Minus the sticker.
The Flesh Removing Machine.
That’s no joke.
That thing will FUCK YOU UP if you aren’t REAL CAREFUL.
Works great for certain applications though.
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
Minus the sticker.
The Flesh Removing Machine.
That’s no joke.
That thing will FUCK YOU UP if you aren’t REAL CAREFUL.
Works great for certain applications though.
did you ever try one of those nylon brush wheels ?
pricey as hell, but great for cleaning up stuff.
myself, I use a wire to clean up big crap and the nylon one to fine finish.
and yes, wear gloves. and goggles too. skin can grow back. painful. but it will
you only get one set of eyes though. I like the face shields myself.
gotten a wire or two in the face hurts like hell.
The worst part of wire brush burns is there isn’t anything left to put a band-aid on. I got bit by a stiff bristle wire wheel in a 15,000 rpm hand grinder once. By the time I noticed I had a problem, there was a gouge the width of the wheel in the side of my finger and a fine spray of meat and blood on the part I was cleaning. That was when I learned the value of a good vice instead of trying to hold the part by hand. Never made that mistake again.
I’m with you there, hold your part with a plier of some sort at the very least. Oh, and watch for those worn out wheels too, when the start shedding bristles they’re trying to tell you something.
Or a bench drill press without pulley cover that grabs your hair just as the bit binds in your work, rips it from your hand and gives you a couple of smacks.
Yup, don’t try to tickle yer dick on it.
You’ve had experience??
Who knew!
That was…um…someone I heard about.
I have found out by bitter experience that an angle grinder with no guard makes a useful substitute . . .
Watched an arrogant cowboy in high school metal shop use the top of the wire wheel to clean a heart shaped brand he made. It was going well until it flung the heart, point first, into his forehead.
First brand, eh?
The thing is, every power tool in the shop needs one of those stickers. Any table saw, bandsaw, or router, that can cut oak isn’t even going to slow down taking off a finger. Any milling machine or lathe that can cut metal is going to take off any body part it touches.
I was careless for a minute a year and a half ago and my lathe took off the tip of a finger. Thankfully, not all the way, and a good surgeon rebuilt it for me. Even pretty much works for everything. I was lucky.
Eye stealer. I like the full face shield and safety squint behind that.
Like Jannie, I lost some hide to a guard less angle grinder. Almost on top of the thumb knuckle. It ate through my glove like it was wet toilet paper.
I am always reminded of Rudyard Kipling’s The Secret of the Machines:
“But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive.
If you make a slip in handling us you die! ”
( https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46786/the-secret-of-the-machines )
The little bastards will take every chance they can to savage ya!
Mine still has the guards on it. Probably just as dangerous.
Working on a four-wheeler, I was using the wire wheel to clean some body fasteners. The wire wheel sucked the part out of my hands and into the guards. It made something like four revolutions before ejecting itself out. Slammed into the lower joint of my thumb and careening into the void of the uncleaned section of my garage. Torn a good chunk out of my hand and lost the part in the blink of an eye.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Man, you guys are no fun at all.