Because of all the deep splits.  Maybe if the splits were filled  with something to solve for the structural issues presented but I think I'd have abstained without  something.  Maybe if I used the huge wire guard that came with my lathe I might - maybe - - -   But this guy just went with it and  - - well  - -  see video #2

 

 

 

 

Can't blame him for trying though.

 

I wonder if that white board behind the lathe is to conceal the hole/dent??

I wonder how he walks?  I wouldn't try it.

I tried it, then stopped, out of my own inexperience!

The speed with which it went all to pieces is a perfect corollary  for my  insistence against wearing any kind of gloves  - Fagin or otherwise -  around machinery. 

It all happens so fast.

Rings and long sleeves. I thought that was a BIG NO NO! 

I got caught in an engine lathe back in the 1970s.  I had a pony tail.  It was almost to my waist.

(  stop laughing )

 

I was doing a gubbermit job turning  a cutting tool from O1.  I wanted a large diameter Buttress Thread wood tap and die and I was bloody well going to make a set. 

The machine was in back gears going very - very  v-e-r-y slowly

I'd set the pass up and was chewing away at the stock.

All was going well.

 It was lunch hour.

I can't recall what I did that got me caught. I may have just bent over. I don't remember.

I  felt the tug.

I reached out and flipped the switch  just as the thing wound me down and away to the right.

The lathe ground to a halt with me in the lead screw nice and tight.

I  was sitting there on the floor trying to figure out how to disengage the lead screw given my limited reach when a fellow machinist happened by and set me free.

That very next day I had short hair.

I got caught in an engine lathe back in the 1970s.  I had a pony tail.  It was almost to my waist.

(  stop laughing )

 

I was doing a gubbermit job turning  a cutting tool from O1.  I wanted a large diameter Buttress Thread wood tap and die and I was bloody well going to make a set. 

The machine was in back gears going very - very  v-e-r-y slowly

I'd set the pass up and was chewing away at the stock.

All was going well.

 It was lunch hour.

I can't recall what I did that got me caught. I may have just bent over. I don't remember.

I  felt the tug.

I reached out and flipped the switch  just as the thing wound me down and away to the right.

The lathe ground to a halt with me in the lead screw nice and tight.

I  was sitting there on the floor trying to figure out how to disengage the lead screw given my limited reach when a fellow machinist happened by and set me free.

That very next day I had short hair.

Okay I never imagined you with a pony tail!

I'd try to turn just about anything, but that's just because of my own lack of experience in turning. Last bowl I tried to turn was going great ... until it flew into pieces around the workshop. Pretty cool video.

I'd try to turn just about anything, but that's just because of my own lack of experience in turning. Last bowl I tried to turn was going great ... until it flew into pieces around the workshop. Pretty cool video.

Amen to that Chris! Ignorance is bliss aint it!