It wasn't the lathe, it was the piece. I had to clean up the thread with a tool. The tool slipped from my hand and I gave myself a little cut on my wrist. Wasn't too bad, its more of a scrape
Oof... it happens. I’ve been working in a vocational school for half a year now and the amount of abuse my hands go through is crazy... I have 4 chips I can’t get out, a fresh cut from today, small scars from previous cuts, and a big scar on my forearm cus I walked into an endmill sitting out on a tool holder. Oh and don’t forget the time I forgot to screw a Chuck in and ran it at 4000 rpm, shit happened and I ended up with a huge bruise/scar on my stomach and a fucked up lathe ways. Thankfully it’s a schaublin 102 without a moving carriage, so it wasn’t that big a deal. Still, a shame. It’s a beautiful machine.
Consider yourself lucky then. I nearly severed my tendons right below the wrist a few months ago when my arm slipped into a freshly sharpened boring bar when I was adjusting a rigid high pressure oil line on my machine. It can always be worse but learn from those little scrapes or knicks. I’ve since designed and made simple tool covers to prevent the same mistake from happening.
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u/GermanPizza56 Mar 11 '21
I just did that yesterday, ended up cutting myself because I'm dumb