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There are a lot of highly educated stupid people out there
David,
Where are you? I'm the Machinist for the Purdue Chemistry Dept.
When I was in college, our student machine shop had a set of South Bend Heavy 10 lathes, which have a flat belt drive. They are excellent machines for a student shop, because they are forgiving and relatively low power (about 1/2 HP ? ). Those were the machines that we students used. The bigger lathes were for the professionals. The most powerful machines we could use were Series 1 Bridgeport mills.
The bigger horsepower lathes can be pretty scary, and I am surprised that a student would have access to such a machine. (I assume that the machine involved was an old, manual, gear driven, multi-HP lathe.) Some of the photos of lathe accidents, which have been posted on this forum, show the gruesome results.
I'm against this line of thinking....
A s/b with a flat belt drive running a little 6" chuck a 1500 rpm
would have the same outcome with hair involved.
Treat the spindle as having "Unlimited force" just as you SHOULD
treat any gun as loaded.
I still don't understand why these places do not have to fall
under the same rules from O.S.H.A. as any shop.
Just like county municiple workers don't need to use trenchboxes.
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