount to a propane bottle and my pant leg started on fire so i just tried to swat the fire out with my hand and the nylon in the pants which was burning stuck to my hand and led to some serious burns..I finally just blew the fire out on my leg but man that stuff hurts when it sticks to your skin

Randy
 
Silent,
I like your idea of a board game based on mental lapses in the shop. I think we'd have to call it Clueless, or Without a Clue, though. I, of course, have never done anything "safety challenged" (dumb) in my shop.:rolleyes:
 
My drill press chuck key has a spring loaded plunger at its end for that very reason :)
 
Heck,we are knife makers and we play with fire and hot sparks.So as the old saying goes
"If you play with fire you will get burned"
It has just become common knowledge that I will get burnt some how almost everytime i forge or grind,I don't think of it as how much but how Bad..Just like a bull rider..I would suffer a small durn from a borax spark before I will loose the heat and have to re heat the billet.The Clothes get little holes in them.It is the pieces that jump down the back side of the glove that hurt the worst;)
I refuse to wear anything but cotton in my shop...I used to have trouble getting alittle hot :eek: from the belt grinder,until I figured out that the sparks werent supposed to be hitting me in the stomack all the time,and thus built a new grinder....
Torches and portable gas powered cut off wheels that we used at the scrap yard have caught me on fire more than anything I suppose.I just always made sure I had a good mud puddle around to extinguish myself with when I was working there..
I Love Fire and you justhave to respect it or it will bite you;)
Bruce
 
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