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Darren:
How do you guys keep metal splinters out of your fingers?

Or is it just an occupational hazard !!!   :borg:

bogstandard:
Darren,

Over the years you tend to get crocodile like skin on your hands and that cuts the risk of high penetration. That is one of the ways you get out of doing the washing up, just tell SWMBO that it is a workshop health risk by having too soft skin.

Always avoid handling swarf, a brass needle under your skin will turn into a puss filled rotting mass in a couple of days, so any skin penetration must be removed as soon as possible. I always wear silicon fingered, fabric backed lightweight ones for moving metal swarf about, in fact for all jobs in the shop where it is advisable and safe to use. The modern day ones are much more preferable and just as penetration resistant as the old hard leather ones. Make yourself a metal scraper and hook for moving swarf about when machining, NEVER touch swarf while the machine is in operation, even with a hook or scraper, even a thin curl can easily slice a finger off or tangle up and pull your extremities into the machine.

More accidents and wounds are caused in the workshop with swarf than anything else.

My father worked most of his life making railway engine wheels and doing large steam hammer forging. Even ten years after he retired, bits of metal embedded under his skin in all sorts of positions around his body, would cause him problems when eventually they started to come to the surface. Put it this way, he didn't need to take iron supplement tablets.

Don't let it get in there in the first place.

John

Brass_Machine:
Darren,

John has really good points. I will just add one onto it. I keep a small cheapo paint brush near my mill and lathe to dust of pieces or the machine as needed (never when the machine is working tho).

Eric

sbwhart:
 :offtopic: It was Johns dad that kept me awake at night when I was a baby  :( I was born in Forge St and that steam hammer use to shake the house, when it started off people made a grab for their clocks before they fell off the shelve.

Back On topic:- Ho to hell with it I can't think af anything sensible to add  :scratch: Except that splitters can cause big trouble my wife once got a piece of swarf stuck in her foot that I'd carried into the house on my shoes, that caused me no end of griefe  :wack:

Have fun

Stew

bogstandard:
This bit is way  :offtopic:

During WW2, my father was seriously wounded when a piece of shrapnel hit him in his left temple.

It was for that reason he went to work in the forge after his demob, the heavy noise sounds didn't bother him for some reason. There were hundreds of people that must have worked around that shop that were sent permanently deaf, because then there was no health and safety as such.

Nowadays, you only have to have someone fart too loud and everyone has to wear ear protection.

And yes Stewart, I had trouble sleeping when I stayed with my grandmother at the back of Crewe Railway Works in the now gone Lincoln Street.

John

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