safety comment...
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From: Bend, OR
safety comment...
Many of you know I am a bit of a gauge freak, and I have installed 20-30 kits over the years for people...
In all these years, welding, grinding, cutting, drilling and tapping I have maybe thrown a pair of safety glasses on 3 times... (welding hood of course but...)
Yesterday I installed a set of gauges for Clay (hell of a nice guy, we spend 2-3 hours talking at lunch) and a bit after he left I started rubbing my eye, fast foward to now...
I first went to a Imediate care clinic, hour there to be sent to the ER... Three hours there and a cat scan, to be told to go home and call this number in the morning (eye DR)...
They gave me some perk for the pain, but I can tell you, there is nothing more irritating then something in your eye.
WEAR SAFETY GLASSES!!!
In all these years, welding, grinding, cutting, drilling and tapping I have maybe thrown a pair of safety glasses on 3 times... (welding hood of course but...)
Yesterday I installed a set of gauges for Clay (hell of a nice guy, we spend 2-3 hours talking at lunch) and a bit after he left I started rubbing my eye, fast foward to now...
I first went to a Imediate care clinic, hour there to be sent to the ER... Three hours there and a cat scan, to be told to go home and call this number in the morning (eye DR)...
They gave me some perk for the pain, but I can tell you, there is nothing more irritating then something in your eye.
WEAR SAFETY GLASSES!!!
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Ya, I was retarded... Clay even asked me "you want a pair of glasses"
and I said, "no, I never have anything fall into my eyes"
I just wish they would have pulled it out! Just irritating! the drugs are nice thou...
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thats what did you in right there
You make a good point though, I'm a welder fabricator by trade, and do alot of farming, I've been there done that shouldve had safety glasses on kinda thing. You're right about it being really annoying, i wear contacts which makes it even worse. I've gotten in the habit of grabbing a pair of glasses when I crawl under the truck or anthing, I always hate reaching up to turn a wrench or something and having dirt and crud fall down on you.
Hope your eye gets better soon man!
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I've said the same thing "I don't need them"....not 5 mins later.....something is in my eye. Luckily was able to get it out myself.
Once got a piece of metal in my eye at work around noon, tried flushing it out and after a while the pain went away. Came home after work and baled hay...my eyes started getting irritated(alergic to hay) and started to rub them while baling and realized that it was still in there. Tried flushing later and no luck, went back out and hauled the rest of the loads of hay to the barn. Then at around 9 pm as a last resort took a big magnet and put it over my eye and poof the pain was gone. Never thought it would have worked but it did.
So hope all goes well.
Once got a piece of metal in my eye at work around noon, tried flushing it out and after a while the pain went away. Came home after work and baled hay...my eyes started getting irritated(alergic to hay) and started to rub them while baling and realized that it was still in there. Tried flushing later and no luck, went back out and hauled the rest of the loads of hay to the barn. Then at around 9 pm as a last resort took a big magnet and put it over my eye and poof the pain was gone. Never thought it would have worked but it did.
So hope all goes well.
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I also got a piece of metal in my eye while grinding, it was a spark so it melted into my eye, it did not bother me until it started to rust the next day. I had to go get it ground out, the doc used something that looked like a Dremel w/ a buffing wheel, it did not hurt because he numbed me, but just knowing what was happening was scary!
BTW, anyone ever get carb cleaner in their eye? I have only once wished I was dead, and it was the moment that carb cleaner hit my eye!!
BTW, anyone ever get carb cleaner in their eye? I have only once wished I was dead, and it was the moment that carb cleaner hit my eye!!
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Good advise Joe. I had to have my eye scraped once. Never again will I do anything without saftey glassed on.
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Good reminder post to wear you safety glasses.
I have glasses on my tool box, In the basement on the grinder/drill presses. I must have 5 pair laying around. Use them all the time. And pass them out to my friends when they come over. I hate stuff in my eyes. It seems if it goes flying, it goes in my eyes. Never been to the doc for it. But will also say, IT HURTS. Many times i had my wife dig stuff out.
Especially weed waking.. High speed projectiles.
Hope everything heals up for you.
I have glasses on my tool box, In the basement on the grinder/drill presses. I must have 5 pair laying around. Use them all the time. And pass them out to my friends when they come over. I hate stuff in my eyes. It seems if it goes flying, it goes in my eyes. Never been to the doc for it. But will also say, IT HURTS. Many times i had my wife dig stuff out.
Especially weed waking.. High speed projectiles.
Hope everything heals up for you.
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Great tip Joe. I always wear my safety glaases now. I had to go to the ER once with a drill shaving in my eye. The doctor was having a hell of a time getting it out (it was miniscule but still irritating as hell) and then he had a great idea, a magnet. Won't work on copper or aluminum but it got that steel shaving out like right now.
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Sucks about your eye. I had a revelation a couple of weeks ago when I was drilling holes under the truck and a hot shaving fell on my arm burned the F out of it. Not a big burn spot, but it hurt like hell. I got to thinking what if that had gotten into my eye. Well I went and found some safety glasses that were stuffed in a drawer here in the house and put them in my toolbox.
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about 10 years ago, some buddies and I rented this huge old house. I was hanging the dartboard in the "game room". This house had plaster walls, so I was drilling a small pilot hole for the wall anchor. Well, I wasn't wearing safety glasses either, and the small drill bit snapped. About an 1/4" piece went straight into my eye. stuck straight into the white part near the tear duct. I had been drinking a few cold beers, and I guess didn't have the clearest judgement with respect to no safety glasses or what came next. I went to the bathroom and basically pulled the piece of drill bit out. my eye watered up real good, and got a little red, but that was it. the bit came out cleanly, and there wasn't any pain. I decided if it bothered me in the morning I'd go to the doctor. All's well that ends well. Still have 20/15 vision, so I consider myself lucky. I am still bad at not wearing them all the time, but I have gotten better at trying to wear glasses.