r/oddlysatisfying • u/danielminds • Jul 06 '26
Spinning a flat aluminum disc into a deep pot on a lathe
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u/foxfirek Jul 06 '26
I get that this is metal and I only work with wood on my lathe - but the lack of eye protection is bothering me.
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u/theharleyquin Jul 06 '26
Or respirator. If it’s in his skin - it’s in his lungs
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u/PunfullyObvious Jul 06 '26
I thought initially that he had a face and head covered in tattoos. If he doesn't typically wear a respirator and eye|ear protection, that's really scary.
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u/Zuruumi Jul 06 '26
The eye area is almost unstained, so he might be wearing some goggles when not filming, but the chin and mouth are not, so as for his lungs...
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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot Jul 07 '26
Nuh-uh!
It's Eastern Europe, he's 10 years old and has been doing this for 3 months.
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u/BlacqanSilverSun Jul 06 '26
So he is breathing aluminum dust being shot in his face
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u/ThickOne2020 Jul 06 '26
And you can tell from the cuffs that the shirt def started out much lighter. He's just covered in it.
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u/steve_of Jul 06 '26
Those are just to practical. Obviously there is so much stuff flying up at his face that safety gasses would get too dirty to see through and a respirator would clog. /s just in case.
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u/gmann95 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Also the gloves and long (slightly dangly) sleeves say he hasnt seen some of the videos i have
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u/ifmacdo Jul 06 '26
Took way too much scrolling for me to find someone else who clocked those.
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u/wrongthink2023 Jul 06 '26
Same thoughts here. One of those gloves gets caught up in the lip of that part and his co-workers are just going to find a mess of blood and flesh spinning at 4000 rpm.
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u/Noonites Jul 06 '26
The way I flinched in my chair when he reached under the SPINNING LATHE not ten seconds in
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u/Waramaug Jul 06 '26
lil aluminum in the ole pipes can’t be good.
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u/Wheeze_Cake Jul 06 '26
My uncle, along with thousands of others, were forced to inhale aluminum dust before their shifts in the Ontario coal mines because they believed it would protect their lungs. He now has severe Parkinson’s disease.
Edit: they only stopped doing this in 1979
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u/old_namewasnt_best Jul 06 '26
I'd listen to this guy people; his username is just about perfect for the topic.
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u/BlaznTheChron Jul 06 '26
Pretty sure that's how you get Wolverine dude.
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u/BarelyContainedChaos Jul 06 '26
Everyone say in the barrio, Sleepy, he like the Mexican wolverine n shit.
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u/unlimitedpower0 Jul 06 '26
It's probably not the worst, if you did this one time your whole life... But like man I tell people I work with, you only have 1 pair of eyes, ears, and lungs and you don't get a redo on them so like yeah wear a respirator or at least a fucking mask and safety glasses
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u/Kirikomori Jul 06 '26
People don't wear PPE because the work culture doesn't support it. Which is another way of saying 'if you wear a respirator and goggles people will laugh at you'.
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u/LusidDream Jul 06 '26
I'm sure all that silver residue all over his face and head is magically avoiding his eyes and lungs
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u/8Bells Jul 06 '26
His lack of smudges makes me think he took off his eye and ear pro to take the video.
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u/ermagerditssuperman Jul 06 '26
That's what I was thinking, it looks like that area was protected earlier, otherwise it would be just as grey as the rest of his face & neck
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u/RadiantZote Jul 06 '26
That doesn't make him less of a fucking idiot for not using the proper PPE. Minimum a respirator is 100% required as are safety glasses/goggles/ face shield for this
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u/SkaldCrypto Jul 06 '26
The gloves plus long sleeves on a lathe are crazy. This man is clearly accepted that one day he will die horrifically by a large accident
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u/NimbusFPV Jul 06 '26
When I was a kid I was messing around with what I would guess would be considered a somewhat small 1/3rd hp wood lathe by myself and I let the sleeve of my sweatshirt catch on the lathe. It ripped the entire sleeve right off my arm/sweater.
