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Re: When grinding, wear eye protection
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:27 pm
by alanworland
I can second that having had my head clamped in a frame and my eye being attacked with a scalpel (in a good way!)
Not something you want to repeat and my stained cornea did eventually lose the rust stain!
Alan
Re: When grinding, wear eye protection
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:10 pm
by The Scotmoose
Well there it is - We have all this great advice on looking after yourselve when welding, grinding, cutting. What did I do yesterday?? Yep, you've got it in one - I was merrily cutting through the master cylinder bolts on the moggy (which has neen put on the wrong way round by a previous owner and would not budge using sockets, spanners, hammers and lots of swearwords) and my grinder, which was fitted with a cutting disc decided to bite me. I now have an 1.5" deep cut to index finger after it skidded off bolt. 3 paper stitches and a dressing later and all was good (I had visions of not being able to do V sign, with my left hand. Master cylinder now in place and brakes to bleed. Moral of story 1 wear proper safety gear and 2 fit the freakin' bolts in the right way!
Re: When grinding, wear eye protection
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:33 pm
by svenedin
Sorry to hear about your accident. Wishing you a speedy recovery. The correct way round for those bolts is for the special thin head to be on the torsion bar side. The correct way is the very awkward way in this case. If the bolts are on the wrong way round they are much easier to remove but the torsion bar could hit the nuts and get damaged. If the torsion bar is scratched or gouged it could fail catastrophically. That is why the bolts are the way round that they are.
Stephen
Re: When grinding, wear eye protection
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:45 pm
by Bill_qaz
The Scotmoose wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:10 pm
Well there it is - We have all this great advice on looking after yourselve when welding, grinding, cutting. What did I do yesterday?? Yep, you've got it in one - I was merrily cutting through the master cylinder bolts on the moggy (which has neen put on the wrong way round by a previous owner and would not budge using sockets, spanners, hammers and lots of swearwords) and my grinder, which was fitted with a cutting disc decided to bite me. I now have an 1.5" deep cut to index finger after it skidded off bolt. 3 paper stitches and a dressing later and all was good (I had visions of not being able to do V sign, with my left hand. Master cylinder now in place and brakes to bleed. Moral of story 1 wear proper safety gear and 2 fit the freakin' bolts in the right way!
You need one of these warni gs for your angle grinder
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Hope it heals ok
Re: When grinding, wear eye protection
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:16 am
by The Scotmoose
Thanks guys - I heal quickly (which is just as well). Great sign! I should get a sticker of that to put on my grinder. I found getting the new bolts reasonably easy to get back in place. I used a small crowbar to move torsion bar a bit and got them in ok. Bleeding is a pain but pedal getting better each time I do it and it is already way better than it was before I renewed everything.