End Mills Play For Keeps!

[rake60]

Anyone who says they've never had a close call with an end mill is either
lying to you or not paying attention to what they have been doing.
By it's very design an end mill is a hazardous tool. When cutting on the
end or side it can suck down out of it's holder or draw the part up out of
its clamping. Either situation can be potentially dangerous. Get a finger
too close, and the tool doesn't know the difference between metal and
flesh. I saw a big man go down once when he was cleaning up after an
accident at the shop where an operator was wearing a glove and got too
close to an end mill. He picked up a glove and a rather large chunk of
a hand fell out. The tools we use at home are much smaller, but they will
bite the hand that feeds them just as quickly.

Rick

 

[tattoomike68]

A spinning part on a drill press can beat a guy up bad too.

I was drilling 5/16" holes in the edges of small 12" manhole cover drain grates. it was friday and I was in a rush to finnish them up so they could be dip painted and on the truck that night.

I went to lift the drill and the 11 LB cover spun around at 750 RPM till the 5/16" drill snapped off and it hit me on both of my thighs. It hit me hard, I used two canes to walk for the next 2 days. Had it hit one leg and not both it might have broke it. The drill press was a big 5 hp radial arm.

Yep, a drill press can realy beat you up.

 

[1Kenny]

 

[LeChatNoir]

Oh jeez... I heard so many horror stories working in a Tool shop. Made up or not, they made my cautious nature even more on alert.

The worst thing I ever saw in the shop I was in was a fellow get the very tip of his finger smashed in an small injection mold. Still popped it like a grape.