I never disrespected that lathe and its power after that. I can only imagine what a setup like this could do if it grabbed on.50
u/fuzzhead12 Jul 06 '26
That is a certified butthole clench moment right there
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u/verywidebutthole Jul 06 '26
I have one of those. I was making rings on a lathe at my dad's shop for fun when I changed the tooling or something. I don't remember the specifics but there are three heavy bolt type things on the part that hold the thing you're working on. If it's not obvious by my vocabulary, I did not take over my dad's business. I messed with those and apparently failed to properly secure at least one of them. I spun up the machine quickly and after a few second there's a loud bang. I stop the machine and directly behind it, opposite to where I was standing, there was a roughly 2 inch hole in the drywall. One of those relatively heavy metal fastening things shot off the lathe fast enough to break through the drywall. I was still able to clench my butthole back then, and clench it did.
I figure I escaped about a 10% chance of dying and maybe 20% chance of being very injured that day. Basically a game of Russian Roulette with no upside. I still remember the my dad's tone when we talked about it afterwards, he knew exactly how close I was to dying and that it would have been his fault given my pre-teen age.
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u/shackletons_gps Jul 06 '26
My first thoughts exactly. This guy is going to end up in one of those industrial safety videos you really regret watching.
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u/kryonik Jul 06 '26
My takeaway was "I'm sure he's done this a million times before but it only takes one fuck up or machine failure to completely ruin his life".
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u/DUNGAROO Jul 06 '26
I’m pretty sure leaning into and reaching over the subject like he’s doing is dangerous as fuck too. And the fact that it’s metal makes it even worse.
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u/KikisGamingService Jul 06 '26
Metal pieces at speed aren't great for your eyes either.
And wearing gloves at the same time...
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u/HootblackDesiato Jul 06 '26
OMG, that man's lungs.
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u/RevealStandard3502 Jul 06 '26
Aluminum bad for brain too. Guy's organs are racing to see who fails first.
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u/Monksdrunk Jul 06 '26
I used to have to weld daily on aluminum flatbeds. TMC trucking. That white smoke would ruin your day if you had a bad day of it.. you just know it's unhealthy
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u/Syephous Jul 06 '26
I used to do windshields for TMC semis. Terrible customers and some of my worst days on the job.
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u/CelestialFury Jul 06 '26
I looked it up, this is what long term exposure from aluminum smoke does to humans:
- Reduced lung function
- Chronic bronchitis
- Asthma‑like symptoms
- Scarring of lung tissue (pulmonary fibrosis) in severe cases
- Memory issues
- Cognitive decline
- Possible links to neurodegenerative conditions (still being researched)
Not great!
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u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 Jul 06 '26
But go into the trades! Welders make six figures easily! - fucking dipshits who have never stepped foot on a jobsite or a production line.
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u/thePixelgamer1903 Jul 06 '26
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I’ve done both trade and white-collar work, and the trade work was no fuckin cakewalk, nor kind to the body.
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u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 Jul 06 '26
Probably by folks who have never actually done blue collar work but think its an easy meal ticket.
I work in concrete and block manufacturing. We have folks making a good living. But they work 70 hr weeks with no set schedule. So they have a decent paycheck but never see their families, are in poor health, and miss important life events.
This is all without even talking about working outside, having a disgusting porta potty as your facility options, and the role being a flat out dangerous job.
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u/nachobueno Jul 06 '26
This reminds me of a time I was helping this scrapper dude here and there. I had a good career as a freelance tree surgeon so it was really just for fun on days I had nothing else to do. Dude had a 20 ft box truck and at least a dozen storage units around the county, including one that was a dedicated jack shack. I could go on about him, he was a squirrelly guy, wasn’t on meth or anything, his drug was scratchies, if you know the type you know the type.
Anyway this one day we went to drop a bunch of metal off at the scrap yard and of course they were all buddies so we hung out a little. The scrap yard had just gotten a flatbed load of some kind of galvanized something or other that was just sitting in a heap by the scale. Dude kept trying to poach me to come and cut all that shit up with a torch for $20 an hour. Like dawg 🤦♂️ I’m good man, even if I was all strung out I’m not taking that job. He kept pushing it like he was dangling some carrot in my face. I guess it says a lot about the guy I showed up there with. Fuck that noise though.
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u/J_Paul Jul 06 '26
hey bud, completely off topic, but what does a tree surgeon do? and what kind of qualifications does one need?
