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Old 12-12-2017, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by lots2learn View Post
Cuttoff wheels cause a lot of terrible injuries. I wear leather gloves and a welding helmet with clear lens whenever using mine. My Metabo 5" angle grinder has a clutch and a quard that can be adjusted without tools.

Most of us could use cutoff wheels without any protection other than safety glasses our whole lives and never get an injury. But would you want to be missing a finger or an eye when not necessary. Just google cutoff wheel injury images. Some ugly stuff.

When I worked in a machine shop a coworker said he was puzzled how I almost never cut myself in the machine shop(careful) but raced shifter karts that went over 100mph with no seat belt and crashes where common. I explained my cautiousness this way: Your at at party talking up some hot thing, How did you lose your fingers? I would rather say it was in a racing accident(mitigated risk) versus. There was this spinning bit on a machine so I stuck my finger in it.
Haha, loved reading this one ...
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