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Martin Eastburn Martin Eastburn is offline
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Default Gloves for turning

The problem with gloves is they might or could get caught in the turning
and break a wrist or finger.....

High speed of the spindle exceeds the level of safety even on a thin glove.

Martin

On 1/31/2014 5:36 PM, G. Ross wrote:
I got tired of purple hands while roughing out black walnut blanks. I
found that HF nitrile gloves are the answer. Grip is ok and if they
snag they will not pull your hand into the work, it just tears a chunk
out of the glove. So they seem safe to use