Subject: Watch Your Feet

From: [email-masked] (Mark McDade)
Date: 6 Dec 1996 06:08:46 GMT

Yet another little safety warning/story - this one with a
relatively happy ending.

A friend brought over a 3 hp. motor with a 1.25" shaft
and a 5" pulley made for a 1" shaft.  We put the pulley in
the 4-jaw and bored it out pretty as you please.  I was just
finished with the last .0005" and unscrewed the chuck and
took the whole thing, chuck and pulley, over to the workbench
to try it on the motor.  The good news was that it fit
beautifully - the bad news is that when I started to pull
it off the motor, the motor, chuck and pulley all came
off the bench onto my left little toe - ouch!  Fortunately,
nothing's broken - either mechanical or human.  We did
the rest of the work - recutting the keyway - with the motor
on the floor!  I'll be walking on the heel of my left foot
for a few days.

--
Mark McDade - [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Jens)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 10:34:53 -0800

[email-masked] (Mark McDade) wrote:

> Fortunately,
>nothing's broken - either mechanical or human.

How about your pride ?????

Jens

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 6 Dec 1996 14:59:11 GMT

>Yet another little safety warning/story - this one with a
  <tale of flying motors deleted>
>Mark McDade - [email-masked]

I mention the rigger's fundamental rule:  Never place any
part of a human body under a load that is being lifted.
I watch the pro riggers here at work, and they always
follow it.  When I see the scientists here lifting something,
the *invariably* violate that rule.  I think there's an 
irresistable need for them to see "what's underneath,"
or "what's holding this thing up?"

Hope your toe heals fast.  I dropped a puny bicycle
wheel off at truing stand when I was a kid, onto my
toe.  Eventually wound up at the podiatrist after
about 2 months.  That hurts!

Jim