Incident with Jet Drum Sander-Gore Warning!

[rod1949]

I had a bit of an incident with a jet drum sander (last week) and it won. But I got to eat hospital food for a week and will get 5-6 weeks off work.

No 1 is after the first operation (Monday night) to clean up the mess.
No 2 is after the second operation (Wednesday arvo) with them sown to my chest for a graft to take. and
No 3 is the culprit, the two lines on the drum is the skin off my fingers.

[masoth]

A good trick, Rod. I'll bet you show caution next time you use the tool, and it's a timely reminder to the rest of us.

soth

[Waldo]

Holly hell!

[mic-d]

OMG that looks painful! I tried to stop myself looking at this post, now I wish I hadn't, it's not for the psychologically scarred!! and one more machine to scare the pants off me.. Good luck with the rehab.

Cheers
Michael

[martrix]

what did you do?

[jdadley57]

How exactly did you manage it? Oh, and I hope your recovery is quick.
Don

[derekh]

Michael,

Seeing the results of your altercation with a bandsaw made me cringe the other day !

I hope everyone recovers quickly.

cheers
Derek

[rod1949]

How did I do it?

Its a recently new machine for me. I was practicing some sanding.

The machine has two motors and a seperate switch for each. One motor drives the drum and one drives the in-feed table (its now evident to me there are some safety issues with this set-up). I had turned off the in-feed table and this may have put in my mind that everything was off. I then for some unknown reason put my right hand under the drum head, then the next thing I knew my fingers were jamb up in the machine. I quickly reailsed the drum was still going and reached over to turn it off. Then I tried to pull my fingers out and they wouldn't budge without pain. I thought about calling out to the Missus (but she wouldn't of heard me) to get the fire brigade but they probably would have wanted to destroy the machine, and I wasn't going to have that. So I un-did the allen key headed screw that holds the cover shut, thank christ I only had this finger tight. I flipped the cover open to see my fingures caught between the drum and a 15mm dia roller bar that sits about 6mm off the sanding drum. After a couple of goes at getting them back out I decided that I just have to gritt my teeth and go for it... to hell with the pain... and got them out.

Before I started sanding I changed the sandpaper from 80 grit to 40 grit.

The sanding drum spins anti clockwise so it just grabbed my fingers and pulled them in an up in a flash.

As I'm walking inside I'm wriggling the fingers and everthing seems okay. Gets inside says to the missus I need bandage. She comes with a bandade, she sees it and says you need the doctor. So around to the local we go. I says to the doc just needs to be pulled together and stitched. The doc says no no it needs more than that you're off to the Royal Perth.

My stay and treatment at the Royal Perth was absoultly fantastic.

This one fingure typing sure buggers a person out.

[jdadley57]

Sounds awful! The reason I wanted to know is that I have one myself and want to know what to avoid doing.
I had a similar close call with a dust extractor. I turned off the table saw and then turned off the extractor. I thought that some longish thin offcuts had beed pulled into the impeller so I uncapped the spare inlet and was putting my hand in to check while, at the same time, pulling my hearing protection off with the other hand. At that point I realised I could hear that the impeller was still spinning, and spinning fast. Enough to warrent a cuppa and a good lie down.
It just takes a moments inattention or distraction.

Don

[RedShirtGuy]

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow OW!!!!

At least you got to play Napolean for a while. That's an interesting grafting technique I wasn't aware of.

That's one good thing about fingers...you've still got 6 spare

Here's to a speedy recovery.

[Ozkaban]

OWWWW!!!!

I must admit that the most attractive picture is the JET sander, finger marks and all

Hope you heal properly soon. That looks very nasty. It's amazing how fast these things can happen, isn't it.

Cheers,
Dave

[KevM]

Holy moley!!!!

I have a Jet 22-44 and never really considered it a machine to be wary of, that first photo of yours is indelibly imprinted in my head.

I haven't bought any 40 grit paper yet, maybe I won't now.

[Black Cat]

Ouch ouch ouch. This is why I always have my mobile phone in my pants pocket when using power tools. Mind you, knowing my luck I would cut the phone in half in the process of doing myself an injury ...

[Ozkaban]

Ouch ouch ouch. This is why I always have my mobile phone in my pants pocket when using power tools. Mind you, knowing my luck I would cut the phone in half in the process of doing myself an injury ...

or do yourself an injury answering it

[BobL]

That sure was a botty winking sight

Hope it heals up soon!