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enigma57 said:
Just a short safety reminder to all...... On tools, chisels, etc. that are meant to be used as hand tools and struck with a hammer...... Only the end that is in contact with the work is hardened. That is why the end you strike with a hammer has softer metal split and over time, will bend back down the shaft, needing grinding to remove and dress up the hammer end from time to time.

Conversely, tool heads that are designed to be inserted in pneumatic tools such as hammer drills and jackhammers are hardened on both ends. DO NOT STRIKE THESE PNEUMATIC HAMMER HEADS WITH A HAMMER! Hammer heads are hardened, as well. When you hit a hardened surface with another hardened surface, shards of hardened steel can come off one or the other.

I had this happen once and had to have an eye doctor pull a steel sliver out of my left eye the following day. It was only 1/4" long, but it felt like a boulder. My hand chisel was old and the striking surface had been ground down and shortened over many years of use. So much so that the striking surface had gotten down to the hardened metal for the tip.

This same thing happened to a journeyman pipefitter I apprenticed for back in the late '60s. We were working on the 23rd floor of a 55 story building going up in downtown Houston. No walls, just bare concrete floors with holes for pipe chases, stairs and elevators yet to be installed. 22 degree cold air blowing through about 30 MPH. Typical winter work day for us.

He had several layers of clothes on. The metal shard went through them all and he couldn't pull it out with gloves on, so he called me over and told me to pull it out with my channel lock pliers. He pulled his coat and shirt back and I pulled it out...... There was just enough sticking out of his belly to get my pliers on. It turned out to be 3/4" long after I got it out and it punctured his stomach. So I drove him to the hospital for a tetanus shot and to be checked out. He healed up OK. And so did I.

Safety first,

Harry
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Guy i worked for used 2 hammers to knock out u-joints. One hammer chipped and sent a chunk flying.lucky it didnt imbed in somebody.

buddy in a local maintenance shop was using a sledge hammer to drive track pins. Hammer chipped, and the plying piece went under his helper’s face shield and imbedded in his neck.
Just missed his jugular. Trip to hospital and stitches.
 
I have had slivers of metal in my eye, while cutting rotors, or drums , or flywheels... Not Pretty.. Happened twice, before I assumed Eye Glasses... My dumb ***.........
 
MOPARMITCH said:
I have had slivers of metal in my eye, while cutting rotors, or drums , or flywheels... Not Pretty.. Happened twice, before I assumed Eye Glasses... My dumb ***.........
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And this is why I wear full face safety shields and a mask. I worked as a fabricator building Oil drilling platforms back in 2012 and 2013. Had a rotor broach break in a mill, safety glasses stopped it from hitting my but it busted up my lips and cheeks
 
enigma57 said:
Mitch and Tooljunkie...... I understand. Its not something we think about until it happens to us or someone we know. Striking hardened tool ends with a hammer is like playing Russian roulette. I was lucky. Can still see out of my left eye. The journeyman I worked with was fortunate as well. They told him at the hospital that if he hadn't had me pull it out whilst he was standing and had sat down, bent or twisted at the waist, it would have probably sliced through a large vein it just missed.

Best regards,

Harry
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I see your Avatar... Are you a Viet Nam Vet ?
 
My glasses are impact resistant. I should have used my face shield the other day, got a chunk of debris in my eye. It finally worked itself out. Saturday if i go to city im buying 2 new shields.
 
These look like they are up to the task. May be good for plasma cutting too. Will have to check the shade.
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dukeboy_318 said:
And this is why I wear full face safety shields and a mask. I worked as a fabricator building Oil drilling platforms back in 2012 and 2013. Had a rotor broach break in a mill, safety glasses stopped it from hitting my but it busted up my lips and cheeks
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I have a question....
What have you not done? Really? You have done more in your what, 30, 35 years, then most in there entire life's.
 
These look like they are up to the task. May be good for plasma cutting too. Will have to check the shade. Looks like shade 5. Good to go.
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Tooljunkie said:
Duplicate. I broke the internet- again...
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I don’t think it’s you. Our WiFi fragged tonight and I had to reboot it. It kept saying that the connection password was incorrect, but of course it wasn’t.

I think some internet IT geek (or geeks) are messing with settings again. It’s not just on this site either, my browser on my desktop hung up 3 times today and had to be rebooted...regardless of what site I was headed to.
 
Well, I guess I’m headed back to the 80s...I just got 2 more pair of Levi’s and my new pair of suede buck shoes. :)

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Mopar Tim said:
I have a question....
What have you not done? Really? You have done more in your what, 30, 35 years, then most in there entire life's.
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Well I started working a w2 paying job at 14. Grew up on a working farm, raised my my maternal grandparents since my parents had 5 kids and I was the oldest, I got sent to live with my grandparents. so it was pretty much learn a variety of skills and how to adapt.

From the time I was 12 on, I literally was only home to sleep. Everything from doing search and rescue missions with CAP and the American Red Cross. At 14, I started working various concession stands at the area fairs and carnivals. Spent the summer of my freshman year pouring concrete for my cousins construction outfit, my sophomore summer was spent working the top cattle ranch in Indiana with nearly 2500 head of cattle. joined the Guard at 17 because I wanted a steady paycheck monthly. Wasn’t much.

