Stupid ideas!!!.....

This is great! It's nice to know Sam and I arnt the only idiots in the room!;)

One more from me...
Always use a push stick with a band saw!!! I was cutting some maple once and had just taken off a nice little chunk, I was thinking it would have made a nice little push stick as I tossed it in the garbage. The very next cut on the block and I jammed my thumb right into the blade! I was lucky it was a slow moving metal bandsaw. Still got me good.

(helgap, Not trying to put you down, please don't take this the wrong way)
As far as knives not being sharpend till the last thing. I'm sorry, but this is one of my pet peeves. I have seen guys with a complete knife done except for the edge. Why would you do ALL that work without TESTING your knife!

What we do here can be very dangerous indeed.
All the finnish work can be done after a knife has been made sharp we just need to go about it the right way and stay focussed.


I like the ones about saftey glasses!
Can't be too carefull with your eyes.:thumbup:
Keep em comming guys.
Mace
 
Don't oxy-fuel cut no matter how small a cut - wearing sandals and cut-off shorts. Even if you put you feet way back the hot sparks will find them !!!
 
After a strenuous day of forging damascus there was a slight kink in the blade. I thought, "It has been normalised, just tap it with the hammer to get it straight."

Snap!.....

I'll be making more damascus tomorrow
 
Never leave a blade point out in a vice. I was hand rubbing a bowie and the blade was potrouding about 3" over the 2x4 it was clamped to when I fell onto the blade. The blade was at waist line and just passed between my testicles and my leg, literaly pushing them out of the way. To say it was a close miss would be a joke. I still cant belive I wasnt hurt.

Heres my jeans after. I actually wear my jeans very low but it was still a very close shave.
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So guys, always make sure the tips of those blades are not sticking out.

Jamie
 
I now always check the on/off switch on angle grinders before I plug them in to the power point. I realise that most grinders now need you to keep your finger on the button to keep them working but I had a 5inch with a faulty switch that had got stuck on.
Put the plug in the socket and turned the power point on and the grinder actually jumped off the bench as it hit top rpm.
It grabbed my shirt with a cutting disk and wound up extremely tight and and was about to cut into my gut befor I got the power plug out of the socket.
Lucky to walk away with a ruined shirt and a nice graze on my stomach.

My tip always give the switch on the grinder a little check and make sure you have a good hold of the grinder when you first hit the power.
LOL the bastards can jump
 
Alway's Always Always know where the locking set screw is on your buffer arbor. I was buffing a scaled down copy of a Puma white hunter when I turned the point towards the arbor to get into the plungeline. the set screw caught it, and snapped it in half sending the blade part spinning to the right of my face. I could hear it humming like a tuning fork. I shut it down and didnt touch the buffer for a long while after! . . . Here's my sign! :eek:

Jason
 
About 17 years ago I decided to build my own tree stand for deer hunting. I had never welded but figured how hard can it be. My father-inlaw set me up with the welder and told me to always wear the helmet. Well it was a stick and I couldn't see what I was doing and soon realized it was easier with the hood up. My fatherin-law came back about an hour later to check on me and said have you been welding with the hood up. I said yeah I couldn't see my welds. He says how do your eyes feel? They feel fine but I think I got some sand in them. The sand was the beginning of blisters that covered my eyes for days. I've never experienced pain like that and hope I never do again!

I went to a job interview two days later, led into the office by the secretary because I was still blind. One of the questions they asked was how do I feel about safety?

I didn't get the job.

I got lucky with my eyes they're 20/10 and I can still see a buck from a mile away.

Mike Quesenberry
 
Whoa, serious flash burn. I once welded a bunch of expanded metal to a frame. I was making tacks every few inches with a wire feed welder. I would line up and then close my eyes, pull the trigger then let go and open my eyes. My eyes were fine. I sun burned the end of my nose so bad it scabbed up and hurt like hell. My face wasn't that bad. Have also sunburned my arms this way welding in a short sleeve shirt. DUH

Always check your torch connections right away when you turn on a set of oxy acetylene bottles. I failed to do this once when working on a big crusher drum. Hung the torch over the side so it was hanging part way in the drum. Got my layout finished and fired up the torch to make the cut. Leaky acetylene fitting fired up so I tightened it and then refired the torch. When I hit the trigger and cut through there was a big WHUMP and fire circled around in the drum for a couple seconds. Glad I was on the outside of the drum. I latter talked to a guy who did about the same thing while working on a crusher by a gravel pile. He had laid the torch on the gravel and when he fired up it blew a a bunch of gravel around.
 
