hautpot
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I was told to NOT do this for safety, but was I told wrong?
Do people usually hold impact sockets like this?
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I was told to NOT do this for safety, but was I told wrong?
ovrrdrive
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There's no need to hold it like that when it's running as it doesn't do any good and there are at least a few rare instances where it could lead to damage to your hand. Where that comes from is people put a hand on the socket to help seat it on the nut. Especially with a 6 point impact socket it can be difficult to line it up to the nut without using a hand to assist. Once it's on there though I take that hand off and put it on the gun.
If the socket were to come apart while spinning at high speed it could take off a finger. It would be a one in a million situation (assuming you're using the correct sockets) but possible.
If the socket were to come apart while spinning at high speed it could take off a finger. It would be a one in a million situation (assuming you're using the correct sockets) but possible.
bsaint
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He might be doing that to align himself with the fastener.
Rookie2
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I've had peeling chrome slice a finger or two ,slow down and think !
dlcwent
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I would agree with every post so far. I think he is just lining up the socket with the fastener. ..........SAFTEY IS NO ACCIDENT.
It not an impact socket for one.
christopher7390
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and yes I do hold the impact socket. As long as it cant cut me for whatever reasons
454ragtop
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shamrock12
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I do that quite often. Doing so help keep the impact gun aligned linearly to the stud/nut from flopping around. Also to catch the bolt/nut from falling down and disappearing.
There you go.
I would not put my hand on that thing for any reason. An impact socket, then yes, briefly.Marc Benjamin
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He's just starting to line that up since he's holding it tightly.
Now, I do loosely keep my gloved hand in that position to brace and catch the nut from flying once it comes of.
Now, I do loosely keep my gloved hand in that position to brace and catch the nut from flying once it comes of.
Zeke
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I don't do that but he might be managing the nut's removal so it doesn't spin off, hit the floor and disappear.
redwrench60
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You guys do know that's a staged photo for demonstration purposes and not real work going on.....right? Is that not IR advertising?
rodsnratfinks
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Do you guys usually hold a soldering iron like this?
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shoggoth80
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Oof! That soldering iron method would huuurt.
As far as the impact goes... that is either a very, very worn impact (I've seen them worn grey. My 21mm is almost there), or it isn't an impact at all, and therefore risky in and of itself. Otherwise, I see someone indexing the socket to the fastener. Once on, I move my hand back to the top of the gun. When the fastener is either almost off, or spun off, I mopve my hand back forward to catch it.
It's almost like the H&K catalog that had pictures of the rounds backwards in the magazine...
As far as the impact goes... that is either a very, very worn impact (I've seen them worn grey. My 21mm is almost there), or it isn't an impact at all, and therefore risky in and of itself. Otherwise, I see someone indexing the socket to the fastener. Once on, I move my hand back to the top of the gun. When the fastener is either almost off, or spun off, I mopve my hand back forward to catch it.
It's almost like the H&K catalog that had pictures of the rounds backwards in the magazine...
Zrexxer
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You might get away with the impact wrench indefinitely, but you'd learn the error of your ways the first time with the soldering iron!
APEowner
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I can't tell you if it's a good idea or not but I can tell you that I've been doing that with impact sockets for over 30 years. I won't do it with a chrome one and I don't have burrs on my sockets.
mailpup
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Of course you shouldn't hold the socket that way and one should use an impact socket instead of a chrome socket but, that said, I'm sure people do it all the time just the same. I think using a chrome socket for impact purposes is especially common although not advisable.
Richard Cranium
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If you look at the soldering iron, not the girl for a moment, you can see that it is scorched from being hot, up where she is holding it...
soj
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I would NEVER hold a soldering iron that way, her hand is WAY too far from the tip for proper control. You just have to learn to **** it up!
Maui
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+1
Maui
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Of course, and whenever I buy a new motherboard I randomly find some capacitor leg to de-solder while resting the hot iron on the PCIE slot. Safety glasses help keep the smoke from burning plastic and flesh out of your eyes.
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rdog422
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Do you guys usually hold a soldering iron like this?
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yes, and i use the open end of a wrench to turn 12 point fasteners.
rodsnratfinks
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Yes wear your eye protection.
That looks like the containers that I used to get ice cream in, and I threw them all away! Darn!
K-Dog
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I wear gloves anyway.
Shadowdog500
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Do whatever you want, but I wouldn't be hanging onto a rotating socket. I still trying to figure out why you think you need to do this. Gloves will only catch into the socket and twist your hand around it.
Whatever you do, don't use your finger to remove a nut from the socket on an air gun..
Chris
Whatever you do, don't use your finger to remove a nut from the socket on an air gun..
Chris
Do whatever you want, but I wouldn't be hanging onto a rotating socket. I still trying to figure out why you think you need to do this. Gloves will only catch into the socket and twist your hand around it.
Whatever you do, don't use your finger to remove a nut from the socket on an air gun..
Chris
All I could say when I saw that was "HOLY ****!"
MikeF2316
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Close to what I said. Which was "HOLY F*CK!!"
Bierisch
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On a scale from, "That woman soldering" to "Using your finger as a stud" how bad is the pain?
Bobioz1
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Yes, people do hold impact sockets like that. I did it several times just today.
d.mcfarland
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I combined them and said S*** F***!
383
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She must be good, I usually need at least three hands when soldering, she's doing it with one.....
Would it kill you to post some kind of warning before you post something like that...