Model A shop accident

These stories remind me of one of the safety signs we have at work: "EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED". This one slogan applies to just about everything we do in a shop setting and if we would only apply it, we'd save a lot of hide!
 
Purdy,
God! what a WEIRD chain of events!! I thought I was the only one that could do such. I stumbled in the galley, grabbed the frig handle, door came open, sat on my kiester, frig ALMOST tipped over on me, almost emptied the frig, dog lickin' me & lappin' up the 1/2 & 1/2 on the floor. (Muscat wine bottle didn't break, WHEW!) Wish you a speedy recovery! Bill W.
 
Thanks Bill for the thought . I'm glad that the fridge didn't fall on you or it could have been Bills ghost for sure . Its good that Buster Brown helped you clean up the spills, God love em !
 
The drill press is the most dangerous machine in the shop. To many people don't secure there work. They just want to drill a quick hole, I've seen to many so called accidents over the years. YOU MUST ALWAYS SECURE YOUR WORK NO MATER HOW SMALL OR HOW QUICK YOU WANT TO DRILL THAT HOLE !!!!!!!!
 
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My 1/2" Milwaukee drill will spin itself right out of my hands if it catches, and if I were to hold on tighter, it would spin me around! :eek:
 
I've also witnessed people trying to drill a hole in a very simple innocent looking 1/8" thick x 1" wide x 12" long steel plate while holding it in one hand -- after 3 seconds, the bit "grabbed" & it was rotating at a high speed resembling that of a grass cutting lawn mower blade -- also extremely dangerous!
 
Purdy Swoft said:
Thanks Bill for the thought . I'm glad that the fridge didn't fall on you or it could have been Bills ghost for sure . Its good that Buster Brown helped you clean up the spills, God love em !
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Purdy,
Let Peppermint Patti lick your wounds!:D I take Plavix & bleed like a stuck pig from even a rose thorn, Dr. Buster T. Brown licks it & bleeding STOPS!:D Bill W.
 
Bill, I agree . I've always heard that. Thank goodness the bleeding stopped pretty quick. I've got antibiotic ointment on my skinned knees. Patti would love the ointment if I would let her. I would probably let the sweet little thing go ahead, but they're just too sore right now ..
 
Gord. B by the bay said:
Brass drilling bits are ground diierently than for steel steel is a sharper angle than for drilling in brass. Gord. B by the Bay
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I see that the bits for brass do not have a tight of twist and it seems that a straight flute like that of a tap is the best. Now to find a US supplier of these bits.

I figure I already have speciality tools for carbs why not add drill bits for brass plugs and such.

I'll start another post if I find a supplier.
 
My friend and I were working on his 29 Plymouth. It has a vacuum canister on the fire wall for a fuel pump. The vacuum canister had a bunch of screw holding the top on which were hard to remove because the screw slots were all widened by excess force or the wrong screw driver. I asked him to go to the hardware and buy a left hand bit. He felt he was being set up so I went and bought the bit. We removed all of them with the left hand bit. I think the heat from drilling helps with the removal.
 
Left Hand Drill Bits available at:

Amazon
Northern Tool
Harbor Freight
Lowes
Grainger
True Value
etc, etc.
 
When I was a kid the old man used to do a lot of logging in Northern Minnesota. Every once in a while we'd pile logs in the woods and skid them after a few weeks. And the yellow jackets loved to nest in the middle of the logs. We'd get stung a lot and it hurt but worse than the sting was the old man's method of taking the sting away. He always believed that the best thing was to rub mud on a bee sting to kill the pain. And in the middle of the woods, when the water jar was up at the landing the only way he thought to make mud was to spit in his had and take dirt and rub it into a ball and smear it on the stings. You talk about adding insult to injury. So one time I'm out there. I grabbed a log off a pile and out they came. I got stung once and I started running. I'd run and they'd sting and I'd holler, and they'd sting and I'd holler. And when they quit stinging I kept running because all I could think of was the old man was going to rub his spit mud balls all over me.
 
Many of us luckily escape what can be a life long injury. I was always told you can walk with a wooden leg ,but you can't see with a glass eye. Get in the habit of using various size blocks of wood between what you are drilling and the back column of the drill press. If you feel the urge to hold onto what you are drilling or reaming hold it with a vise grip, or clamp and don't make the mistake of nesting any of your fingers in the clamp. Vise grips, clamps and other material used to hold a piece never experience the pain from a mistake so USE them and always wear a shield of some sort over the eyes!
 
Being a retired ( now ) Tech teacher, that's one of the first rules when teaching drill press operation. I have to think you were also taught that by a teacher. You are lucky.
 
PetesPonies said:
Being a retired ( now ) Tech teacher, that's one of the first rules when teaching drill press operation. I have to think you were also taught that by a teacher. You are lucky.
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Pete,
I thank God for woodshop, metal shop, and auto shop teachers that taught us IDIOTS about shop safety!!:D I still have ALL my fingers! Auto shop teacher, John Rude, even taught us the fine art of how to tow with a chain safely & how to push a car safely if you had NO chain.:eek: Of course, that was when cars had REAL BUMPERS.:) Bill W.
 
DRILL PRESS: ***A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks
you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner
where nothing could get to it.
 
My boys bought me a buffer for christmas one time. A friend came to the shop one day when i was fixing to buff a piece of stainless for the first time. As he was leaving he said be care full they are dangerous, he had not got out the door until the stainless left my hand hit and cut my face and stuck in the top of the shop. I still shake when i think about it. Br careful.
 
howie123 said:
brass always has a tendancy to grab. It can be difficult to machine with standard cutting tools. the key is to eliminate the back rake on the tool, whether on a lathe tool or a drill bit. a few strokes with a stone over the cutting edges on the drill bit will eliminate the rake, just don't over feed it. Of course the dit will need to be resharpened when you want to drill steel. Howie
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very important!!!!!!

cw
 
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