Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:02:26 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!
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True for sure.
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From: fonman4277@comcast.net
To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans ; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!
Actually Scott, eye glasses dont offer adequate protection. In both my cases, I was wearing regular eye glasses and the metal particles came in from the side. I now wear full coverage safety goggles. Jeff
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----- Reply message -----
From: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 16:09
Subject: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
wow...........thanks for telling this story.
One would never think that could happen...just looking at a fresh weld.
one good thing about eyeballs needing glasses the older one gets..
it's automatic eye protection !
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "pat" <psdooley@VERIZON.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!
> Yeah, they used a needle on my eye to flick a piece out.
> The ER doctor said I might get a rust stain but it didn't happen.
> I was welding a stainless header. Got done and went to inspect my work,
> got
> real close to the welded area, oblivious to the popping noises of hot
> metal
> flaking off around the heated area.
> One little flake hit the brown part of my eye and fused there. No amount
> of
> flushing would get it out.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Mike
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 11:56 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!
>
> I once was blowing some metal shavings off of a workbench, and a piece
> went
> into my eye. The piece was gone by the time I got to the doctor, but it
> left a painful scratch on the cornea, as well as a rust ring where it had
> been. They used a dremel to buff out the rust ring! Scary.....
>
> Mike B.
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
>
> J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>
>>And when using a Dremel! Twice, almost a year to the day apart, grinding
> with my Dremel on my Vanagon put me at the eye doctors to get a small
> metal
> fragment removed from my eye. The second time I DID have safety glasses,
> but
> had pulled them down to get a better look at what I was working on-then
> didn't pull them back up-big mistake ( I should mention that I wear
> regular
> eyeglasses and I thought they offered enough protection-they don't!).
> Recently on the show "American Restorations" there was a shot of the shop
> owners 17 year old son grinding away on a piece of metal with NO safety
> glasses on. A few minutes later there is a shot of him, clipboard in hand,
> writing up an estimate for a customer and he IS wearing safety glasses!
> Guess there is more of a chance of that ball point pen flying out of his
> hand and hitting him in the eye than metal fragments from an angle
> grinder.
>>
>>
>>
>>Jeff Stewart
>>
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