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Plain ol Bill

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I've been a welder all my working life and thought I could stand up to heat pretty good. I am teaching myself how to hollow grind and those blades get hot :barf: quick when you are holding them bare handed.
OK guys - do you use something to hold your work in either hand while grinding - magnet, push block or?? Do you just use fingers only - no gloves or??
 
Fingers only. I started with gloves but as time passed I learned that I could feel the frind better without them. Not to mention that they would wear out, get ragged and get caught in the Grinder.
 
I clamp vice grips on the blade to give me a beter grip, if i'm roughing both hands are on the gliers. for finish grind of a heat treated piecemy right hand is on the blade. right up where I'm grinding. I keep both my hand and the blade wet if the waters gone the blade will soon be to hot.

but gloves are to dangerus
 
I don't get this "Oh no look out or your gloves will get caught up by the contact wheel!". I've been using leather welding gloves for over 6 1/2 years and never once came near getting them caught. You'd have to be a moron and stick your fingers on the top of the wheel to get caught and then a glove aint gonna do you any good. Your finger will be spun around faster than you can blink. Why would you be putting your hands, gloved or not, near the top side of the wheel?
 
get a bucket of water and keep it near your grinder. when your blade gets hot,dip it to cool it off.easy.
also,when you really gotta go,you can just piss in the bucket instead of going back in the house.
 
I dont use gloves. When the steel gets too hot to hold, i dunk it in water to cool it down. Building up heat when grinding is bad for the blade, and can affect the heat treat. Are gloves dangerous? i dunno. Never tried it. I know it sucks to have burned finger tips, but it teaches you a lesson. And saves steel and blades from cracking or warping in heat treat.

I hold the blade tang in one hand, and rest the blade on the other hand, fingers aren't usually on the blade.
 
Gloves when "hogging", gloves off for the finer work...still get blisters though...
thanks for the tip, Maurice, will save me the extra walking when I remember to go :)
 
No gloves, not for any good reason except that's the way I learned and I'm of an age that 'gloves are for sissies' (sorry, Michael).
I do use a push stick. I was watching a video, can't remember who right now, and I saw them using a notched stick to steady the blade. I went right out in my shop and made several. I use Corean because I have lots from dumpster diving at a kitchen counter shop.
Later, Lynn
 
well L-6 i guess i take the cake!
:D without gloves i did the once around the 5" contact wheel while working the belt from behind on a handle just yesterday!:p by the way, from your description it sounds like you have done this yourself!:p gloves or no gloves.
 
Ouch Laurence!!!! That musta been one major hurt! Hope they can fix it up right and there won't be any premanent damage! Got any pictures? Muhahahahah :D Never done it myself but when I first got my Wilton it scared the *^%(*&%*&%% out of me and I envisioned what would happen if a finger got caught.
 
naw the only thing injured was my ego.:) but i tell you you know your alive! when your hand gets whipped around that belt and wheel:eek:
 
No gloves here.
I did wear them years ago,never got one caught in the grinder but I did grind through allot uf them and then the material on the inside would catch on fire and burn the %&^%^#$^&%** out of my finger:eek: ,This taught me how to hold the blade against the grinderwithout hitting the belt and thus I took the gloes off and now have better control and can keep lines evener than I could with the gloves on.
Bruce
 
OK I said that gloves are to dangerous,

you have to understand that I am a cabinet maker first. I work with high speedcutter heads. they dont give you a second chance.
thump, IT'S GONE!!!!!!:eek:

with a saw, you snag the tip of a gloved finger and your hand's in the blade, none of this burning through and scorching.

no gloves, no rings, no watches, no loose clothing.

ok I'm paranoid,but me and power tools are old enemies.
I like my fingers, and I plan to keep them
 
Eric, I agree with you. I don't want to give a machine any extra handles to grab onto. What might be a simple cut or scrape on a bare hand might end up being a major injury if the machine can catch on clothing, gloves, or jewelry.
 
Ya bill you can get them pretty hot, especially doing the rough grinding with 36 grit belts. I use lots of water, grind, dunk, grind, dunk. The unmetioned secerate though especially after the HT is to use fresh sharp belts and slow your belt speed down. This will cut down on heat build up. Still do the grind, dunk, grind, dunk after every pass though.
Oh ya, no gloves or push sticks here. Ya got to feel the heat. Should never get to hot to hold especially after HT.
 
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