Put that safety guard back on. Got lucky today.

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This could have been bad....Thank God I wasn’t seriously injured. I had a cutoff wheel break sending the disk into my neck. I was wearing safety glasses and a hat. Even if I had my face shield on it might have got me. I’ll be putting the guard back on. Be safe working and playing alone! Craig

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Every time I get tempted to pull the safety guard off I imagine my face and eyes being destroyed by shrapnel. Not worth it...
 
I had an employee cut across the palm of his hand with a cutoff wheel with the gard removed. Bad deal, he lost all feeling in his thumb.
 
Oldiron440 said:
I had an employee cut across the palm of his hand with a cutoff wheel with the gard removed. Bad deal, he lost all feeling in his thumb.
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And unless you're really lucky, that feeling never comes back. For the rest of your life.
 
MopaR&D said:
And unless you're really lucky, that feeling never comes back. For the rest of your life.
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I cut 2 of my fingers to the bone in 6th grade (not a cutoff wheel incident, though) - had no feeling in the tip of either - one came back a little over sensitive after a few years...the other came back about 20 years later...but it's weird having a numb finger.

The safety guard on the grinder with the cutoff wheel really isn't that much of a nuisance, and they're nasty when they let go - after seeing a few pics, I put them back on last year
 
Grinders are scary tools. At least the pneumatic are controllable. Electrics not so much. Wonder why adjustable electrics are rare?
I better put the guard on mine!
Glad you're ok.
 
No different than taking the guard off of a chainsaw.
You have to be aware of the possibilities and keep them in mind when using the tool.
Kind of like standing inline with a direct drive steel radiator fan while revving the engine.:D

**** still happens though, no matter how careful we are.
 
4spdragtop said:
Grinders are scary tools. At least the pneumatic are controllable. Electrics not so much. Wonder why adjustable electrics are rare?
I better put the guard on mine!
Glad you're ok.
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I was cutting a bolt with a 3" wheel on a die grinder. It grabbed once and I said to myself WTF am I doing? grabbed the 4.5" grinder with the guard and zipped the bolt off.
Adjusting an electric A/C is harder than a rheostat on a D/C. A/C needs to be duty cycled or frequency modulated. Expensive on a 15-$35 device, although buffers have them. Maybe its the amperage they draw.
 
Yeah when I was grinder shopping for porting, finding an adjustable of any kind is super expensive.
pishta said:
I was cutting a bolt with a 3" wheel on a die grinder. It grabbed once and I said to myself WTF am I doing? grabbed the 4.5" grinder with the guard and zipped the bolt off.
Adjusting an electric A/C is harder than a rheostat on a D/C. A/C needs to be duty cycled or frequency modulated. Expensive on a 15-$35 device, although buffers have them. Maybe its the amperage they draw.
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