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Gary Stadler (Boogiethecat)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 1:47 am: | |
Ever been workin on da bus sawing or cutting away and have a nice steel chip take dead aim at your eyeball, and manage to get there quite effectively even though you've got safety glasses on? Occasionally it happens. Happened to me today. It also happens a lot when grinding or abrasive cutting.
Quick fix which works for me every time... get a BIG supermagnet... like one at least the size of two sugar cubes, NEODYMIUM (not any other type, not strong enough) and carefully touch it to your eyeball where the steel chunk is. Amazingly, you'll most often find that the nasty little hunk would rather be on the magnet than in your eye!
In four years of working on the bus it's saved me at least three trips to the eye doctor. Heavens knows how some of that stuff gets by the glasses, but it does. It's neat to know a simple trick like this.
Tonght it nabbed a stainless steel chip that came from nowhere when I was grinding a weld... A Neo magnet is strong enough that it will even attract many alloys of stainless! G@@D stuff !! |
Jim (Jim_in_california)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 2:36 am: | |
That's a neat tip. Thanks. Metal particles are among the most dangerous and common types in the eye. Glass is rare but needs a doctor EVERY time. Wood your eye can usually eject on it's own (there's a system there for doing so with most natural materials). Plastic will depend on the type; be very careful, try a "water flush" method and gravity. |
Matt
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 7:09 am: | |
where would one buy a neo magnet, I have never heard of one. |
Don/TX
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 7:47 am: | |
EBay is the place I and my friends got theirs. Lots of them there. |
Marc Bourget
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 8:27 am: | |
Gary,
Maybe better safety goggles/glasses?
Ounce of prevention . . ., etc.
I've done a bunch of the welding and grinding. Of course, I'm probably whimpish compared to you and don't grind hard enough with a big enough grinder to risk serious eye exposure.
At the same time, it's better to avoid the eye injury in the first place.
Expanding your comment on safety glasses, I finally realized ("the hard way")that "full coverage" goggles with light foam on the vents are worthwhile. But this is low humidity, Central Valley, California and fogging isn't much of an issue most of the year.
The magnets are a good approach when all resonable precautions are taken, something I'm sure you've done. Just wanted to emphasize the point for the hidden majority.
Onward and Upward
Marc |
Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 8:51 am: | |
www.allelectronics.com. This is an electronics surplus store. Jack |
John MC9
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 9:18 am: | |
I always found that a good *smack* to the back of the head
dislodged particles fairly easily. Some rare occasions called
for heavier than a 3lb hammer, but most often an open hand or
shoe would suffice.
Works for me. |
niles steckbauer (Niles500)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 4:03 pm: | |
..... that explains a whole lot ...... John ...... |
Gary Morton (Gmorton)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 5:30 pm: | |
Eye gear is always a better first choice.
I've also had great success with a small piece of chewing gum that I have chewed until the sweetness was gone. The gum becomes very sticky. I then flatten it and touch it to the object. It comes right out. |
Henry R. Bergman, Jr. (Henryofcj)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 7:42 pm: | |
I still have a little bit of stainless steel floating around inside my left eye. Be very careful using a Drimmal tool as the bit really turns fast.
Anyway, a couple of $grand$ and a lot of pain later, things now seem to be fairly clear. The ER MD did not use the magnent techinque because the floater is SS and he was...
...afraid the powerful magnetic field would gravely affect all the steel gears inside my head that are there instead of brains. Thanks for the magnent tip. Good idea. |
FAST FRED
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 5:27 am: | |
."..afraid the powerful magnetic field would gravely affect all the steel gears inside my head that are there instead of brains."
That's why your supposed to wear an alluminum Pyramid at all times on your head.
Don't you listen to Art Bell at night?
FAST FRED |
Stephen Fessenden (Sffess)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 6:38 pm: | |
Ophthamologists use a super electormagnet to pull steel splinters out of the eye. But it doesn't work with copper, aluminum, most stainless etc. I like a full face shield for that kind of work. |