About being careful

It’s good to remember that Sherline tools are not toys, and that accidents can happen, no matter how well experienced, careful or skilled you are (and I’m none of these) . This happen to me when I was building my table saw. Of course was my fault.

This happened when, after shutting down the motor, I was going to clean the working part and the spindle was still rotating (I get used to do this). The tool, a 3/8″ very sharp carbide mill, caused several cuts in the nail and underneath skin. I must use pointed tweezers to extract plastic particles under the skin, ouch!.

I was lucky; this was a minor injury. Now my nail looks almost the same as before though there are some minor sensitivity issues. After that I adopt some simple rules when working with this tools:

• Don’t talk with other people (or ignore them, saying “yes…”, “really?”, etc).
• Don’t think about that beautiful girl (or something else).
• Don’t put my hands in a radius of 10 cm around the rotating tool.
• Clean parts only with a brush.

Of course there are standard guidelines when you work with power tools, but by following these basic rules are a start point.