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dan_2k_uk
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by dan_2k_uk » Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:59 pm
having spent most of sunday night / monday morning in A&E having a microscopic piece of metal from the grinder that managed to fly round my safety specs removed from my left eye.
Then returning monday daytime after 4 hours sleep to have the ring of rust it had left behind scraped off my retina with a needle I would highly reccomend wearing goggles instead of glasses when doing sustained ammounts of grinding.
Not very fun at all!
Dan
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turbo-tom
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by turbo-tom » Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:15 am
Tom
Ford Fiesta ST
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dan_2k_uk
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by dan_2k_uk » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:53 am
its pretty much sorted now.
just gotta put some cream in it for 7 days to stop the scratch on my cornea from getting infected
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Newtomud
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by Newtomud » Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:44 am
Those people at A+E are amazing.. Get well soon...
(Funny thing is I was sorting out some stuff yesterday and came across my old googles and thought to myself.. Must wear these)
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ScottieJ
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by ScottieJ » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:57 am
yup you want these! they keep all the sparks out!
I've lost mine so have been wearing these for the last few weeks and although they look cooler
I've had a few close calls!
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Edweird
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by Edweird » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:11 pm
......I had better start wearing something when I'm grinding then. I use that thing a LOT and most times I'm not even wearing my normal glasses.
There's three ways of doing things:
The right way,
The wrong way
And my way, which is like the wrong way but faster.
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ScottieJ
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by ScottieJ » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:13 pm
Edweird wrote:......I had better start wearing something when I'm grinding then. I use that thing a LOT and most times I'm not even wearing my normal glasses.
always wear your safety specs!
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dan_2k_uk
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by dan_2k_uk » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:22 pm
yeah big up the staff at GWH in Swindon for a doing a cracking job.
they even squeezed me in to have the rust ring removed on the BH Monday even tho the eye clinic was shut! Saved me a day off work
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turbo-tom
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by turbo-tom » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:45 pm
i found with the "cooler" looking ones
, are a bit pants if your working undernearth because all the shit still lands undernearth them
but anyways as they so (kinda agreee/not
) is safety first
Tom
Ford Fiesta ST
, hope your on the mend soon 
, i know a few years ago my dad's retina actually came away from his eye and he lost all his site , and had to have it laser joined again some scary stuff though 
