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Question: "What's your favorite part of metalworking?" Yeah I know, I have a bad attitude. |
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On Oct 5, 5:17 am, John Doe wrote:
Question: "What's your favorite part of metalworking?" Yeah I know, I have a bad attitude. I was straightening a bent wheel rim by holding a punch in my left hand and striking it with a 5lb hammer. I felt a pinch between my left thumb and index fingers, and blood started flowing. It turns out that a steel flake (2mm diameter, .5mm thick) broke off the punch and projected into my palm. It buried so deep that I couldn't see it---I think it embedded itself at least a quarter inch deep. I grabbed one of those hard disk supermagnets and applied it to my hand; I felt the metal flake twitching. I was able to manipulate the magnet and pull out the flake, and kept it as a reminder to use gloves and glasses. At least I was wearing safety glasses. |
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:28:42 -0000, with neither quill nor qualm,
" quickly quoth: On Oct 5, 5:17 am, John Doe wrote: Question: "What's your favorite part of metalworking?" Yeah I know, I have a bad attitude. I was straightening a bent wheel rim by holding a punch in my left hand and striking it with a 5lb hammer. I felt a pinch between my left thumb and index fingers, and blood started flowing. It turns out that a steel flake (2mm diameter, .5mm thick) broke off the punch and projected into my palm. It buried so deep that I couldn't see it---I think it embedded itself at least a quarter inch deep. I grabbed one of those hard disk supermagnets and applied it to my hand; I felt the metal flake twitching. I was able to manipulate the magnet and pull out the flake, and kept it as a reminder to use gloves and glasses. At least I was wearing safety glasses. Ooh, supermagnet as splinter removal tool? Good show. I'll have to remember that! The teensy metal splinters are the worst type. -- Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. -- Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003 |
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:25:22 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:28:42 -0000, with neither quill nor qualm, " quickly quoth: On Oct 5, 5:17 am, John Doe wrote: Question: "What's your favorite part of metalworking?" Yeah I know, I have a bad attitude. I was straightening a bent wheel rim by holding a punch in my left hand and striking it with a 5lb hammer. I felt a pinch between my left thumb and index fingers, and blood started flowing. It turns out that a steel flake (2mm diameter, .5mm thick) broke off the punch and projected into my palm. It buried so deep that I couldn't see it---I think it embedded itself at least a quarter inch deep. I grabbed one of those hard disk supermagnets and applied it to my hand; I felt the metal flake twitching. I was able to manipulate the magnet and pull out the flake, and kept it as a reminder to use gloves and glasses. At least I was wearing safety glasses. Ooh, supermagnet as splinter removal tool? Good show. I'll have to remember that! The teensy metal splinters are the worst type. Doesnt work worth a damn though on those nasty festering little brass splinters, the kind I get most often working on CNC equipment. Gunner |
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In article , Gunner wrote: snip Ooh, supermagnet as splinter removal tool? Good show. I'll have to remember that! The teensy metal splinters are the worst type. Doesnt work worth a damn though on those nasty festering little brass splinters, the kind I get most often working on CNC equipment. One of the worst splinters in the world is fibergalss insulation. Too small to see, too small to tweeze, and annoying as hell. One trick that works well is to rub a piece of duct tape over the affected area & then peel it off. That will frequently do the trick. Doug White |
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After a Computer crash and the demise of civilization, it was learned
Gunner wrote on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:22:50 -0700 in rec.crafts.metalworking : On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:25:22 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:28:42 -0000, with neither quill nor qualm, " quickly quoth: On Oct 5, 5:17 am, John Doe wrote: Question: "What's your favorite part of metalworking?" Yeah I know, I have a bad attitude. I was straightening a bent wheel rim by holding a punch in my left hand and striking it with a 5lb hammer. I felt a pinch between my left thumb and index fingers, and blood started flowing. It turns out that a steel flake (2mm diameter, .5mm thick) broke off the punch and projected into my palm. It buried so deep that I couldn't see it---I think it embedded itself at least a quarter inch deep. I grabbed one of those hard disk supermagnets and applied it to my hand; I felt the metal flake twitching. I was able to manipulate the magnet and pull out the flake, and kept it as a reminder to use gloves and glasses. At least I was wearing safety glasses. Ooh, supermagnet as splinter removal tool? Good show. I'll have to remember that! The teensy metal splinters are the worst type. Doesnt work worth a damn though on those nasty festering little brass splinters, the kind I get most often working on CNC equipment. Dial calipers. They already have a set of "rigid" flat mating surfaces, and are usually handy. I know they work on Al slivers. (The trick is finding the blasted sliver... pyotr -- pyotr filipivich "Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. " Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 45 AD (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.) |
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pyotr filipivich wrote:
