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> Perhaps the story is just Urban Folk Legend, and improvable, but
> you'll think about that grim possibility when you consider wearing
> work gloves to buff, I guarantee you.
Jay's story might or might not be true, if he didn't witness it
personally, or know someone who did, etc. But the story I told
earlier in this thread, of a young (maybe 20 years old) polisher who
did loose a finger in a glove, happened in 1989, and I was six feet
away using a cleaner on the other side of the polishing room when it
happened. I didn't see it happen, but heard it, saw the towel wrapped
hand, the bloody glove and the both of them with the shocked young
man all bundled off quickly to the emergency room, where surgeons
found the finger too mangled to reattach. No tendons pulled from the
arm, but this was bad enough. This one happened. No urban legends
here.
Polishers can be dangerous. I also recall the fellow graduate
student, my first year in grad school, who was buffing edges of these
triangular pieces of titanium sheet. about 3 inches on a side, she
was using a big stand up industrial machine. Maybe 18 inch wheels, no
dust guard or good. Gloves played no part in this, but it illustrates
the fact that buffers can be dangerous with even a moments
innattention or error in technique. The point on one of those
triangles snagged in the buff, which grabbed it, whipped it around
about 180 degrees or so before it let go, which threw it right back
at her like some sort of ninja throwing star. One of the points hit
her square in the sternum where it stuck. She walked back into the
grad studio and asked whether it would be Ok to just pull it back out
by herself. I think the pain hadn't quite hit yet... If that had hit
just a bit to either side, and not hit her sternum, it could have
been much worse. Might easily have penetrated her chest wall had it
hit between ribs...
And there are more war stories. Personally, I've been pretty lucky
over the years. A few whacked fingers when chains broke or a ring
jammed on a felt ring finger buff, but nothing seriously broken.
Yet.
Please be carefull when buffing. I said it before, and will repeat
it. In my opinion, buffing motors are among the most potentially
dangerous machines we use. Use then right and with care, and they
work magic for us. Use them wrong, and they can be instantly
unforgiving.
cheers
Peter Rowe
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