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Old 10-18-2015, 08:16 PM
weldtoride weldtoride is offline
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Way, way, back when I was student teaching (1973), one day in class a kid walked up to the instructor, who couldn't help but notice a heavy crimped wire from the wire wheel stuck smack dab in the middle of one plastic lens of the kid's safety glasses, the kid wasn't aware it was there!

That concreted a precedent for yours truly who then went on to teach HS shop for 35 years, and consistently insisted on wearing glasses in the various shops I taught in. Even under welding hoods and when not operating machinery.

My own "thank the Universe" story was when a kid brought me his broken safety glasses, in pieces after a valve spring struck him in the glasses. The bridge of his nose was a little bruised, but his eyes were uninjured. I always stressed compressing valve springs with the spring orientated horizontally, not vertically, but being a teenager....
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