After a Computer crash and the demise of civilization, it was learned Gunner wrote on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:22:50 -0700 in rec.crafts.metalworking : On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:25:22 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: Ooh, supermagnet as splinter removal tool? Good show. I'll have to remember that! The teensy metal splinters are the worst type. Doesnt work worth a damn though on those nasty festering little brass splinters, the kind I get most often working on CNC equipment. Dial calipers. They already have a set of "rigid" flat mating surfaces, and are usually handy. I know they work on Al slivers. (The trick is finding the blasted sliver... You can also revert to childhood... Sometimes pouring a little Elmers glue over the area, then waiting for it to dry and peeling it off will take that splinter right out! Stuart |
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Maybe the punch you were using was in very good, or even new condition, but
I've seen embedded chips in hands and forearms (nasty wounds), and they were caused by chisels and punches with mushroomed heads/tops. A good way to prevent chips from flaking off punches and chisels is to keep any mushrooming from taking place by grinding any "bloom" away, before the tool chips. I believe the heads/tops of the tools should have a small chamfer and a very slight crown to combat the mushrooming effect. WB .......... metalworking projects www.kwagmire.com/metal_proj.html wrote in message oups.com... On Oct 5, 5:17 am, John Doe wrote: Question: "What's your favorite part of metalworking?" Yeah I know, I have a bad attitude. I was straightening a bent wheel rim by holding a punch in my left hand and striking it with a 5lb hammer. I felt a pinch between my left thumb and index fingers, and blood started flowing. It turns out that a steel flake (2mm diameter, .5mm thick) broke off the punch and projected into my palm. It buried so deep that I couldn't see it---I think it embedded itself at least a quarter inch deep. I grabbed one of those hard disk supermagnets and applied it to my hand; I felt the metal flake twitching. I was able to manipulate the magnet and pull out the flake, and kept it as a reminder to use gloves and glasses. At least I was wearing safety glasses. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:19:58 -0400, "Wild_Bill"
wrote: Maybe the punch you were using was in very good, or even new condition, but I've seen embedded chips in hands and forearms (nasty wounds), and they were caused by chisels and punches with mushroomed heads/tops. A good way to prevent chips from flaking off punches and chisels is to keep any mushrooming from taking place by grinding any "bloom" away, before the tool chips. I believe the heads/tops of the tools should have a small chamfer and a very slight crown to combat the mushrooming effect. About 60 years ago my brother was wounded in the leg by a chip from the back of a splitting axe. He had been unable to find the proper splitting wedge and had resorted to hitting the splitting axe with a sledge hammer when a chip, roughly the size of a green pea left the axe head and was embedded about two inches deep in his calf muscle. Apparently the back face of the axe was very hard and the shock caused the chip to eject. I have always been very careful to remove any mushrooming from the striking face of tools. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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A while back, a friend gave me a blood sugar test kit, and a box of lances.
The lances are similar to a hypodermic needle point, mounted in a plastic holder. Using them under a magnifier lamp makes easy work of extracting fine metal shards for me. Since these things are really sharp, they work much better at getting fine metallic splinters out when a little cutting is required. These things are so sharp that you don't want to have an uncontrolled or unanticipated movement of the hand that you're holding the lance with. I don't know how much they cost, because I haven't used up the full box that was in the kit. My old standby used to be the tip of a new, cleaned utility knife blade. The small Exacto knife blades have worked sometimes, too, if they're really sharp. Some times, ya just gotta excavate some flesh to get to the shard. Both of these methods work much better for me than an ordinary sewing needle. WB .......... metalworking projects www.kwagmire.com/metal_proj.html "John Doe" wrote in message . .. Question: "What's your favorite part of metalworking?" Yeah I know, I have a bad attitude. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:18:41 -0400, "Wild_Bill"
wrote: A while back, a friend gave me a blood sugar test kit, and a box of lances. The lances are similar to a hypodermic needle point, mounted in a plastic holder. Using them under a magnifier lamp makes easy work of extracting fine metal shards for me. Since these things are really sharp, they work much better at getting fine metallic splinters out when a little cutting is required. These things are so sharp that you don't want to have an uncontrolled or unanticipated movement of the hand that you're holding the lance with. I don't know how much they cost, because I haven't used up the full box that was in the kit. My old standby used to be the tip of a new, cleaned utility knife blade. The small Exacto knife blades have worked sometimes, too, if they're really sharp. Some times, ya just gotta excavate some flesh to get to the shard. Both of these methods work much better for me than an ordinary sewing needle. WB ......... There _are_ some advantages to being a diabetic :-) Couple of months ago I used part of the collection of used up disposable syringes and needles to repair a crack in the house wall by injecting PVA glue into the crack at 1/8" intervals. Used 40 syringes up by blocking up/wrecking the needles. There was a plentiful supply since I save them up to melt them down to avoid getting lethal bits of stainless steel into land-fill. Used to run my Mamod steam engines on industrial methylated spirits provided by the British NHS. Kept the syringes in boiled water to give me more steam engine fuel G Mark Rand RTFM |
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