In article om,
Tom Gardner wrote:

[ ... ]

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.

Just out of curiosity -- was that a piston-style quick-change
toolpost? My Phase-II BXA size (series 200) wedge style won't swing the
handle far enough to contact the chuck. And I'm certainly glad of it.

Glad that it missed you.

Enjoy,
DoN.

--
Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564
(too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---