At 18, 2 weeks before graduation, I was homeless, long story there, managed to work a deal with my now father in law and a former Army 1st Sgt, to stay in his garage in exchange for helping him re-do some roofs he’d picked up on the side. I was already dating his daughter and for some reason, he trusted me from the get go. Later that year, I started working security jobs after I finished my army training, and while going to school and ROTC full time. Worked 10p to 6a on a 6 on, 3 off rotation rotc at 645, class at 9, ended around 4-6 depending on the day. Slept my freshman thru junior year mostly in the back of my truck on campus or at rest stops between work and campus.

After i blew out my knee half way thru my junior year, i was forced out of rotc, took most of my remaining courses as distance learning or accelerated test outs, that same time, while I was stuck in bed and couldn’t drive, I started picking up a couple hours at the diesel performance shop down the road from my father in law, rebuilding turbos and injection pumps for them. That expanded into a project R and D role a few days a week giving me a ton of access to the dyno, which is how I tuned and built my truck. , all the while I was still working my night security job and the Guard stuff. I then got to start driving the truck at a few various sled pulling events. Continued that for several years. Then a buddy of mine talked me into getting off night shift and starting out as a building maintenance man for a company in Indy building mining and oil drill machines. A couple months of that, they figured I could weld and fab well enough, moved me into an apprenticeship role as a fabrication specialist. Company CFO got caught stealing the company’s Money, but before they could recover, he’d left the country with it. Ended up closing that place down as a result, right as my wife was pregnant with our first.

So I was laid off, worked a seasonal job driving forklifts for Menards, after that, Toyota hired me as a temp, I drove parts tuggers for them for about a month before I got talked into getting my insurance licenses and started my own insurance agency and was selling insurance for Farmers, 21st, and Bristol west for a couple years, wasn’t doing very well at all with it, so I got picked upto be a residential advisor for the Department of Labors Job Corp program, eventually closed up the insurance gig and took a Supervisor position with DoL. then I got a call from a job recruiter, she’d ran across my resume online and was looking for an entry level tech writer and someone to train up on CAD work for Cummins. So I took it, taught myself various CAD software in my evenings And 5 years later now, I’m a Design Engineer with a Masters degree in Business.


I’m not as clueless and stupid as I let on In here I suppose. And I never give up learning and trying to get better.
 
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@Mopar Tim my full resume is nearly 4 pages long and that’s with just 1-3 sentence under each job. :lol: I trim and Taylor it to only show relevant work experience for whatever position I’m applying for. But if I do use the full one, recruiters typically go holy hell Batman
 
MOPARMITCH said:
Soooo...How's everybody's Hammer Hangin ????? LOL.....
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Oh not well. 2 sick kids, sick wife, 4 annoying pets, I almost punched a co worker today after the dipshit deleted everything we’d been working on for the last 4 months. Thankfully, it was backed up or we’d been screwed.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
@Mopar Tim my full resume is nearly 4 pages long and that’s with just 1-3 sentence under each job. :lol: I trim and Taylor it to only show relevant work experience for whatever position I’m applying for. But if I do use the full one, recruiters typically go holy hell Batman
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My resume is, resuming what I have been doing for the last 20 yrs....What I....Want......:thumbsup:
 
dukeboy_318 said:
It’s just that really I screwed up by starting that in this thread. That topic belongs on the political forum
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The more you talk politics here the more you will get caught and the more the other moderators will stop in to check. I am a safety net here and I often warn you guys and then delete posts. This thread is a great place but there are rules to follow whether it be politics or pornography. No reason to push the rules. I have said and posted things that I deleted in a hurry after I thought about the content.
 
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toolmanmike said:
The more you talk politics here the more you will get caught and the more the other moderators will stop in to check. I am a safety net here and I often warn you guys and then delete posts. This thread is a great place but there are rules to follow whether it be politics or pornography. No reason to push the rules.
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I know dad. :poke: It was my fault, I apologize, it was late and I wasn’t thinking clearly much about it.
 
MOPARMITCH said:
My resume is, resuming what I have been doing for the last 20 yrs....What I....Want......:thumbsup:
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I’d love to be in that position, which is why I went the insurance agency route. Thought if I could generate enough business to eventually hire out most of the work, I’d be set. But after doing the math and realizing that even with the highest commission rates of any insurance companies, I was barely making 2-3 bucks an hour IF I sold a policy. Each policy only took 10-15 minutes to actual sell to someone but the massive behind the scenes documents they required meant 3-5 hours for an auto policy 8-12 for a life policy and 2-3 days for a homeowners. I did the math and realized that to hire just a single person and pay them minimum wage even, I’d had to sell 2500-3000 policies a month. To just turn a profit. Nope, done
 
Good Evening All! Wife called me and asked me if I wanted to play Lets Make A Deal. "All" I had to do was wipe out the fridge and freezer in our RV (that it now unplugged and we accidently left the door closed). I agreed but it was WAY worse than I thought, quite a bit of standing freezing cold water in the freezer, she got me!
 
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