Jewelry and gloves.

[TellicoTurning]

I posted this on another forum I frequent when I'm not lurking here....

I was just watching a video on Google about turning... I notices the demonstrator was wearing a glove on his left hand and a watch, plus on his right arm he was wearing a chain link bracelet. I've also notices lots of times the the demonstrators are wearing their wedding rings or other rings on both the left and right hands...

I always take my wedding band off, mainly for safety reasons as I've seen fingers injured pretty seriously by the wearing of rings... secondly, my ring is a two piece design with a gold sculptured band over a white gold under band and I've already had to have it repaired when I somehow broke the weld between the two bands... plus I like my fingers and don't want anything to catch and remove them. I also wear a gold/silver turquoise ring on my right hand that I take off in the shop... it was a gift from LOML and I don't want to break the stone.

I never wear a watch... over the years past when I was working, I always wore one as my job was most often time sensitive, so I needed to watch the clock, so to speak... in the last couple of years of my career, the nerves in my wrist under the watch became irritated and I couldn't stand the feel of the watch, so switched to a pocket watch, which I rarely wear either now after retiring... time isn't a factor in day to day.

The video I was watching, the turner wore on his left hand a leather glove with the finger tips cut away... I picked up that habit a couple of years back as the chips flying off the turnings began to irritate the side of my hand... I used a leather glove with the fingers cut away too, until it wore out and most of the stitching began to come out.... I found one of my son's golf gloves and tried that... I like the tight fit of the golf glove and the snugness around the fingers, so I'll use that until it's worn out, then replace it with another....

question is: how many turn with their wedding rings, jewelry and or gloves on their hands?

I could have done this in a poll, but don't know how to set one up...

 

[Jgrden]

I do all the things you say not to do. Ring, watch and medic alert bracelet.

There is something to not wearing a watch. There are enough clocks to where one really need not carry their own time piece. Dale Carnegie speaks about being on time for appointments but I think he also said we have an internal clock that it pretty accurate.

The medic alert bracelet is the worst safety risk. It is loose, hard to get on and off an could easily snag. I guess a neck chain would be better.

Thanks for bringing this up, I need my fingers.

 

[gingerwood]

I wear my wedding ring, I'd have to cut it off to remove it. But I don't wear any bracelets, watches, gloves or long, loose sleeves.

 

[Smitty37]

Wedding band

I wear my wedding band all the time....I sometimes have my watch on but usually take it off as chips collect under it. Normally I wear a sleeveless T-shirt, a sweat shirt or short sleeved golf shirt - when I wear s long sleeved button shirt it is with the cuff buttoned or rolled well up. My lathe is not especially powerful and not likely to overpower me and do any damage if something does catch. It is much more likely to stall.

 

[Rick P]

I am lax about taking my wedding band off. However I have gotten hair and clothing caught in lathes and never wear long sleeves around a lathe. The rough spinning surface is like Velcro for any fabric with a slight fuzziness to it! And nothing NOTHING sucks like being jerked off your feet my your pony tail! Not a concern for me anymore but it is for my kid!

 

[leehljp]

. . . Dale Carnegie speaks about being on time for appointments but I think he also said we have an internal clock that it pretty accurate.

LOL! :biggrin: I think it is obvious he didn't experience some countries and cultures! :biggrin: In Japan, seconds count for the most part. But in some other countries . . . :turtle: :biggrin:

 

[PTsideshow]

A long these lines here is a quote form an article about a yale student killed by her hair getting tangled up with a lathe

But it was a rudimentary machine — a lathe in a campus laboratory — that erased what everyone imagined to be a brilliant future for Ms. Dufault, who also found time to mentor girls interested in science and to play saxophone in Yale's precision marching band.
On Tuesday, just weeks from graduating, she toiled late at night inside a machine shop in a chemistry lab, as she had for weeks while working on her senior thesis: investigating the possible use of liquid helium for detecting dark matter particles. Ms. Dufault, 22, was killed when her hair became caught in the lathe, whose rotating axis is used to hold materials like wood or metal being shaped.

Machine shop lathe accident article

Now here is the OSHA report

and here is part two

If you go to around page 6 that is were the information starts, granted her hair was caught in the lead screw of a metal working lathe but it could just as easily get caught in the chuck, spindle mandrel or anything else spinning.
Back in the sixties in high school they showed some very bad looking damage photo's of body parts and hair caught up in the moving parts of machinery. Being it was a tech high school our instructors all had industrial experience. With the missing fingers, and other more graphic photo's to show us. No watch as been said retired and now a days stupidphone is all the watch I need. And will take the wedding ring off when needed.
As with cotton and CA adhesives, why tempt fate and take the chance, be safe rather than sending the day in the ER!
:clown:

 

[hilltopper46]

I sometimes wear a mechanic's glove on my left hand when the chips coming off the gouge are hot. If it's cold in the shop I'll wear the mechanic's gloves on both hands. I always wear my wedding ring. I never wear a watch.

 

[ctubbs]

My bride ask me why I do not wear my wedding ring. I am an electrician and have to work high voltage from time to time. Rings can wear a thin spot in HV gloves, catch on edges of panels, make contact between a tool and ground, the list goes on and on. Other jewelry can get caught in spinning or moving equipment, gloves will catch on spinning tools or moving saw blades. If the flying chips did not sting so bad, it would probably be safer to work naked. OH NO! Just thinking about that would make me go blind! So when working, no jewelry, no gloves around moving tools, if long sleeves are required then tightly closed or taped, if gloves must be work because of sharp swarf then they must be well fitted. Just my rules. Works for me and I still have all my fingers at 67. Knock, Knock.
Charles