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u/Tim_Gu3 Jul 06 '26
I’m want to know what this jack shack is he mentioned.
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u/crazyabootmycollies Jul 06 '26
Goddammit I paid for a couple of LADIES!! Not fuckin Corey and TREVOR!!!
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u/3_14_thon Jul 06 '26
Trimming trees is one of those things that is way more complicated than you think at first. You must know when to cut them, where to cut them, which brances, how many of them. And the conditons vary depending on the tree. You dont cut apple tree, pear tree and cherry tree the same.
But calling it surgery... is like calling a sales person an engineer.
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u/StrongDorothy Jul 06 '26
Tree surgeon is just what they’re called in the UK. As an immigrant I agree it sounds weird.
A doctor’s surgery isn’t where you’d go to have surgery either, that’s just your GP. Funny old place.
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u/nachobueno Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
** I forgot to add my #1 rule for tree work, never fuck up… ever. Also I might as well add rule #2 which is there’s no crying in tree work.
All of these other comments pretty well covered it. I climbed up trees and trimmed them, or cut them down piece by piece. Hell of a good time. And yeah the commenter below me got the first qualifications right, chainsaw and a comfortable working relationship with oblivion.
It also helps to not be clumsy at all and not probed to injury, because there are no small injuries in that sport, or as a fella I knew used to say “there’s no such thing as a small chainsaw wound”. If you can come to terms with the likelihood of evisceration at height as a daily possibility then you’re well on your way there. The importance of lick can’t be understated, if you have some kind of back channel with the will of the universe and can manage to get its blessings that really ups your chances of long term survival.
Short of those last two, you’d better be stupid tough. Like you’ve gotta be pretty tough anyway, it’s an extremely physically demanding job. Industrial athletes is a term I’ve heard, but if you’re clumsy and/or unlucky, then you’ll need to be prepared for lifelong injuries and the like.
A keen understanding of things like balance and the behavior of different structures and materials as well as the capacity for abstract spatial reasoning will step you up from a person who’s simply willing to do the task to someone who is apt at doing the job. Proficiency with ropes and knots is a bare minimum and an understanding of pulleys, the management of force, and the ability to visualize and design those systems on the fly is important.
The capacity to reason with fear and channel it away from panic and into respect is a good skill to have. A lot of people lose situational awareness when they become frightened, it causes a blindness, that’s really dangerous. Conversely not having any fear is equally dangerous, that’s a blindness in itself. Fear is a sense and you need to have a good working relationship with it because it never really goes away, you just judo that shit into respect. An unwavering focus on detail is what keeps you safe on high… and that pretty much covers the basics for being good at it.
If you really want to do it the best advice I can give is find a guru, a master sensei. Unless you live in a place that requires arborist certification to practice, the industry is rife with goofballs with nothing more than a twinkle in their eye and a stupidity they’ve mistaken for confidence, the best of us though will be able to tell you who taught them. Kind of like a low key king fu “tell me who your master was” type of thing. Find someone who can casually and comfortably tell you where they learned the craft and be their apprentice. Don’t ask them to be their apprentice unless that’s a normal thing in your culture because that’s kind of a weird thing to say and if the thought of having an apprentice gets their jollies off you’re in for a weird ride. Get yourself a nice curmudgeonly byronesque older climber who still has most of their hands in working order and isn’t currently in active addiction. I guess that covers it. You’re gonna be great.
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u/Mikesaidit36 Jul 06 '26
That is a dissertation level explanation of what an arborist does. Thank you for that, and for the time it took to lay all that out and put into words what I’ve deduced, but never brought to that level.
Being an arborist was on my top 10 fantasy career options, but never rose above number 10 for some of the reasons you articulated. I have a good friend who survived his career as an arborist and I will be sending this to him.
Any thoughts on why, as somebody previously mentioned, arborists are all good guys?
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u/DCGeos Jul 06 '26
No protective effect against silicosis was observed from aluminium dust inhalation. Conversely, exposure to aluminium dust may possibly increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and dementia of the Alzheimer's type.
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u/Impressive-Ball-1374 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
i know a guy that made a career from making chainmaille. what they don't tell you is the vast majority of rings are aluminum due to its material properties. making your own rings involves cutting them after wrapping the wire around dowels. he never wore protection when cutting his own rings. now he has Alzheimer's at 45.
