On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 7:36:12 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 20:43:36 GMT, Puckdropper
wrote:

gray_wolf wrote:

On 10/18/2019 6:56 AM, wrote:
I lost 3/4 of my left index finger to a table saw. It was all due to a brain fart. Carelessness kicks in at the worst times........


It sure does. I was drilling a piece of brass on my un-bolted down drill press
vice when
the bit broke and slammed the vice through a sheet rock wall. I later learned about
breaking the drill bit edge for proper brass work.

un-bolted down drill press vice

Make sure you don't miss the other lesson, bolt that sucker down!!! I
realized a few years ago how dangerous those benign-looking drill bit
spinners can be after a friend's coworker got killed by something
similar. Bolt it down, use a fence, do what it takes to keep things
controlled!

And do it right even when it seems ridiculous--you want to form a
habit.

I remember a time when I had spent a week planning a project that I was
going to spend all day Saturday working on. I was really looking forward
to a full day in the shop. Saturday came, I got up, got dressed in my shop
clothes and went into the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. SWMBO said
something about something, I replied, it got heated and I got ****ed. I
mean really ****ed.

After we argued for a few minutes over something stupid, I stormed off to
the shop, just about ready to boil over. I opened the shop door, slammed it
behind me, looked at all those nice sharp power tools and said to myself
"Are you an idiot? Are you really planning to use a table saw *now*?"

I walked right through the shop, went out the back door and started raking
leaves. Screw the project, it can wait. Raking mad is a lot safer than
sawing mad.