Thread: Tips/Tricks on avoiding the "Bloody hell its hot and down my shirt" dance

I use an old style dust coat and button it up BUT that doesn't stop the hot swarf landing inbetween my toes. Maybe time to get rid of the japanese safety boots

I find the worst is getting bits down the shirt, or caught in the stubble

Thinking ill make a little perspex chip guard but attach it with magnets to the top cover, so its quickly and easily removable for larger items.

Do what I do and get a brazilian and wear nothing...Then it won't catch anywhere But you have to watch other bits getting caught in the feed screw....

Don't, I repeat don't leave your overalls open when all you've got on underneath are a pair of nylon budgie smuglers and you're taking serious roughing cuts on EN36. Nylon jocks stick when they melt DAMHIKT.

I think my skin is used to small burns after many years of welding but I do what I can to stop the swarf attacking me. I'm the same as fxst above, I wear a shop coat buttoned up to the neck over overalls and long work boots with my hair tied back. That solves the chips down the clothes issue - but it doesn't solve the problem of swarf embedding itself in in my long beard. She who must be obeyed usually finds it at the most in-opportune time!

If you have any steel banding laying around, you know the stuff that is wrapped around loaded pallets to stop the load from escaping, well, go cut of a bit about a couple of inches long. Undo the screw holding the tool down closest to the workpiece, insert the bit of steel banding, lock down the tool screw, bend the banding up a tad to clear the workpiece and align it over the top of the cutting tip.
Now them big blue bloody hot chippies are deflected down towards the chip tray, you can now shove your nose back over the job and watch what's going on once again.

If your hacking away at brass or bronze and getting showered in $hite, then grab an old buggered paint brush and shove that over the tool tip, now them hot little chippies are headed for the chip tray where they belong. Another good dodge for brass and bronze is, if you can, turn the tool over so the cutting tip is upside down, then run the lathe in reverse, all chippies now instantly go down into the tray.

john

At the moment im finding its the ones which arnt flying off immediately but rather make it a whole revolution and then spit up the back on the upstroke again and sizzle into my face/body.
Was tempted last night to tape the collar on my coat around my neck to stop any more going down.

Dont stand directly in front ,stand off to one side.

there is a shop called "Reverse Garbage" in South Brisbane. they sell odds and ends, and business off cuts of just about anything, and one thing they get cheaply is the off-cuts of the clear plastics used by sign makers. Very cheaply. and all sorts from the Poly vynial to the cyanoacrilic.

so for only 2 dollars, I can end up with several different size viewing shields, that I then attach to my lathe by sticking Pot Magnets to them (with hot melt glue), or tap a 3mm countersunk bolt through them if they are a bit heavier. has quite a range of sizes..

quickly stops the shrapnel... and yet still lets me see what is going on.

Quickly removed, and cheap enough that if damaged they are easily replaceable..

There should be plenty of plastic's people with off cut bins out there...

Regards, Sandy

You could try a wood turning supply place for a woody's turning smock which has a velcro adjustable collar for keeping splinters out.

Christian

I use old faceshield lens as a "handheld" shield. They are curve and clear so you can hold them where ever the chips a coming from and still see thru it, but I do still just kinda peek around it when getting close to the should on a cut. They work well on the mill too!
al