Safety issues of wearing gloves when using power tools?

Don't look now but you dropped your puck ... the conversation and reply is NOT about using table saws.

Refer to the subject line if in doubt.

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Swingman
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"Swingman" wrote in news:nv2dnRFGIINjMrrbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Right. It's about wearing gloves and using power tools. Your reply was about how users should know the stuff rather than using the Internet as a repository of knowledge.

So, if I dropped the puck between the wrong two players, how did I do so?

  1. A table saw is a power tool.
  2. The example given applies directly to your reply about 'noin' stuff.
  3. The guy's obviously using it wrong, something the issue of wearing gloves while using power tools entails.
  4. Usenet posts, just like real life conversations sometimes drift or temporarily leave out all the elements first present in the converstion.

Puckdropper

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Puckdropper

LOL ... might want to follow that advice. ;)

Reply to
Swingman

There are times when I wear "gloves" to do some tasks. I find that wearing tight latex gloves can offer a better grip on some wood and tools. I think grip is important when feeding stock into a bench planer, TS, bench router, etc. Latex gloves still leave you a "feel" and are thin enough so that if there is a chance of some bit being caught up, it should rip through without pulling your hand in.

FoggyTown

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FoggyTown

While I agree that I wouldn't wear gloves for all the reasons mentioned. I was just reading a mag, might have been FW, and they show somebody wearing gloves using the TS. They even pointed out that they lessened the chance of kickback due to slippage.

As I said, I wouldn't do it.

-Jim

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jtpr

LOL. When I've gotten kickback, the only "slippage" was between my ears. Slippage. That's pure nonsense. Featherboards and push sticks, not gloves.

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Charlie Self

I'm damn sure not going to wear gloves after an incident on my CMS a few years back.

I had on a pair of those cheapie canvas/leather gloves. The blade caught the cuff of the glove and pulled it in slightly. I ended up not getting hurt, but I damn sure had to check my undies.

Briasn Elfert

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Brian Elfert

While not entirely the same, I always wear gloves with my angle grinder. The sparks would burn my hands all up without them.

The grinder spins so fast I don't believe gloves or no gloves will matter. A cutting or grinding wheel doesn't have teeth so less likely to grab a glove.

Brian Elfert

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Brian Elfert

Amen, Charlie.

Reply to
Dave Balderstone

A cylindrical solid steel shaft doesn't have teeth either, yet I can personally attest that it can grab a glove and cause injury.

Please note that I am not arguing against your choice of wearing gloves when operating the angle grinder, I suppose that might be reasonable though when using one myself, I do not wear them.

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Larry W

One lingerie check is usually all it takes. I got 3 fingers (that's all that would fit) pulled into a snag grinder many years ago. Fortunately it was already spinning down. Somebody spoke to me, I turned the grinder off, flipped open my face shield and grabbed for the grinder to change hands while standing up.

That's all it took.

I've gotten 'pink spray' a couple of times since ... but the grinder wanted the whole glove and-everything-in-it.

I'm not going to give a saw blade a chance.

Bill

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Bill in Detroit

Kickback happens because fences, blades, and splitters are poorly aligned, along with a board that's able to rotate and catch a rising tooth. "Slippage" has nothing to do with it.

With everything properly aligned, including a splitter, you can actually stop and let go of the work. Nothing will happen if the splitter and/or featherboards keep the work off the rising teeth.

A setup poorly enough aligned will overcome Kung-Fu grip on a saw with enough power.

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B A R R Y

I agree. Plus, working with an alert and clear mind will help question procedures that can be done in a safer manner.

Reply to
SWDeveloper

For what it's worth: I like to think of myself as a reasonably intelligent person, but one who is deeply inexperienced with power tools. I took wood shop in 1975 and have forgotten most of it, except the part about jointers taking off fingers. (Oh, and that lathes are cool.)

This discussion has been very enlightening to me. Most of it involves tools I don't have yet, or tools that I don't use gloves with anyway, but it has answered some points that I've wondered about in passing. But none of the substance of the discussion was already between my ears when I started working on stuff a year or so ago.

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Drew Lawson

"Swingman" wrote in news:87udndKNuKsBnrTbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Maybe it's an age thing...

I'm in my mid-50's. Growing up, I did a bunch of building and construction activities with my dad, some for money, many for charitable activities.

My wife and I raised 4 sons. We did as much as possible with the boys, but not nearly as much as I did with my dad. My sons were deep into sports and other great activities, but the 80's and the 60's were very different decades.

I watch my eldest son in my shop today, and cringe. He's 33, and a really bright fellow, but he's had no shop classes, built very few buildings (or septic tank leach fields), and laid little to no concrete, all staples of my youth.

But they are really good with equipment and systems that didn't really exist in my youth.

And they love the same music I do. ;)

Patriarch

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Patriarch

I stand corrected.

Just as with IQ in the general population, it's a good bet that half the woodworker's instinctively know that wearing gloves around woodworking machinery is not a good idea and are in no need of further "documentation".

Making you absolutely correct for the remainder ...

Reply to
Swingman

like cloths....the music comes back in style. R&R will never die. But I dont see (or hope) bell bottom pants come back. Love to see braless halter tops in vogue again.

Reply to
trs80

Were you not paying attention during the early years of this decade? Bell-bottoms already came back, then went back out.

Oddly enough, I thought they were much more flattering this time around, probably since they were being worn by lovely young women and not, you know, Mom.

- Ken

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Ken McIsaac

I think you are a troll

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ROY!

Maybe. I'm about to roll to 48, and in shop at school I learned about the risks of loose clothing, jewellery, watches, neckties, gloves, etc in relation to power tools.

Teaching of shop declined seriously in the intervening years, to the point that kids are graduating high school without knowing how to do things I (and you) take for granted.

Most of them can't even make a watering can from a tomato juice can and some sheet metal using snips, a brake, and a REAL soldering iron (the kind that needs a torch).

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Dave Balderstone

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