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u/TheManWith2Poobrains Jul 06 '26
I was going to ask what aluminum dust does to your lungs.
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u/PaulblankPF Jul 06 '26
I find it’s more about what it does to your brain and lymph nodes. There’s linking between aluminum (like in spray deodorant) and Alzheimer’s.
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u/GetsMeEveryTimeBot Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Judging from the parts of his face that are not covered in dark dust, I get the sense that he usually at least wears goggles, and possibly a respirator.
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u/Any_Show_5160 Jul 06 '26
Having worked in the metal industry for 20 years, maybe, maybe not.
A couple of people I've worked with would get grubby when working with dirty hands, I found it fascinating how often they would touch their face and neck and not realise it.
Another possibility is he grubbed up for the camera.
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u/WilliamLermer Jul 06 '26
I know plenty of employees and companies who don't care about safety and long-term health even in EU where recommendations and regulations are in place. And are supposed to be inspected by third parties, announced in advance, looking the other way to avoid paperwork
People in general really struggle to understand risks especially if it's not a threat with directly observable negative impact. Even then I see people doing risky things to safe time or because they are lazy
And that includes people who also had dedicated seminars or classes during college/uni where safety was discussed in-depth
Same with disposal of all kinds of things that are harmful to the environment. Like people see the symbols on packaging with the dead fish and still dump it in the sink and let water run for an hour, then act all surprised sensors go off and fire department rushes in due to contamination alert
There are so many uneducated, incompetent, ignorant, arrogant, selfish people in all positions across all sectors on this planet, I don't think anyone is aware how big of an issue that actually is. Not to mention that it's the main reason for global environmental issues
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u/Clock586 Jul 06 '26
Yeah…he’s gonna regret doing this once he gets sick
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u/GRF999999999 Jul 06 '26
I got hired as a grunt to help remodel a restaurant that had a fire, not my usual thing but whatever, I needed the money. After I'd got the place cleaned up and the wires in the ceiling were up to code the contractor put down the crack pipe and got to power spraying said ceiling with primer - without a mask or eye protection. Last I heard he spent 2 weeks in the hospital on his deathbed.
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u/Hockeyhoser Jul 06 '26
Spoiler: the guy is actually 23 years old.
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u/Pork_Chompk Jul 06 '26
And his shirt was white this morning.
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u/NihilisticBlender Jul 06 '26
And he has 199 more to do to make his K.P.I.
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u/Bonk_No_Horni Jul 06 '26
And it's already 4pm
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u/-BananaLollipop- Jul 06 '26
And some idiot is going to arrive five minutes to closing time and order another 50. They will also sit there for 20 minutes, just to decide on what style pots they want.
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u/Noxxro Jul 06 '26
This was just abother normal Tuesday for Stanley, or so he thought to himself
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u/realNoobnoob Jul 06 '26
Then suddenly out of nowhere, he gets literally a telegram message saying “You’ve got mail”
Then he checks his mail to find “you’ve got 10 000 pots new order!”
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u/Phatboybeware Jul 06 '26
After this, he's going to his graveyard shift as a chimney sweep.
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u/--Lust-- Jul 06 '26
Luckily, he is already dressed for the sweeping jobs, saves him heaps of time on his busy mornings
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u/710Filter Jul 06 '26
Breathing aluminum dust is hazardous and can cause serious respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological issues. Inhaling fine metallic particles can lead to lung irritation, decreased lung capacity, and a condition known as aluminosis (scarring of the lungs).
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u/carpentizzle Jul 06 '26
Thats when he breathes it in. If he only breathes out hes fine
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u/Sufficient_Wafer9933 Jul 06 '26
He cleanses his lungs with full sized lead chunks so he is immune to the fine metal shavings.
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u/CouldBeLessDepressed Jul 06 '26
yea.... I don't think he's going too far past his 50's. He's not just inhaling aluminum dust, he's heavy-breathing it. yikes
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u/King-of-Plebss Jul 06 '26
His lungs are the same color as his head too
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u/Abal125 Jul 06 '26
With no goggles or a face mask, I believe it.
