How Not To

Step 25 Wire Brush on Angle Grinder Catches Shirt

I was using a "cup brush" on an angle grinder to remove "liquid nails" and wood from a piece of square metal tubing. I leaned in too close, and it got jerked up into my belly with my shirt wrapped around it, the motor buzzing, and the wheel still trying to turn. I managed to find the off switch in the tangle of shirt, and figured out that I'd gotten lucky, I hadn't been disemboweled.

Comments

[vincent7520]

As you obviously are a dangerous daredevil with the most inocuous thing at hand It may have happened to you, but not on the picture : the angle grinder wouldn't hang on your shirt. Instead it would have shred the fabric !…
I cannot believe that it was stopped by the fabric and / or that you were fast enough to stop the grinder in the middle of the first rev on you shirt !!!…
Read what seemed to have really happened to CementTruck and mearhoof.
So my message is stop with this nonsense : this shouldn't be seen as instructable (even a "don't…") this is only an anthology of childish mistakes.
Great professionals and enlightened DIY post here.
Your post seem to only please yourself, so please give us a break.

[CementTruck]

That just happened to me a couple of weeks ago with a belt sander. It took me a long time to get the shirts out of the sander. I had to actually take portions of the sander apart with a screwdriver while it was hanging in front of me.

I'll let you in on a little secret, a belt sander is also an AWESOME epilator and skin abrader.

A great testament to your sense of humor: taking pictures of your folly, posting it for the world to see and possibly subject yourself to peer ridicule. Wish I had thought of it myself at the time, but it was getting hard to breathe and I was getting claustrophobic. ;)

[rnearhoof]

I did that once with a drill that kicked back. The bit twisted my skin in along with the shirt and hurt like hell. Lots of bruising and peeling skin.

[alterecho7]

just make shur id wont

[Rishnai]

You and your murderous grinders.... I'm glad my grinder hasn't ried to kill me yet.