Before we use any power tools, let's take a moment to talk about shop safety. Be sure to read, understand, and follow all the safety rules that come with your power tools. Knowing how to use your power tools properly will greatly reduce the risk of personal injury. And remember this: there is no more important safety rule than to wear these - safety glasses.
It goes rusty and it starts to hurt when you blink, you then need to go to casualty and be talked to as if you're a brain-damaged 6 yr old, then have it removed by a spotty-faced "Health Professional" with a big bloody needle.
It would start to itch and you would weep when looking in sunlight.
Well I did :)
I hope it is all out.
Had something similar with a spark from an angle grinder some years back: of course the glasses were in the box but it was too much trouble to put them on just to cut that little rod.
Two days later at the doctor... he put me in a machine that held my head and took the bit of iron out with a what looked like pliers.I felt them and I passed out, unable to control it. Came back to earth a minute or so later, soaking wet from sweat and icecold.
Did I tell I am very afraid of medical people wearing white clothes? Needles too give me the willies.
Nope. I was spraying the car months ago and the safety glasses were left out. Today I was fiddling around under the cross member and rusty s**te was falling in my face...
Aye. I'm a big fan of wearing safety glasses when wearing power tools. However, I still managed to get rusty s**te in my face when I was wearing them yesterday. Gravity has its ways when you're lying below a piece of VAG's finest rusty torsion beam.
A mate of mine was doing something similar years back, with a flat (and sharp...) piece of metal. It spun round on the drill and slashed his front open. Good job it was winter and he had a t-shirt, wooly jumper and overalls on, it made it through the wooly jumper...
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