Bought some small chucks with 6mm hex shafts- ideal for drilling small holes with the piece held in the lathe chuck!
Marked the floor and screwed a batten to it, when the bonnet starts to lift I stop!
I use these on my emergency generator. They work well.
I don’t park the car in the garage these days, but when I did, I used to have a tennis ball on a piece of string, hanging from the rafters. When it touched the windscreen you stopped.
Spent a happy hour (HOUR)!! changing a toilet seat for a tenant - wish I'd had one of these!Not so much to do with wood turning but helpful if you get stuck.
Wing nut socket.
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The core of the socket has to be wide enough to accept the centre of the wingnut. I think this was 13mm. Cut the slots with a hacksaw or angle grinder.
Of course you could use a pair of pliers but sometimes there's not enough room or the nuts may be rusted solid, as toilet seat bolts sometimes are, The socket allows much more torque.
BTW, I didn't sacrifice one from my best socket set, I bought it specially.
Thank you Fred48. It all happened SO quickly, I was lucky to get away with only one finger injured. I haven't taken a cavalier attitude to safety, at least I thought I hadn't, but I went into the workshop to fetch something (not to work - that won't happen for quite a while) and I looked around critically. There are so many potential issues there, clutter on the side table of my table saw which I occasionally just push to one side, offcuts on the floor, items stored where I stand to use my chop saw so I have to lean over to use it. Accidents waiting to happen which I just didn't see, being so used to working in a messy environment. Well once my finger is better I have decided - no more making of anything until I can look at my workshop with pride and say it is as safe as I can possibly make it. As I said - wake up call. Possibly a New Year's resolution for some of the forum readers?
. I now have grey hair, but to be fair I've been grey for a lot more years than been a safety walla, but if I weren't I would be (I think )
Thanks K. I believe that other forum members will undoubtedly benefit from publishing this post. I'm happy that you have 're examined your workspace and identified things that you are going to change.
I know what you mean about mens sheds - I went with a view to joining a new one starting up some years ago - they wanted a safety person/someone to train others/supervise others when it was open/someone to be one of the trustees and it went on - they wanted all of the above tasks to be done by one person while they got established. Unsurprisingly after the guided tour of a room with some industrial equipment of unknown quality/capabilities/ever safety checked? that they had inherited in the workshop they were allowed to use I diplomatically said thank you but for the time being I will continue on my own. Never went back but Ive heard its going very well.Glad to hear that you are OK K. Very scary mate. I don't have a planer, only the ones you push or fly by radio control and have never seen the need for me.
But if you want scary then you should try being a safety officer in a Men's Shed
I saw the same sort of thing, though a bit flimsier in Aldi for 3 or 4 pounds
Wow. I thought the same! Thanks never thought of that happening. Slight aside (and something that I always did until it happened to a friend) never stop in the road with your wheel turned tight right waiting for a gap to turn into your drive; if a car backends you, you will be pushed into the opposite moving traffic! Never thought of that either! Be careful out there!
Being retired I remember the 'black museum' and photo albums of incidents (not accidents) from my apprenticeship, some were truly horrific, enough to cause PTSD in some, probably why they're not allowed any more. Having been a Trades Union H&S rep, and a Nebosh General Certificate holder (and former EMT) I've seen enough spilt claret and mess following incidents down the years to understand just how easily things go wrong. But trying to explain to modern apprentices, and managers, would almost always lead to the need to show them the reality, even then many would rather take risks and get things finished faster than do it safely. I had Don Merell's 'I chose to look the other way' pinned up by my desk as a reminder for all, including me, not to ignore things, if you see it and understand it's not safe you have a duty, moral and often legal, to prevent it continuing.
