Randall,
I don't think it was Rex this happened to. But, did you know about the
possibility of creating a thermite fire from hot iron chips hitting a mix of
aluminum and iron powder? Some things are obvious to the all knowing, but,
some of us may have forgotten the obvious. This sort of thing might rate a
mention. Or, would you rather all be exposed to a Darwinian moment each time
we start to use a tool?
Michael Lowe
Napa CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@NAVCOMTECH.COM>
To: "shop-talk" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: RE: warning - explosive metal dust
>
> Rex Burkheimer - WM wrote :
> >
> > Interestingly there is no warning of this possible occurrence in
> > the safety
> > section of the manufacture's owner's manual.
>
> Rex :
>
> I'm sorry to hear you got hurt. Truly, it could have been much worse,
> thermite is nasty stuff.
>
> But, IMO it is completely unreasonable to expect the tool mfgr to think of
> every d*mn fool way someone could mis-use their tool, and have to warn
> against it !
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