Watch them grinder blades

[hillhead]

Today i was using the grinder to do a socket cut in a 10x10 porcelain when the thing jumped and caught my fore finger :yikes::yikes::yikes:
All i could see was a deep grind out of my finger right beside a vein !!!It burnt my skin too so extremely little blood.
I checked the Marcrist CK850 blade,it was well wore but actually had a piece missing from it:yikes:
also a few cracks visible so this is damn dangerous if not caught on in time.
I was lucky i didn't dig deeper into my finger or sever the vein !!
Check your blades please

 

[Sean Page]

Hope you're ok Joe, my brother had a disc shatter on him a couple of years ago, since then I check mine regular. He was very lucky, he ended up with a huge lump on his thumb knuckle the size of a golf ball but it could've been far worse. :yikes:

 

[White Room]

Don't use grinders to many good quality wet cutting machines available:whistling:

 

[hillhead]

It's dangerous when things like that happen,i had no pain but a bad gash on my hand which my wife had bandaged up to try and pull it close! hope it works.

 

[DHTiling]

I have a Dewalt grinder..( got it with the Dewalt wet cutter) and i have a Norton turbo blade in.. no probs at all with it.

Now the marcrist is a thin blade and IMO they are to watch as they can warp with heat quicker than say the normal 2mm thick blades, and warping can cause them to shatter.

I only use mine for stone work.. dressing internal corner cuts and plunge cuts and shaping curves...etc etc.

So it is only cutting softer materials and not hard tiles like porcelain...

 

[Alan.P]

Close call, hope your on the mend soon

 

[Scott]

Ouch! Good job it cauterised itself with the heat.

Ive seen a couple of nasty injuries with larger grinders and dont like them at all. Mate took his top lip off under his nose cutting a doorway in a wall. His moustache was down the side of his mouth and you could see all his teeth!

 

[mikethetile]

ive had some nasty cuts from grinder blades and still have the scars, problem is you take flesh out to the width of the blade so the cut cant close up, it does heal but its slow and leaves a scar

 

[Rob Z]

Joe, OUCH. I was careless with a grinder about 10 years ago and it cut my middle finger deeply. :yikes: Now I'm a bit more careful.

 

[paulyoung666]

it is always worth making sure that a halfwit aint passed you a grinder with a stone blade in it when grinding metal :mad2:

 

[mikebidd]

Superglue your cut mate it stings a little but will heal quicker.

 

[diamondtiling]

Heard it all now, you will do anything to get out of work Joe.

:lol:

 

[hillhead]

Heard it all now, you will do anything to get out of work Joe.

:lol:

out of work my ***.lol.im eatin my first lunch here after grouting big splashback then off to next job within an hour or so! On time for rest at the minute.

 

[user123]

Ouch. Thanks for the warning though, I'll be doubly careful, quite like my new toy I'm getting used to slowly....

Get some vitamin E capsules, prick them with a needle, one a day, and one last thing at night and spread the pure vitamin E oil over hte scar. Will heal much quicker and leave no or hardly any scar.

 

[Dan]

Dr Mosaic Girl heals all!

Unlucky Joe. It's one of those things. Well done for keeping at it but make sure it doesn't get infected, keep it clean and keep changing the bandage etc. I've heard the superglue thing before but haven't tried it. I'd probably go with Gisela's advice though to be fair. Sounds much more normal :lol:

And thanks for the warning, I think we all do need to check blades and tools a lot more than most do. Especially when you're doing lots of smaller jobs where the tools are in and out of the van a bit more than usual. Only takes a minute to check any tool.

 

[borgie]

sorry to hear about your accident mate. i think it maybe the marcrist blade. i had a 2 week old marcrist blade snag on me when i was cutting some super hard proc. didn't get hurt, but the blade had a big kink in it. i still have it somewhere. i did wonder if i could get my money back, or was it my fault? never did bother in the end. be careful out there!