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Another Ouch! thread

Postby selectortone » 14 Jul 2017, 16:20

Managed to get some lathe time in yesterday, now the temperature in the workshop has dropped a bit.

I was polishing up a bowl using a dome polishing mop in a Jacob's chuck when the morse taper let go and the mop and chuck flew out of the lathe spindle at around 2500rpm, hit the bowl and bounced up into my face - fortunately soft end first, although it still felt like a punch from Henry Cooper.

Now, normally I wear eye protection on top of my regular glasses but I forgot. And of course s*d's law says that the one time you need eye protection is the time you forget to put it on.

The left lens of the specs took the brunt and is completely smashed in. I was seeing stars for about five minutes and there was quite a lot of blood. And it effing HURT like HELL!! The bruising you can see and I have a cut about an inch long under my eyebrow that took about two hours to stop bleeding. An icepack finally did the trick.

Vic (Woodster of these parts) - if you're reading this I'll be talking to you about tapping the arbor so that I can put a drawbar on it - it's not the first time it's come out like that.

Everyone else..... let's be CAREFUL out there! I'm a lucky man - I dread to think what would have happened if it had hit me arbor end first.

What my Geordie Gran would have called a "proper fat eye" :D

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Re: Another Ouch! thead

Postby Dalboy » 14 Jul 2017, 17:49

Ouch and ouch again.
I never use anything on a Morse taper in the head stock unless it is secured by a through bolt or the tailstock is brought up to support. A good decision on getting it drilled for a bar.
Yes you are right "I will only take this little cut and not bother to put on safety wear" many of us have done it.
Hope it stops throbbing soon
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby Tusses » 14 Jul 2017, 18:23

RudeBoy ... Don't call me ScarFace :shock:
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby selectortone » 14 Jul 2017, 18:38

I sent that pic to my daughter and she replied that I look "well 'ard" :lol:
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby Mike G » 14 Jul 2017, 21:40

selectortone wrote:......Image


Where does it hurt? :lol:
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby Rod » 14 Jul 2017, 21:59

Eye eye captain

Hope it gets well soon.

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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Jul 2017, 00:37

Bloody hell Obi Wan, could you not have used the Force to stop it???

Seriously though, very blooming lucky indeed, hope it's not too sore.

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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby Phil » 15 Jul 2017, 07:37

Ouch! :o Ouch! :o

You are extremely lucky, could have been very serious.
I once had a turning piece fly off the lathe over the right shoulder. I then bought full face protection.
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby selectortone » 15 Jul 2017, 13:46

TrimTheKing wrote:Bloody hell Obi Wan...


Obi Wan! haha, good one - that makes a change from Ernest Hemingway! :mrgreen:

Thanks for all the chuckles guys! :text-lol:
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby Rod » 15 Jul 2017, 14:16

I was thinking of this one:

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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby selectortone » 15 Jul 2017, 14:46

Ha! Yep, Cap'n Birdseye is another old favourite. And when the beard gets a bit long Uncle Albert from Only Fools And Horses. :lol:
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby Woodster » 15 Jul 2017, 16:21

Gosh Terry, that was a close shave. Glad it's not any worse.

RE: drilling the arbor, its likely quite hard so difficult to drill and tap even if you could hold it.
You need one of these:

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue ... bar-Thread

Plus some M10 threaded rod and a nut. I have some if you need it.

Edit: not sure if it would have made a difference in this case but I read the recommended speed for polishing mops is up to 1500, not 2500?
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby selectortone » 15 Jul 2017, 17:27

Thanks Vic. I'll order one of those. And it looks like I need to reduce the revs too!
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby Woodster » 15 Jul 2017, 18:53

As an afterthought, it might be safer still to use your collet chuck Terry. Providing that's held in with a draw bar. I say this as most drill chucks are simply pushed on the Jacobs taper on the end of the arbor and could come off. I've had the chuck drop off the taper on my drill press more than once although the Jacobs taper is not in very good condition. Both Morse and Jacobs tapers aren't designed to take sideways loads. I do have a threaded Rohm chuck on a morse taper but they are less common.
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Re: Another Ouch! thread

Postby RogerS » 16 Jul 2017, 07:45

selectortone wrote:.....
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You should have seen the other guy :lol:

Ouch...let's hope you recover fully and very soon.
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