Clamp Your Part in the Drill Press!
Remind me to pay attention! And clamp the part to the drill press when drilling. My rear sprocket shim spun a few times while still attached to the 3/8" drill bit and badly sliced up three fingers. It's tough trying to type nevermind anything else. There was no blood on the part, but there sure is all over the house carpet.
Like "stitches" bad?
three fingers got sliced. one bad. Finally stopped the bleeding two hours later. Left hand typing is just pinky. Ring finger might need stitched. Wife offered me Scotch while cleaning. SURE!!!
Two hours? Probably merits medical attention. *
* I'm not a doctor, I just play one on the internet.
It had stopped, but then I had to do "Ethics Training" for my employer. had to type and it started bleeding again. must have been the trauma due to my lack of ethics.
I learned that lesson the easy way 30 years ago watching one of my best friends at work. he tried to enlarge a hole in a stainless toggle and when the bit hung up it spun the part around and neatly sliced the top off his thumb, right across his knuckle.
My boss was sure pissed - ruined a 12 year or so perfect safety record streak.
I also had a bit break and fly out of the press, blowing the passenger side window out of my wife's car.
I was making gearposts last weekend when the parting tool hung up in the work. Who would think a 3/32 parting tool would hang up in a PVC bar, but it did, snapping the parting tool off, yanking the bar out of the chuck, and flinging it off the tool holder and into the wall behind the lathe.
Wear eye protection folks!
If it makes you feel better, Schwietz once got his hair caught in a drill press spindle, cut off a finger completely another time (that one was mostly reattached), and yet another time shoved a die grinder with a carbide burr through his palm and out the back of his index finger. That time, he gathered his employees to watch before yanking it back through. There was also the time he tripped going down steps and broke both ankles, but still worked that weekend as a fuel man, then a week or two later, cut a cast off with an old hacksaw blade (with no handle) so he could drive his DB6.
I don't find that surprising. The PVC flexes a lot, even close to the chuck, and parting can be troublesome as it is, even if you were careful to square the tool, ensure it was at the correct height, only sticking out from the holder as much as needed, etc. If you were feeding by hand, I'm even less surprised.Originally Posted by Rick Kirchner
Schweitz is quite a character.
Josh - so what is "between 90 and 180"? Does that mean you are right wing and heading south?
You might want to go out and get some wound seal from the local drug store. It's handy to have around the shop. I like the powder better than the spray. It was developed for the military, and works great for stopping bleeding in deep cuts. I've supervised student machine shops at a few university's, I've seen my fair share of blood, and stupid human tricks with a drill press.
Wow, Rob ---
I figure it's prettty BAD when the wife starts offering Scotch. I did the same thing on a piece of aluminum sheet in the drill press a while back. So easy to forget the simple safety procedures when you're working... and concentrating on the work.
Make the wound a lesson. And here I'm talking as much to myself as I am anyone else. Friendly little shop machines can take an eye or a finger -- I knew a guy who had a lathe pull a tendon all the way out of his upper arm through his right hand.
Sorry to hear about the mishap, Rob. Be careful in there. I need more of your good lessons!
Regards,
Chris
Machine Shop Accidents
I've been a machine shop owner for about 30 years now. The worst accidents we've had were from my guys trying to drill sheet metal in a drill press. Thinking they can hold it with their hand and pull the handle on the quill. Drill snaggs the part and off go the fingers. Done it myself and learned.
Its almost as dangerous as hot propping an airplane.
Glad all is ok
Gary Hickman
Edge Engineering Inc
FB #76
Someone called me "obtuse," so I changed it to that, and left it even though it turned out he meant "abstruse."
Glenfiddich?
Glad you're mostly OK Rob
Eh, hopefully Lagavulin or other Islay malt.
Laphroig is my favorite. Like drinking a campfire.
Yes it was Glenfiddich. 12 YO - I'm saving the 18 YO stuff for special occasions. This was not one of them! And thanks again Aaron.
I had two quarters of pre-med until I decided on engineering so i am able to diagnose and am licensed is South America. My diagnosis is you are fine, unless your appendages start changing color. If that happens you are not fine.
In the interest of full disclosure, I self diagnosed an eyelid issue this past Thanksgving. After a cursury internet search that I quickly decided were hogwash opinions; I attempted to solve the issue with.....tweezers and intense pain. I think it would have worked if it hadnt been for the infection. A surgery in December and a follow up in January and I am good to go. The scar on my eyelid is permanent but as a result of the doctors work as opposed to mine. Now that I have learned from this, it will make me a better doctor.
Ken
Vivid analogy
So ya poured the scotch
directly on the wound to disinfect? Din' that sting like a mofo?
"Clamp Your Part in the Drill Press!"
With a title like "Clamp Your Part in the Drill Press!" I was afraid you were going in a completely different direction with this thread, but then I had just been reading the Atlantic Championship Series news thread...
Rob, I wish you a speedy recovery. Be careful!
"I love the smell of race fuel in the morning. It smells like victory!"
Barry Wilcock
Pit Crew: Tumenas Motorsports/Houndspeed, Fat Boy Racing
+1 Lagavulin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690
As My 7 yrd old would say "suck it up Buttercup"
"As I nurse a wound from a carbide in a die grinder"
Get well soon, there's some Racin to be dome.
I hope you drank it rather than use it as a wound sterilizer!
About 30 years ago I was making a low TV table for the living room and was pounding the legs up through the mounting holes ( 4" square legs that protrude up past the top surface a bit) and smashed my thumb big time with the 2 lb sledge I was using. Woke up a few minutes later and broke out the bottle of uncut (190 proof) Dewars (a friend was a longshoreman and kept all his friends well supplied).
Slept like a baby after about 5 shots!
super glue works well for closing deep cuts, and does not sting any worse then the high dollar stuff they use at the ER.
Richard, a 2lbs sledge for table legs??? slight over kill?
Heavy duty legs into tight holes!
No whining.
Ouch!
No way that guy lived.
There was a machinist at the one of the prototype shops that I used to work at that had a chip grab a hold of his shirt sleeve. This would not have been so bad but it was a 3" drill on 30hp radial arm drill, wrapped his arm around the spindle and drug him around under the column until someone came over and shut off the machine.
They used to say "that was the day that Art went dancing with the radial drill"
He lived through it and when I met him we was 72 and still running the same machine.
Good cool comments and stories. My injuries are really nothing compared to some here. Worst of it is my own admission that I was carelessly not paying attention. I am not immortal.
Which is why I have zero long sleeve shirts in my work wardrobe!
Agree 100%. In fact, I wear nothing but a thin coat of Mobil Vactra #2 for all machining operations.
You work in the buff?
Yea - we had heard that you were called Slick Dick.
Is that
Post 27 - Gnarled arm guy
Schweitz?
On a related note, I don't think there is anyone else that is mentioned more on here, yet aparently never actually shows up!!
Dude must have a real job!
That's because he is illiterate.
So what's a special occasion? When you take a hand?
Just kidding- glad you're Ok. Could have been worse
No, that is my father's arm.
"Josh"...
"I am your father"
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"!
Man that looks uber gnarly - glad Pops made it out alive.
I guess we need to hear how that all went down, so spill it (for educational purposes only, mind you).
PS I am fully prepared to top that with a pic of myself in a very bad time, but I must warn you that the women, children under 12, pregnant women, and women who believe they may be pregnant need to not view said horrid pics.
It's skeeerry!
That was the result of one competent surgeon repairing the nerve damage caused by another incompetent surgeon who botched a carpal tunnel repair.
If you are going to post your motorcycle leg destruction photos, you're going to win, I think.
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