Oh I've got the stupid idea to trump them all ! Trading a power hammer that was just in need of a little TLC to get working for a gun without offering it to Justin first !

*glowers at Spike Mangler and pouts* I'd have even given visiting rights !

=)
 
My buffer is a baldor 407B- 1 horse, never buff anything attached to a thin
piece of aircraft cable.
Ken
 
I shot a knife blank through a door with a surface grinder when I bumped the vertical travel wheel with my knee. I got lucky, only damage was a slot in the door which Charlie promptly labeled with my initials and the date. We leave it there as a reminder of how long it takes for something to go wrong if you let your guard down.

I like to leave the belt tension on the drill presses kind of slack so that if something does grab and gets your hand or arm you can stop the thing. Also use a vise or good clamps on material being drilled. I like to use a vertical safety pin in the backing board when drilling pin holes. If the bit grabs and the blade should get loose, the blade never makes it around because it hits the safety pin and with the slack drive belt it stops. It hasn't been used yet but it is still there.
 
I tried sharpening edge up on the belt grinder so I could see the angle better once...the blade missed by foot by a few inches and the belt was shredded and flapping for a few seconds until I realized what happened.

Just remember...

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If one 36 grit zirconia belt is brittle, busts and skins you on the forehead and the others in the batch feel EXACTLY the same way, chances are the backing on all of them is bad. It is not necessary to try a couple of more just to see if you get the same result.:D
It is generally not a good idea to put your brain in neutral and then go grab that blade that you took out of the 450 degree tempering oven 3 minutes earlier with your bare hand to see if if it turned out okay.
When you are hand sanding a sharpened blade, it is not a good idea to wipe it down with a single layer of paper towel and get close to the edge.
 
Over the years it seems I have more than once forgotten about saftey. Most my worse incidents involve welding in one form or another. Growing up in my dads welding shop was fascinating but could be very dangerous. My worst episode was when I was much younger. I was welding up a job when I decided to take a break and took off my visor and gloves and set the stick still in the handle on the table. As I reached for something across the table my right hand touched the hot stick while I touched the grounded table at that precise moment with my free hand. The weld I got was about half way through my hand and the shock was really bad. I just sat to the floor unable to move but knowing I had to get up or I never would. Since my dad was not not working and no one else ever came to the shop, it was some time before I was able to get up and make it to the house. I think I can still feel the current almost 40 years later.

Never let your gaurd down guys or it may be our loved ones that pay for our stupid mistakes. God Bless.....Uncle T
 
I'm sorry Justin, but trading stuff for guns is always good!:thumbup:
I feel your pain, but guns are cool.:D
Mace
 
hay jamiemackie you can jam a tenns ball on the end of the knife blade to make it nut proof ;)

I did a oops a month or so a go. i was heat treating a large block of steel for work. it was d2 or something and because it was so large i oil quenched it. so i pulled it out of the oven cut open the foil hooked it with the dip hook and lowered it into the oil. there was a huge bellowing cloud of smoke. i then wanted to check its color so i pulled it out and it was still red hot. it was hot enough to light the smoke on fire :(. there was a huge fire ball the reached the roof that was over 15 feet high. ya i did not need that hair on my body :D
 
I once started this thread on Bladeforums about a random work in progress without having the knife or all the pictures done before starting it. Boy was that wicked retarded. :rolleyes:
 
When I was first learning to weld, I was doing it with an oxy/acetylene torch. As I was welding two pieces of angle iron together, I failed to see that the angle iron was deflecting the flame right onto my flannel shirt. All of a sudden, I couldn't breathe and there was this awful smell. I pulled off my goggles to find that the left side of my shirt was on fire. After some impromtu break dancing and wild hand slapping I was fine. The first thing I did once I realized I was OK was to look around and see if anyone saw me. Thankfully there was not.
 
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