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| GGKoul:
One thing that I do is... have someone else there to use my shop vac. So when I do the routing... the other person holds the shop vac very close to the router and sucks up the dust and any other crap flying out from the bit. Also this helps by reducing the dust. |
| patrickl:
I couldn't find my goggles one time so I though "well it's only a tiny bit of routing and I'll be fine". Of course I wasn't fine afterwards and I spend the hole night getting a "tree sized splinter" out of my eye. |
| Stingray:
I've been to the emergency room several times to have shards of metal removed from my eye. They use this great little tool that looks and sounds just like a dentist's drill. Yes they stick it in your eye. Do I wear goggles now? Uhm... sometimes. I guess I don't learn very quickly. :-[ -S |
| Zakk:
My buddy said that they used some kind of magnet to get the metal splinter out of his eye...it made sense to me at the time, but maybe it's not a magnet? |
| krick:
Since we're trading horror stories... My grandfather worked as a machinist for many years and got lots of small metal "splinters" in his eyes and never got them removed. This was back in the the days when men didn't wear protective gear. Then one day he goes to get an MRI and they tell him that its going to be a problem and they're worried about the metal in his eyes. I guess the magnetic field in the MRI heats up the metal particles or something. |
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