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"