eye eye captain

marekz

marekz

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Just a little note for all the new knife makers/enthuisiest-as i am one. The Note is SAFETY. i was grinding, i had my flter and gogles on. I was done-so i took off the gogles and filter but i had a little burr left-so i turned thr grinder on, took a 1/2 of a second swipe with my blade, and got something in my eye. that something started off as a minor itch and ended up a full blown infection. i had to get a cat scan to see inside the orb. SO YALL REMMEMBER THAT YOUR SAFETY IS ALWAYS YOUR #1 PRIORITY. THANKS MARK
 
I had a tool break on me once, it shattered and a piece of it actually stuck in my glasses (they were really hard plastic).
 
I had a boss once who had a lazy eye. It came up in conversation once. He didn't realize his mill was set in rapid and he crashed a cutter. Came through his safety glasses and ruined an eye. Weird looking dude sometimes when that eye got to wandering...
 
ha thats too funny well not ya'll I just got something out of my eye before I sat down for the night
 
I have a little note on the medicine cabinet in my shop that says---Theres always a split second or moment before a mishap that you know you shouldn't be doing what your doing. "Don't do it or you will be in here tapeing yourself back together".
Ken.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I had a boss once who had a lazy eye. It came up in conversation once. He didn't realize his mill was set in rapid and he crashed a cutter. Came through his safety glasses and ruined an eye. Weird looking dude sometimes when that eye got to wandering...
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In my metalwork class at school, I was looking for a good cutter and picked up a 3/4" 2 flute cutter, then realized it was a 4 flute with opposite teeth knocked completely off... It is amazing we don't get injuries...

What does "set in rapid" mean?
 
Keith_H said:
What does "set in rapid" mean?
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-Some machines, like vertical mills and larger lathes, have a "rapid traverse" setting for the carriage or table. This is for when you're making multiple passes over, say, a long piece. You make a cut, back the tool away, "rapid" the table back to the starting point, dial the tool back in, and restart the cut.

Older machines have a mechanical linkage- you might have a control that starts and stops the table moving, and a second control that selects between rapid or normal slow feed.

It's not uncommon for someone to slap it into rapid, home the table, and then shut everything off to remove the workpiece. The next person working the machine- or even the same guy if he's not paying attention- could slip it into gear, not knowing it's in rapid, which would slam the workpiece into the tool.

Doc.
 
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