But it's a good reminder for the "limited thinkers"
BS! Even if THAT particular vid may be fake, that could 100% happen to anyone using a cut off wheel on a grinder without the guard.
I have been using cut off wheels for 40 years. I generally order 75 a month. There is NO WAY that particular thing can happen. None. There is way too much give in the face mask. Perhaps if you had a light speed grinder and were working in a frictionless environment, but I haven’t seen one of those since my physics exams in college.
How can you say that? I have had disks fly apart on me and hit the wall, my leg. my arm. Don't tell me that cant happen because it DOES!
A lot of people remove the guards because they get in the way. If you do you have to be mindful if a disc should break and fly apart. I always use safety glasses as a minimum, but also use a face shield also with glasses. Too easy for a chunk to come flying at you and hit you in the face.
Hey, NOT trying to be insulting but the wisened old man saying, "I've been doing this for X years, sonny and there's NO WAY it can happen" only lacks "Get the hell off my lawn you damn kids!" to be perfectly stereotypical.
I called him out on it on the welding forum and he freely admitted that it was staged, so there should be no doubt.
I am not saying they don’t break apart, and FYI that is almost all user error, because you dropped the grinder, or hit the disk in some fashion. What I am saying is it doesn’t go through a perfect groove in a face shield like shown in the video. I have had a great many of them break apart, that is not how they behave.
I didn't have clue. Thank you for posting.
I was wearing a pair of safety glasses when grinding with an angle grinder. Somehow alarm got behind my glasses and into my eye. I had to go to the optha.ologist and have him pull it out with a pair of tweezers. Now I wear safety glasses that have a foam seal. Having a burn on your eye ball and a chunk of so.ething stuck in it is no fun. I was lucky that it ended up off to the side and not right in the middle of the cornea where it would have affected my vision. I got the lecture from the eye doctor to be more careful. (That's what I like about him, he doesn't sugar coat things.)
I tried arc welding without having every square inch of skin and my eyes covered ONCE when I was young and stupid. (Now I'm old and stupid but at least I wear ppe). Arc flash burns are no fun.
Yep, used to see it all the time. I don't watch YT stuff much anymore, so I don't know if it's still as prevalent as it was 4-5 yrs. ago.
Back in ancient times when I was in high school (‘68-‘72) there was a safety video they showed us that was old back then. A kid in shop class was drilling something in a drill press. He had long hair in a pony tail and it was tied back but one little strand fell forward and in an instant it was grabbed by the drill press, SLAMMED his head into the front of the press and pulled off about a 1” round chunk of his scalp!. The bare skull was exposed and totally white for a second then started bleeding like his head had been cut off. I’ve taken shop safety very seriously ever since I saw that!
Here's another picture I've saved to remind me of the exact same thing.
This guy was lucky the broken disc hit his lens. Lower and it would have cut right through his face into his sinus cavity!
Why are there so many deniers here? I have had discs break apart just like that a few times if I got them jammed in a cut. My grinders guards are removed also but am aware what can happen so always wear glasses and face shield when using them.