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Well parts may fly, tools may be broken, but i got hurt once and have never fogotten it.
I was using a simple drill press, 1/2hp motor on it, 1/4" drill at say 40 rpm to drill though some wear material.
To clear the chips i was using a wooden stick, but for whatever reason i started using the kevlar gloves to move the
chips aside. The drill caught the tip of the glove on my left hand, it just started pulling and wrapping the glove around my hand.
I was lifted off my feet and thrown against the drill press. I screamed as i watched the drill now start cutting the glove and
could feel my thumb being pulled on and wrapped around and over the adjoining finger. I could now feel the drill cutting my
ger. The thumb and finger were just wrapped around the drill and was watching it twist the glove and start cutting it.
As the buzzing in my head started and i knew i was going to faint, i kicked the wall and hit the cord knocking it out of the wall.
I fainted for about a minute and then came through. F.....did it ever hurt! I slid the hand down the drill and told the wife
that to i cut my finger off. I now felt no pain so i removed the glove. The drill cut through the skin to the bone.
My thumb was pulled out of it's socket and rotated about 90 degrees or so. Because the thumb was over top of the
finger it pushed the nail through the skin. It hurt just as much when the doctor pulled the thumb to reset it back into the socket.
I took about 6 months for all to heal. I would say that the finger felt like someone hit the nail full force with a 10 # sludge hammer.
SO don't thing for a moment that a small machine can't do harm or underestimate the power of a motor.
RICH
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