[AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

Mon Aug 8 13:31:45 PDT 2016

That is what I do, and if I get a little sloppy, it lets me know

Paul - IN


On 8/8/2016 2:37 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>   From now on when I shut the switch off, I will stop the wheel on
> something before i turn it loose..
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
> On 8/8/2016 1:23 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Alan,  I think that's what I said.  I didn't say they often do that
>> but when they fail that's how and since they aren't used for grinding
>> you don't often hear of the accident with them that Cecil had.
>> It can happen but the things are somewhat fragile and they will bind and
>> break.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan Nadeau
>> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 11:34 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] off topic some Angle Grinders
>>
>> In over 35 years of using cutting discs I don't think I have had one fly
>> apart unless it was first jammed and twisted in the cut enough to break the
>> reinforcing mat they are composed of.  There are smaller versions than what
>> we generally run on angle grinders that are bonded abrasives, think bench
>> grinder type "stones", those WILL come unglued quite easily.
>>
>> Most of my use of the discs has been on Metabo® brand grinders.  They have a
>> slip clutch which will slip before they will twist a reinforced disc into
>> pieces.
>>
>> I have received a few minor grinding injuries, mostly just enough to wipe
>> off the outer layer of skin.  Kinda neat, in a sick sort of manner, to see
>> the blood starting to show up when the capillaries start to leak.
>>
>> My only real serious encounter was when I was using a "knotted" wire wheel.
>> That's a heavy wire brush where the wires are in tightly twisted clusters
>> around the perimeter of the center plate, generally used for paint/rust/weld
>> slag removal/cleaning.  I was holding the part in my left hand and running
>> the grinder with my right around the barrel of the tool.   This was a Metabo
>> with the locking switch and, luckily, the slip clutch.
>>
>> The brush snagged on an edge of the part and the grinder was twisted out of
>> my hand.  It jumped back and to the left, completely unrestrained, and
>> snagged my tee shirt like a wildcat, a wildcat with 10,000 rpm claws.  Wound
>> itself up in my shirt and across my belly.  Shredded the shirt and was
>> flopping around in the debris of that before it finally wound in tight
>> enough for the clutch to release, stopping the action so I could corral it
>> and reach the switch.  The shirt was trashed and I was leaking from a whole
>> bunch of the electric wildcat's claws.  Nothing very deep but it did,
>> indeed, look like I had lost a fight with a cat.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen Offiler" <soffiler at gmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 8:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] off topic some Angle Grinders
>>
>>
>>> Absolutely.  As the cut gets deeper, it gets harder and harder to keep
>>> them
>>> square in the cut, and a snag becomes increasingly likely.  BTDT, often.
>>> Cutting things like angle iron I always scribe both legs real deep and
>>> then
>>> go at each leg the flat way, so depth of cut is never more than the
>>> thickness of the leg.  Of course cutting things in odd places (like rusted
>>> bolts) all bets are off.
>>>
>>> SO
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 8:03 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem you usually hear with those discs (I call them cut off discs)
>>>> is that they snag and shatter throwing pieces into flesh and eyes.
>>>>
>>>> Charlie
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Cecil Bearden
>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2016 5:47 PM
>>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] off topic some Angle Grinders
>>>>
>>>> It cold have been worse, I bo ught some of those 7in discs to cut with
>>>> (0.045thickness),  from sportsman's guide on clearance.  I was going to
>>>> try one of them, bu I would have had to find the wrench to take the big
>>>> blade off.  In 55 years of working with these things, it is the first
>>>> time one got me.
>>>> cecil in okla
>>>>
>>>> On 8/7/2016 3:40 PM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
>>>>> Cecil,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry about that. I got my left little finger when trying to sharpen
>>>> mower
>>>>> blades with the mower on trailer ramps. Was not using gloves. Just
>>>>> thank
>>>>> God it was not worse.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dennis
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Aug 7, 2016, at 1:54 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am relating this to maybe save some of  you the pain and trouble I
>>>>>> am
>>>>>> in right now.   I was cutting bolts out of the rusted floorboard of my
>>>>>> 93 IHC 4700  old OK dot truck..   Salt has eaten through the
>>>>>> floorboard.   The bolts had to be cut out.  I was using a 4-1/2 in
>>>>>> angle
>>>>>> grinder, on my knees and holding myself u p with the right hand and
>>>>>> using the grinder in my left.  My work gloves were in my other
>>>>>> truck.....  When I switched off the grinder, I set it on the
>>>>>> floorboard
>>>>>> and the spinning blade hit the back side of the cab and jumped up
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> 3 inches and cut across the big joint of my thumb on my right hand.
>>>>>> the blade was one of those 0.045in cutting blades. I can see the
>>>>>> tendon
>>>>>> that moves the thumb moving in the cut.  It will be a few days before
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> can get back to work, and I am right handed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had safety glasses, but no gloves...    I was too busy to go get
>>>>>> them..   Now with the bandage, i cannot really type, the way I make a
>>>>>> living now, I write reports.   I have a bandage on the right hand like
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> boxing glove.   Don't make the same mistake I did, wear those gloves
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> safety glasses and shields.   The grinder had a shield, and was turned
>>>>>> off.  If it had still been running, it would have been a lot worse.
>>>>>> It
>>>>>> was just winding down...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> End of rant!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cecil in OKla
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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