The thread may be a little gunshy right now. Just like me.
I am 6' 5" tall. This may not have even hit some of you guys.
I looked around the shop and found maybe 10 little shards that were shaped much like a caveman cutting tool. One of those could easily have sliced right on in somewhere. Kind glad I got hit by a big piece.
This machine has many accessories. It does have a cast iron blade cover. It was not installed. I would not have been able to use a covered wheel. At least not a full cover like it has. The grinder itself has a half cover. I could have used that type. As mentioned, never had a problem for 6 or 7 years. The last stone that was installed before this one came in the same shipment and didn't have any issues. I looked over this stone carefully as well before installing. The only thing to do is to stand aside on startup. A bit further aside than what I did of course.
I also suspect had I had the cover in place, I may have seen more of an explosion of smaller shrapnel rather than mainly 4 big chunks and a few smaller ones. Just speculation and I don't think I ever want to find out.
I am 6' 5" tall. This may not have even hit some of you guys.
I looked around the shop and found maybe 10 little shards that were shaped much like a caveman cutting tool. One of those could easily have sliced right on in somewhere. Kind glad I got hit by a big piece.
This machine has many accessories. It does have a cast iron blade cover. It was not installed. I would not have been able to use a covered wheel. At least not a full cover like it has. The grinder itself has a half cover. I could have used that type. As mentioned, never had a problem for 6 or 7 years. The last stone that was installed before this one came in the same shipment and didn't have any issues. I looked over this stone carefully as well before installing. The only thing to do is to stand aside on startup. A bit further aside than what I did of course.
I also suspect had I had the cover in place, I may have seen more of an explosion of smaller shrapnel rather than mainly 4 big chunks and a few smaller ones. Just speculation and I don't think I ever want to find out.
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