Posted by Ken Leung at 2/3/2001 5:30 AM EST
Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.
In Reply to: POST YOU WAR WOUNDS HERE
Posted by Anton Abaya on 2/3/2001 1:02 AM EST:
Although I don't remember much injuries, I remember a lot about accidents happened while I was in the shop...
One of the biggest one: I was using a small vice gripping onto a piece of metal, and was trying to drill a large hole in the metal piece. What happened was I didn't clamp the vice, and the drill bit end up catching into the metal, the whole vice start spinning on the drill bit, and after 10 revolution or so the vice when air-born, and landed like 15 feet away. It could've kill someone.
Well, another real dangerous thing I did was trying to make 8" dia. AL (1/4"

circles out of 9" x 9" AL (1/4"

... and I put the squares on the lathe and tried to lathe the squares down using rough files... really dangerous.