machine shop horror stories

[nikeairmancurry]

Originally Posted by nitneylion452

Today, I was preparing to cut a piece of plastic for a spacer (tough plastic, can't remember the name)and I was going to use a hacksaw to do it. One of our mentors cam up to me and asked why I was using a hacksaw and I said that it was the easiest and safest way to cut the plastic. He then told me to go and use a compound miter saw, for which we only have a wood blade. I informed him of this and he still said I should use the miter saw. I went and tried. The plastic snapped and whizzed across the room, narrowly missing one of my teammates. Thankfully, nobody was hurt and we were all wearing goggles. Just goes to show you: sometimes, mentors don't always know best.

Exact thing happened to me on Friday night except it hit me in the stomach... No damage done besides a huge bruise and a bit of blood..

[musicgurl1329]

My team has been pretty good about this (knock on wood) but last week I sent part of a lathe (I forgot the actual piece name) flying at my mentor while welding the tip of the blade to the metal I was cutting into. I also broke a tip off, sent a wheel flying off the lathe and cracked a wheel from tightening it all with in 3 hours of each other. No one was hurt in anyway (unless you count my ego.)

:/

[iv1777]

This did NOT happen in robotics (thank goodness.... a million times)
nor to someone I know...
and I'm not a hundred percent sure of how it happened, but
Someone in a woods class in my school was cutting on a table saw...
Either he reached for a piece of wood near the blade, or tried to cut a piece of wood two short....
Lost a finger, and a half a finger, and a half a thumb, presumably in the fashion of the picture, one straight cut...
Moral of the story : Don't cut small pieces, use a pushstick, and turn off saw to get scrap out.. Please...

[DDSLoan96]

Last week one of my teammates was drilling into a sheet of aluminum and he didn't clamp it with anything so the whole thing spun around and caught him just below the waist and the whole team just started laughing