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Old 11-21-2015, 10:47 AM
fridofreak fridofreak is offline
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Hello Mark,

Thanks for the warning here for those that did'nt know that, for myself i did have bad luck with a wire wheel based on a grinder.
I was cleaning my front axel of the first beetle i've restored (20 years ago) it was in the summer it was hot and i was wearing a full face mask.
I did'nt see the end result because of the swet dripping of my face on to the mask, i took it of and saw a small spot that need to be cleaned i did not put on the mask and in a few seconds a wire flew right in my eyeball!!!
It was like somebody shot a stone with a catapult in my eye, for a second everything went black and wen i was able to see something i managed something is in front of my eye......
I thought it was in my eyelid but when i toucht it every singel muscle in my body was shaking, i knew what happend and i need to pull that wire out of my eye and i felt that my eyeball was comming forward as i pulled it out....
At that moment i need to sit down my face was totally white and i did'nt feel so well.
I could managed to drive with my car to the eye-specialist and he told me after he checked and cleaned my eye that i was very very lucky because in the center of the eye there is "eyefluid" inside and when that starts to run out i was going to be blind!!!!!
So always where face protection and safety ware like leather !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards Wesley
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