Close call.

[chunkolini]

I was using my table router today.
There was an accumulation of shavings near the bit (can you see where we are going kids?)
I absently mindedly see my hand flicking the shavings away, thinking 'n o t a g o o d i d e a' to myself.
FLIP! goes my finger.
Ohhellwhathaveidone.
Sit down feeling sick. Not a mark on the digit, felt like it had been whacked quite hard. There is a lump of hard skin from repeatedly singing (not Singing) the end of the digit when welding.
I was using a straight sided bit, I reckon I must have just caught the body of the bit or back of the blade.
Feeling sick even now thinking about it.
Pillock.Lucky pillock even.

chunko'.

 

[Shox Dr]

youfcukingstupidpillock indeed.

 

[rtbcomp]

That sort of thing does serve as a bit of a wake-up call Glad there was no damage done though.

It's "singeing" by the way

 

[gordon stephenson]

You were very lucky Chunko, considering the speed those things spin at,Must have been a tungsten carbide blade,as they have quite a square cutting edge and not so sharp as hss.

 

[Woody.v8]

Chunko you silly sausage, You cant be artistic with digits

 

[the snooper]

chunko nearly had a chunkofinger missing

i knew a guy fitting some mud flaps to his car one dinner break he was drilling the holes in the wheel arch and put his finger behind to check if the drill bit was all the way through i dont need to tell you what happened to his finger

 

[david500]

Thats nothing, I was in a class some years ago, Needed to drill a hole, Went over to the pillar drill, wrong size bit.
Grabbed the chuck key and started changing the bit, A 'girl' came over and said "Duhh..the switch is here" and pushed it

Dont know how I got out of that with my arm

 

[FranV8]

Glad you're okay Chunko! Back to hand tools for a week as punishment.

Total "irony" that another injury protected you!

 

[mike os]

you stupid$%%^$^%$£%^£"£%^*&&(^(%^^%$%%"£hole

or should that be lucky?

fortunate to have only seen 2 similar incidents, one involving a spindle moulder.. and 2 fingers with about 10mm missing from the ends, and another with a circular saw used for grooving, fortunately only 2mm deep at the time as the cut went across the bottom of all 4 fingers & top of thumb...fortunately no "real " damage..... (not me either)

the usual... not paying attention, & insufficient guarding

 

[Premiershipman]

I did something similar with the angle grinder - was polishing up some sheet steel with a grinding disc and i flicked my hand in the direction of the grinder when it was slowing down.

This resulted in the disc happily grinding to a halt using my index finger knuckle as a friction stop.

Its only just healed now but it channelled a nice groove in the top of my knuckle down to the bone.

Add to that the cut that is healing from slipping with the drill and driilling into the part of my hand between my thumb and index finger.

Now I am getting into welding....!



Shady

 

[Wedg1e]

That was a tad foolish old chap

I've nicked a fingernail with my bandsaw before, that's about as close as I want to get to self-surgery. However I do have a few tales, starting with...

When I was at school I had a mate who's mother had worked in a book-binders... in the days when books were sewn and glued together (they may well still be, I can't recall the last time I saw a book ). Anyway, in a moment of inattention she ran a book through the sewing machine - with her hand on top of it. Years later it still wasn't pretty, most of the flesh of her fingers had been punched through a copy of War & Peace or some such. The bone of one finger had been split down the middle by the needle...

 

[Welderpaul]

Something i see every so often is blokes sticking their finger through bolt holes. A beam weighing god knows how much, dangling on a crane, bump it up against a column and then stick their finger through the holes to check they line up. Only takes a gust of wind and their finger will be snipped off. Fingers are not podgers.
Glad you escaped unharmed Chunko. You'll remember that one for a while i bet.

 

[mike os]

fingerpodgers.... you can count them on the......


oh, maybe not


instant **** kicking session i think..

 

[Hitch]

I put a roundover bit down the side of my finger a couple of years ago, routing a little bit, had the router upside down, using it as a mini table. Hurt a bit.

 

[feathers]

Tut tut, very silly but fortunately very lucky.

I always remember what I was told first trip as cadet, "never put your fingers, where you wouldn't put your d**k."

Wise words indeed.

 

[CTB]

Yes I see the problem now. It was a dull bit. Change to a Freud and your finger will be gone in no time

 

[chunkolini]

A mate pointed out that usually the fleshy object catches on the sharp bit and gets pulled in. Reckons my pinkie should have been sprayed all over the room.
Blech. What kind of idiot acts like this?
I suppose as welderpaul says I could try sticking the pinky in small holes.
is it a male thang?
Chunko'.

 

[pedrobedro]

Another case for wearing gloves at all times. I try to remember to put mine on whenever using spinny things.

 

[the snooper]

Another case for wearing gloves at all times. I try to remember to put mine on whenever using spinny things.

much more simple to keep fingers where they should be attached to the hand

 

[brightspark]

Another case for wearing gloves at all times. I try to remember to put mine on whenever using spinny things.

just take more notice and care . respect the machine . a pair of gloves dont stop a hss cutter at about 20.000 rpm