Maggie’s This is how not to operate a lathe!

[Dennis_in_VA]

Looks like some unsupervised kids in a school vo-tech shop.

Dummy went for a ride. Good thing the lathe was in low gear and was able to stop quickly.


lathe video

 

[Sean the Nailer]

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wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

Oh man do I ever cringe, when I see things like that. Yes, obviously he was tightening (screwing around with) the chuck wrong.

At no time EVER should anyone else be even thinking of starting it, let alone 'doing it'. ARrggg

We had a kid in our shop class, who went around sabotaging other's lathes on purpose. He'd put the chuck key in, at the back. So that when whomever came back to their work, and turned the machine on, it would fly/catapult across the shop. Hitting nobody if they were lucky. He'd also disconnect the feed-range selector, so that it would bounce back and forth and absolutely destroy the micarta idlers inside.

Very unpopular individual, whom got expelled. Among other things.

Shops just AIN'T no place for dorking around.

 

[High Binder]

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ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make sure you hit the E-stop BEFORE messing with the chuck.

 

[Dennis_in_VA]

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I think that he was trying to hold the chuck (stall the machine).

A display of his strength vs. the machines power.

He almost got a trip to the Emergency Room for multiple fractures.

Dumb ass kids.

 

[jeepguy242]

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with all the appendages you could actually loose when working around metalworking machienery even when being as safe as you possibly can, what in the world posessed him to do that stupid shit, he is lucky that he didnt loose his freakin foot..

both of them should be expelled if that was a class!!

if they were my mechanics, i would fire them both..

 

[WVgunsmith]

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You have to respect machinery. I've heard many horror stories. When I work on a lathe or mill. I take off my wedding band and lodge ring and or anything else that might come in contact with a machine.

 

[leadbullet]

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what a dumbass.

 

[RADcustom]

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[slg888]

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Lathes have took many lifes. That boy is very lucky he didn't lose his leg.

 

[KHOOKS]

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I've never even seen a lathe working and I could see that coming a mile away. Could be cause I've had a 1 1/2hp hammer drill wind me up before I could turn it loose. It got stuck while drilling set holes in a false peir to brace up bridge supports until columns got poured. Now take it I was a youngin out with dad on a summer day when he took me to work. I also remember leaving that same drill running when the crane operater move a timber over my head and thought it was falling on me.

 

[Airone]

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When I started with my company, I purchased a Brigdeport mill to build projects. This was new to the company because they did not have machinery, they mainly sold parts. I was setting up the fab side of the company. I was milling away one day when my boss (the owner of the company) snuck up behind me and yelled to scare me. I just quickly stopped the machine and ripped into him and that if he did it again I would be out of here. I was not going to be mangled over that type of behavior. I was surprised because he was quick tempered hot head at the time, he quickly apologized and said it wouldn't happen again. That was 16 years ago and I still work for him, he has not done it again..

 

[Fret Fodder]

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My personal lathe favorite was watching a guy try to clear the bird's nest that was forming around his improperly ground cutting tool... by hand... while it was running. He would reach in to grab it and try to break it off, and get cut. He would pull his hand back quickly and look at the blood starting to form on his fingers, then reach back into again. Then he tried to "hook" the nest and drag it out with his Vernier Calipers (which we called "very-near calipers" because people would use them as adjustable wrenches to tighten the bolts down on their tool holders, ruined them for precision measurements). Some people just shouldn't be around that type of equipment.

- Fret

 

[50calibercruiser]

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Stupid motherfucker. I hope his shop teacher beat the shit out of him.

I hope for his next trick he tries to remove one of those nice long coiled chips with his fingers

 

[armorpl8chikn]

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I have a similar story to KHOOKS. I was helping Daddy rough in the plumbing in a new house and had a 3-5/8 selfeed bit on a right angle Milwaukee. I was on a ladder poppin a hole through a joist when it bound up. I knew better but I put it in reverse and it got away from me and slapped me silly busting my lip and sending my braces flying. Daddy had to work on my braces with a pair of sidecutters before I could even close my mouth. I was 17 and had a lot to learn. Looks like those youngins playin with that lathe have much to learn as well. Hope they don't end up learning their last lesson.

 

[Casey Simpson]

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A senior Yale University science student has been killed after her hair got caught in a machine in a freak accident at a campus laboratory.
Michele Dufault, 22, died while using a fast-spinning lathe in the student machine shop at Sterling Chemistry Laboratory in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dufault, described as a 'brilliant student,' was an astronomy and physics major from Massachusetts and a member of the Yale Precision Marching Band.
She was working on a project in the basement of the laboratory where students and staff build or modify research instruments when the tragedy happened.
Her hair is thought to have been caught in the machine's rotating drive and dragged her onto it.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz1cPXslEUE

Well, maybe book smart but she ultimately failed the common sense part unfortunately.

 

[RollinCoal11]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Casey Simpson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
A senior Yale University science student has been killed after her hair got caught in a machine in a freak accident at a campus laboratory.
Michele Dufault, 22, died while using a fast-spinning lathe in the student machine shop at Sterling Chemistry Laboratory in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dufault, described as a 'brilliant student,' was an astronomy and physics major from Massachusetts and a member of the Yale Precision Marching Band.
She was working on a project in the basement of the laboratory where students and staff build or modify research instruments when the tragedy happened.
Her hair is thought to have been caught in the machine's rotating drive and dragged her onto it.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz1cPXslEUE

Well, maybe book smart but she ultimately failed the common sense part unfortunately. </div></div>

Thats awful....

 

[K_Labs]

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Wow that guy is an idiot.... and every1 else around him.

 

[callen3615]

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I was showed this in machine shop class. so funny.

 

[bronco_buster]

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I've seen photos of several lathe fatalities...the results are downright gruesome. This kid dodged a real bullet...youth and ignorance.

 

[a_bishop]

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i do tool and die work for a living and you guys would be amazed at the stuff some of my "more experienced" co workers do, i am young, 25 and i wonder every day how some of them are still living.

 

[AMTeam4]

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Wow, that kid got lucky.

 

[1lnbrdg]

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Drew my nut-sack up watching that!

 

[kbrady]

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That reminds me of an accident a few years ago where a guys shirt sleeve got caught in the lathe and he ended up being sucked into it...I think I have found pictures of it.

<span style="font-weight: bold">WARNING: PICTURES OF SHOP ACCIDENT, SLIGHTLY DISTURBING</span> Why you should always focus on shop safety

I didn't post that for the horror of it or for the shock factor......quite the opposite. I'm sure he was a decent guy, putting in his 8 hours when this happened. Terrible accident that could have been avoided by following basic shop rules. Fortunately that fuck-up in the video above dodged a huge bullet, he literally could have had his leg ripped off and been beaten to death with it.

Further proof that God watches over stupid people.

Kelly

 

[MAGUA]

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That picture was posted on here a few years ago. Hopefully it was a quick death for the guy, nasty.

 

[kbrady]

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Yeah, it seems like it was about 2-3 years ago when it circulated around my workplace. Horrible to imagine it!