When I started work with my Bridgeport about 15 years ago, I noticed dents
in the labeled plate on the front of the power switch and wondered how they
got there. A couple of years later, I found out right after I forgot to
remove the box end drawbar wrench from the drawbar hex before firing up. It
felt like someone hit the knuckles on my left hand with a sledgehammer! No
permanent damage, but I sure as hell check for that wrench now.

RJ

"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message
...
A city wide blackout at Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:24:46 GMT did not prevent
"Tom
Gardner" from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the
following:
I thought I was paranoid about any machines other than a manual pencil
sharpener till I saw someone lay a finger open on one of those. I've had
enough close calls and minor bleeds to still make the little hairs stand
up
on my neck every time I hit a power button. My favorite is opening the
quick-change tool holder on the lathe and the handle swung into the
moving
chuck...sounded like a gun-shot and I found the big part of the handle 6
months later 50 feet away. Could just as easily holed my melon.

At the school I'm attending, in the grinding "alcove" there is a dent in
the wall about five, six feet up. Came from a handle left on a Bridgeport
vertical mill on the other side of the shop, some fifty yards away. Some
one
"forgot" it was up their when they applied power. revolve, revolve, zip -
"clang"! "Teacher, can I be excuse to change my shorts?"


peter

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."