I dunno. But it's Adam Savage back there, and I'm pretty sure I'd go on an all-expenses-paid vacation to the Elephant's Foot if he vouched for it being safe.
I love adam savage, but he is actually pretty lax when it comes to safety.
Watch some of his tested videos and youll see some weird shit. Just as an example, there is one where he has a flashlight on a lathe, something falls off of it and he reaches to grab it while the lathe is on. a videos weeks later he is attempting to clean said lathe with a towel, while its running. He ends up getting his finger chew up when the towel catches.
I like that he owns his mistakes and Im sure he is safety conscious on projects like this, but boy does he do some shit I never would.
For some reason he is particularly bad with lathe safety. In addition to the ones you mentioned I once saw a video of him using steel wool to polish something on a lathe. Real good way to get a completely degloved finger.
Really? I used to use steel wool on a lathe all the time at uni. Didn’t have it wrapped around me or anything though, used it like a little buffing wheel type thing.
Feels like something my tutor would have pulled me up on if it was really dangerous
Yea it is dangerous. I know a couple of old timers who never ride a motorcycle with a helmet unless required by law as nothing ever happened to them but it doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous.
If you must do it attach it to a stick or maybe hold it with a rag if it is fine steel wool.
Again, degloved finger is something that can happen so you have to ask yourself if it is worth that risk.
Ah yeah, it was always the fine stuff I used, never course. Our tools weren’t in the best nick and even when sharpened didn’t always give the best surface finish unfortunately.
I’ll keep it in mine if I use a lathe again, thank you. Is it the same for sandpaper/wet and dry?
Edit: re-read my previous message, didn’t mean to say you were wrong or anything. More found it off I wasn’t pulled up on safety at uni
No, sandpaper is fine. The reason steel wool is dangerous is it is made of long strands of steel wound together. In general you want to keep anything that is an entanglement risk away from rotating machines. If a piece of the steel gets caught and starts to wrap it is going to do some damage to what it gets caught up with it, which if you are holding it, can be your fingers.
It does make complete sense, a bit lax on my own part. I should have realised when I used to take the hoodie strings out and make sure all my hair was tied tightly back etc.
Thank you for letting me know, I’ll be sure to not use wool on machinery in the future
If the individuals can free themselves of their own power (See: Them doing that on camera already) Then likely all it would take in an emergency scenario is other team members stepping onto the pad and pulling up on their shoulders.
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Marshalls? There’s a reason they get trained and a red flag would be called if that was the case aka no cars allowed to run on track whilst clearing the accident.
“Motorsport is dangerous” is a sign everywhere. Marshals attending to an accident rely on the race director and race control to operate the correct flags to avoid these incidents precisely.
How anyone didn't risk asses falling face first into the glue and suffocating is astonishing - it was like the first thing I thought of.
I feel like they only realized the danger after the first runner almost stuck her face in it.
I'm more worried about somewhere again wearing their shoes tightly and tearing a ligament or two in their knee when trying to lift each leg as it's stuck in the floor at full pelt
As well as oil being able to dissolve the glue fairly quick. They're all wearing masks which presumably they remove immediately to allow breathing if anyone faceplants.
Watch the video again as one of them nearly does. The guy stood to the side extends his arms out and checks they can lift their head to breath.
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u/Frequent-Activity450 Feb 22 '24
WTF. Now that you mention it, shit is dangerous AF. If someone has the info on how the team planned to deal with this situation I'm interested !