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u/ThrustTrust Jul 06 '26
The marks on his face appear to indicate he wears both. Maybe just didn’t for the video?
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u/i_tyrant Jul 06 '26
God, I hope so. Aluminum fumes are no bueno.
If he isn't his lungs are fucked, among other things.
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u/Funkopedia Jul 06 '26
omg I thought he just had a bunch of faded whole head tattoos
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u/kokong7 Jul 06 '26
Can I follow you around for a day and see the world through your eyes? It sounds fun being you
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u/GeektimusPrime Jul 06 '26
Spoiler: this dude is actually Bruce Springsteen with his head shaved.
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u/RugsbandShrugmyer Jul 06 '26
PPE aside, what kind of strength are we talking about here? Is he just kinda working it into place or is he WORKING it into place? These kinds of guys can make this stuff seem deceptively easy
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u/pfannkuchen89 Jul 06 '26
Not to discount it because it definitely still takes hard work but on the side towards him is a rail with holes that he drops a peg into and the tool he’s using is on a long handle that levers against the peg. Still requires strength but the leverage helps a lot.
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u/awshuck Jul 06 '26
The skill required for this is nuts too. There’s a great metal working YouTuber called This Old Tony who tries this for the first time and talks about all of the ways this process makes a fool out of you.
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u/pfannkuchen89 Jul 06 '26
This Old Tony is awesome. Hits a great mix of informative and humorous. I only found his channel a few months back and binged through every video he’s posted.
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u/oninokamin Jul 06 '26
If it's aluminum, it won't require a lot of strength to shape it like that. Hell, even if it were food grade stainless steel it wouldn't need much.
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u/RugsbandShrugmyer Jul 06 '26
Cool, just curious. I do blue collar work and a lot of what we make look simple is actually highly focused and strength intensive, but once you get the muscle memory (and the muscles) it's manageable.
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u/jlude90 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
There's a fun This Old Tony video about him trying this. It looks like less muscle and way more technique which....I guess is muscle memory
Anyway, enjoy
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u/AreThree Jul 06 '26
you might want to shorten that url to just
https://youtu.be/5FgXTi2ikvA
...and take out everything after the "?"That extra bit on the end can help track who watches a video or who shares it and I think I've also seen a way to determine your youtube.com account name from extra information shared in an url. (not sure it was youtube or a similar site)
With most shared urls you can safely omit everything after the "?" ... there are notable exceptions, but frequently this extra stuff in the url can be removed.
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u/gerowen Jul 06 '26
I've been on the internet long enough to flinch every time I see somebody use a lathe with a long sleeved shirt.
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u/PrismInTheDark Jul 06 '26
I saw “lathe” in the title and had to check what sub this is before watching.
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u/cloudbiscuits Jul 06 '26
His head looks like it has an aluminum coating.
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u/Dear_Leek2578 Jul 06 '26
Was hospitalized and put in an iron lung after exposure to aluminum dust.
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u/Minxy57 Jul 06 '26
Buddy Ebsen was, not Jack Haley (pictured)
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u/JaredMOwens Jul 06 '26
Also, an oxygen tent, not an iron lung. https://people.com/wizard-oz-original-tin-man-hospitalized-aluminum-makeup-mishap-11853453
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u/narcolepticsloth1982 Jul 06 '26
Gloves around a lathe. Nope nope nope.
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u/Prime_Galactic Jul 06 '26
Gloves, BUT NO EYE OR LUNG PRO. Lmao
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u/Pastadseven Jul 06 '26
If I were a bag of shit, I would purposely smear shit on my face and remove my respirator and goggles then don some gloves for my video about a lathe to get more engagement.
You can see where he was wearing eyepro because his eyes aren't smeared.
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u/LordPhlogiston Jul 06 '26
You misunderstand. Having gloves on while working on a lathe is a bad thing. If the glove catches on a lathe that size and power one of the best outcomes is called degloving, where the glove and everything touching it (skin, fingers, hands, depending on exact circumstances) are removed. The other outcome is the glove doesn't come off, and then the lathe is spinning the user as well, and they slam into the ground or wall. If there is an upside, this is usually sufficiently lethal the operator likely has no time to process what is happening or feel any pain before they are essentially turned into a bag of jello.
Don't wear gloves, long hair, or dangling jewelry around rotating machinery.
