carefull with your cutoff wheels

[lilpigzuk]

From Pirate, pretty gruesome!

https://www.facebook.com/10000800826835 ... 0/?fref=nf

[mudsurfv6]

OUCH couldn't watch all of it.

[De-Ranged]

I call fake..... and not even a good one lol

Oh and Rex call me some time I have an axle at work that has been there for months lol I've lost your number
027 541 8794

[mudsurfv6]

didn't watch it for long enough.

[TJ]

I call fake..... and not even a good one lol

May or may not be, I'm not an expert. But grinders can be lethal. This was in the news this week

http://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/north-west/8584620/Man-killed-by-exploding-grinder

[Smurf]

Not watching the clip, I have been there first hand they cut deep and fast, I got a shattered blade to the face. I don't need the reminder.

[catalystracing]

Going to show my son who refuses to wear safety gear

[mudlva]

Going to show my son who refuses to wear safety gear

Haha dont know if safety glasses would be much use in that situation.

Couse dont know any dets but treat 9" grinders with contemp and they will bite ya

[catalystracing]

Going to show my son who refuses to wear safety gear

Haha dont know if safety glasses would be much use in that situation.

Couse dont know any dets but treat 9" grinders with contemp and they will bite ya

True, but I have a polycarb face shield, so at least some resistance

[mudlva]

Face shields would absorb alot of the force so could of ended up with a broken nose. Which would be far more prefrable than embedded in head if one had to choose.

Good to enforce good ppe practices as all its takes one good cockup to end up in hospital or a wooden box....

[Gyxx]

I know it's extremely rare for a modern grinding wheel to fail (when used properly) but when they do go the results can be spectacular.
I've probably spent literally hundreds of hours using grinders over the past couple of decades and I've seen the good old polycarb face shield do it's job quite a few times. True - if a nine inch wheel decides to let go a couple of feet away a face sheild won't stop it embedding itself in your skull but it will minimise or eliminate injury in most circumstances. Kinda like how wearing a seatbelt won't do buttkiss if you have a head on with a logging truck at speed but that doesen't mean seatbelts don't save lives.
At my last engineering job, out of a staff of just under two hundred we had two one-eyed guys and three nine-fingered guys - all workshop accidents.
Some lessons you don't want to learn the hard way...

[curly12]

It is not on the big grinders that can cause damage and please keep the safety guards on........

Last year when working at A&E in Kaitaia I triaged a gentleman who had the cutoff disk off the smaller grinder shatter.
The end result was two knuckles cut in half and the skin on his hand removed from the tops of two fingers and all the way back to the wrist , de-gloved is the term used. End result was trip to Whangarei for surgery..

[tweake]

ouch !

one thing i have noticed is the disks can have different rpm ratings. make sure you get the right one.

i recall there was a manufacturing fault in some. makita i think ? they had a whole lot that blew apart.

[catalystracing]

Face shields would absorb alot of the force so could of ended up with a broken nose. Which would be far more prefrable than embedded in head if one had to choose.

Good to enforce good ppe practices as all its takes one good cockup to end up in hospital or a wooden box....

I had weekly 6 months rehab after having a finger reattached

My engineering tutor always quoted us"if ya wouldnt put ya dick in it, dont put ya finger in it"

Lucky it was only finger being sewn back on.....

[basics]

thats nearly enough to put ya off grinding

[Mattrade]

Full face mask all the way

[MihiT]

I have seen some fairly gruesome angle grinder injuries. Worst being a mate was modding an alloy boat, no failure, just kickback, and ended up with it in his leg!
I run my 4" without the guard most of the time. I've also been known to run 9" discs on it and have never come to harm. I believe accidents are usually avoidable. Slow and smooth.
The worst discs are those really skinny ones for stainless steel, I dont know how many apprentices I've seen give them too much twist and they let go, fortunately fairly light weight missiles but not something you'd want in your eye for sure!
That said I rank that grinder as one of the most dangerous tools I use so always treat it with respect.

[ChurchurDan]

An engineer I know through work uses only one brand of cut off disc as apparently they dont shatter even when pinched and get a chunk torn out.
He did tell me a good story about cutting a lime sower bin with a grinder, he though it was well enough supported that it wouldn't move when it was cut but he was wrong. Doing the final cut at the top, the bin pinched the disc and it kicked back, the grinder body hit him right in the fore head knocking him out and he fell off the ladder. Luckily it was only bruised pride and a headache.