Ouch

[thefixer]

this hapened about 30 minutes prior to posting this thread. A piece of wood broke apart and flew out of the lathe at full speed. I gotta tell ya , I've thumped in the noggin plenty of times in my life but this was the daddy of all daddies. A lesson to all about safety gear. A couple of inches lower and would have lost an eye foe sure.

You all be careful out there.

Cheers
Shorty

[DJ’s Timber]

Yeowch, that's gotta hurt. Looks like you already have a humdinger of a lump there

[BernieP]

G'Day Shorty

Be more careful mate, you won't be able to live up to your end quote about the "good looking" etc.
Seriously, hope you're ok.

Cheers
Bernie

[WillyInBris]

Thats gota hurt mate .

Well OK I will wear that visor from now on as I have only been wearing safety glasses thanks for the warning.

[rsser]

It's a good look Shorty.

Would move things where I work.

[RufflyRustic]

Yeeeeeoooowwww

Glad it wasn't any worse!!!


I hope you don't end up with too much of a headache tonight....

cheers
Wendy

[Neal]

Man that was close to turning you into a cyclop , thanks for the post I just started turning so it looks like the face sheild gets dusted of.

[thefixer]

Thanks all for your concern. Very touching.
I went looking for the offending piece of wood after I had a couple of sedatives IE VB. It took me about half hour to find the little bugger. It has come off the lathe at the speed of light, bounced off me noggin , ricquochet off the fluoro light above the lathe ( note the white marks on the top left corner) and landed on some sheets of MDF up in the rafters of the shed. Bloody thing did more miles than Bourke and Wills. No wonder it left a mark. Reminds me of the mood ring i bought for swmbo. When she is in a good mood it is green and when she is in a bad mood it leaves a nasty red mark on my forehead.

Cheers
Shorty

[lubbing5cherubs]

owwh Mate That must be painful ... Don't let it get the better of you soon as you feel better see if yo can retame that wild beast that putting an argument up
Toni

[Stu in Tokyo]

Glad you are OK, that sucks, but yeah, it could have been a LOT worse!!

What were you wearing? Safety glasses at least?

I feel nakid with out my safety glasses on in the Dungeon, I imagine all sorts of stuff wanting to just leap up off my workbench and jam themselves into my unprotected eyes!

On the lathe, for everything but the final cuts, I wear my Triton Powered Respirator, I very much like the feeling of safety that large well made unit gives me!!

Again, glad you are OK!!

Cheers!

[DJ’s Timber]

That's a decent piece, your lucky it didn't knock you clean out.

Looks like a bit of Redgum, of just about all the horror stories that I have heard of pieces flying off the lathe, Redgum is right at the top off the list.

If you want solid bit with NO checking in it, let me know and next time I am down your way I will drop some off for you.

[soundman]

Oh No it is a horror show!

there is a bird that can help in situations like this.
now waht was it?

sparrow... no
eagle.... no
emu.... no far too big
chicken... nup


DUCK...... yep thats the one...... oh sorry too late


cheers

[DavidG]

Time for a triton respirator....

They are good for head butting low flying blocks...

Guaranteed by person tests.

[thefixer]

That's a decent piece, your lucky it didn't knock you clean out.

Looks like a bit of Redgum, of just about all the horror stories that I have heard of pieces flying off the lathe, Redgum is right at the top off the list.

If you want solid bit with NO checking in it, let me know and next time I am down your way I will drop some off for you.

Thanks heaps for the offer DJ but I have a fair bit of good redgum here. I was trying for that "special" piece of art and, well, what else can I say but I stuffed up. Lucky there was no brain damage. DUH.

Cheers
Shorty

[thefixer]

Oh No it is a horror show!

there is a bird that can help in situations like this.
now waht was it?

sparrow... no
eagle.... no
emu.... no far too big
chicken... nup


DUCK...... yep thats the one...... oh sorry too late


cheers

Can you make duck into humble pie?