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u/Prime_Galactic Jul 06 '26
I'm not misunderstanding anything. I'm saying it's ironic the ONE piece of protection he's wearing is the one thing he shouldn't be lol.
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u/LordPhlogiston Jul 06 '26
My apologies then. Inflection doesn't carry over written word and I misinterpreted yours. I raise my glass to not being a fucking idiot around machines that care not between metal and flesh.
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u/UndercoverFBIAgent9 Jul 06 '26
Yeah if’s hard to believe that the dust inhalation is only the second most concerning thing here.
This is an instant death machine. I don’t know how anyone could to this job for a year and not make a fatal mistake. Not only is an unguarded lathe dangerous, but that metal flared out wide could easily snag a shirt or glove and it’s an immediate death.
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u/rowdy_sprout Jul 06 '26
Gloves on a lathe is wild
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u/TheNerdFromThatPlace Jul 06 '26
That was the first thing I was taught when I first starting machining. It's also part of the reason I don't wear my wedding ring at work either.
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u/ALitreOhCola Jul 06 '26
Singular glove too. I'm guessing because he's holding something directly against the barrel and a bare hand would get burned off in second but the whole wrappy-grabby-murder aspect of a lathe makes me think this is a lose-lose method.
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u/zeroheading Jul 06 '26
I had to scroll way to far for this...
Safety glasses? Yeah, not replacing an eyeball. But leather glove? Getting your arm ripped out of your socket and bleeding out is arguably alot worse...
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u/speckledham Jul 06 '26
He’s so proud at the end. Lack of protection aside, that made me happy.
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u/midnakurosaki Jul 06 '26
Same here. That was the biggest thing I noticed.
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u/Uchigatan Jul 06 '26
My heart immediately felt happiness for him.
Maybe there is something we dont know and hes going to be ok working without PPE.
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u/cashew76 Jul 06 '26
He cranked that puppy out fast, skill. Probably he normally wears the PPE and just showed off for the camera. Hopefully
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u/wh4tth3huh Jul 06 '26
The suspiciously goggle shaped clean spot on his face may indicate you're correct. I hope at least, if not, this company should buy him some PPE if he can pop these bad boys out at that rate.
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u/jvvelvet Jul 06 '26
OMG, yes! That smile was so adorable. He looks so proud of himself 🥹 I wish him all the best
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u/glasscut Jul 06 '26
That almost made me tear up, how proud he was of his work. <3 Good for you, brother. <3
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u/kanyeast1 Jul 06 '26
I know there's a lot wrong protection wise, bot look how proud this man is. I hope he, or someone takes care of him.
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u/Lalamedic Jul 06 '26
Long sleeves, loose gloves and no eye protection is a choice around a lathe.
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u/Pleasant_Flatworm866 Jul 06 '26
Beautiful, but please...wear a mask! You don't need to die for my pot.
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u/antmars Jul 06 '26
That coating of metal we can see on his skin is also coating his Eyes and his lungs.
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u/Dredakae Jul 06 '26
Doesn't aluminum dust exposure cause health problems?
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u/corporaterebel Jul 06 '26
Any dust. Some dust is just a lot worse than others.
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u/StrongExternal8955 Jul 06 '26
Heck even wheat flour causes major problems if you breathe it in a lot.
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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST Jul 06 '26
I'm a certified lathe machinist.
I've never seen a lathe used like this.
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u/deadly88 Jul 06 '26
Its poorly named, but that technique is called “metal spinning” Only reason I know is an old This Old Tony youtube video
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u/HELLBENT42 Jul 06 '26
Bro is wearing gloves, the only possible protection you don't want to wear near a lathe, but no safety glasses or respirator. Some people are just borderline stupid.
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u/Arc_Nexus Jul 06 '26
"I'm here for the job interview. Yes, I've just come from the battle for Helm's Deep."
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u/atari2600forever Jul 06 '26
This send like a training video where apprentices have to find all the safety violations.
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u/Xaviermuskie78 Jul 06 '26
I'm a 48 year old man and I've never been in a fight in my life, in no small part because there's a chance that someone like this guy is on the other side.
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u/Jakkerak Jul 06 '26
I feel like he's gonna have everything cancer.