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Old 10-19-2015, 04:41 AM
Charlie Myres Charlie Myres is offline
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Good post Mark! I also went mad when I was young bloke and became a teacher.

With regard to whether the wire brush should be guarded or not, I have always preferred to have it unguarded for the following reasons;
1. I met a fellow teacher once who had witnessed someone who had had his hand dragged into the space between the wheel and the guard; I think he may have been wearing gloves, which compounded the problem. In any case he had to wait for the machine to stop before he could pull his fingers free. His advice to me was to leave it unguarded so that an errant hand would bump clear and to never wear gloves.

2. With regard to the errant bristles, I think that the ones that hit us are flung out of where there is a gap in the guard anyway.

I have had great success with twisted-wire brushes; they rarely seem to hit me with bits, unlike the straight wires, which would leave me looking like a hedgehog,

Cheers Charlie
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