Be careful

[67velle]

I spent saturday playing captain safety with all the proper protection welding in some small patches in my cowl
Sunday I went out and cleaned up some of the mess and some how got something in my eye. Then went to work today and had to leave work and go to the eye doctor to get metal removed from my eye! Moral of the story wear safteyglasses even when cleaning up ,this sucks cant work on the car tonight!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

[rockdogz]

Tell me about it... this happened to me too a few months ago. I always wear eye protection, but I think what happened is that a super small piece of metal got in behind my glasses and impregnated itself in my eye. At they doctor they put the weird drops in my eye and looked at it under a special light to find the irritant. The doc said at his office they didn't have an eye kit, which is basically a super small drill bit that they drill into the top layer of the eye to pull out the fragment... he was able to get it out without it though. :wow:

[67velle]

Thought I would spare you the details! But this drill has a burr on the end and the doc had to use it to get all the rust from where the piece was. This has now left a groove in the surface you can see!!! :censored:

[Steve Chryssos]

Been there. In fact, just reading this thread is making my eyes all red and irritated.

[srh3trinity]

I worked for an ophthalmologist before med school and I can't tell you how many times we removed pieces of metal from eyes (one of our clinics was connected to a health clinic at a pipe factory). It always amazed me how quickly it rusted too. Good of you to remind everybody to wear eye protection, as you know it can really be painful. We did see a few cases where somebody got metal in their eye even though they were wearing eye protection.

[oldzzy]

Oh man you just brought back bad memories! I had a hotr piece of metal attach itself to my eye once and the deburrer wouldn't take it off so i had to go to an eye clinic and they used what was like a die grinder to get it off! Not pleasent to say the least!

[rwhite692]

As I have only one good eye (was born that way), I have learned to be very careful to remember to wear protective goggles, etc...

Now if I could just remember to wear my mechanix gloves more often.

This past Saturday, I managed to lose my grip on, and sink my 4" electric grinder's wheel into, the "knuckle" of my right thumb. Due to the lost material there, had to go to the emergency room to get it stitched up. The Mrs. was not amused.... I chunked it down to the bone!

Just a little cut, area-wise, but boy, was it deep! :D

[Ummgawa]

Man I hate it when that happens.... :yes:

[Stuart Adams]

Good advice.

Try and wear eye protection always.

The secret is try and get it out with water or q tip, if you can't DO NOT WAIT- get to an eye doc asap. It is a piece of cake and MUCH less irritating if its removed right away, no drilling needed and a happy eye real quick, within a couple hours most times.

I remove stuff everyday and trust me the ones who put it off pay the price for a few days, no fun. plus it will cost alot more to remove and manage, let alone be a pain in the as_.

Another tip, when done grinding wash your eyebrows and eyelashes good. Alot of times the metal will fall in later from those spots.

[Steve Chryssos]

DO NOT WAIT- get to an eye doc asap.

That's the best advice of all. The first time it happened to me, I waited. Ended up wearing an eye patch for a day or so to "rest" the eye. The patch made an excellent conversation piece, but boy was it annoying.

[67velle]

Thats funny not! two guys at work had the same story of eyebrows holding things till the glasses were off. maybe a faceshield and safetyglasses???? :yes:

[Damn True]

I avoid such problems by not watching what I'm doing. :rofl:

[Blown353]

I've had metal chips in the eye once. I learned to wear glasses/faceshields after that. Luckily no permanent damage.

However, I've also had worse-- several years ago while using a bottle of super-thin CA (superglue) to glue some tires for my R/C car I had a nozzle clog while squeezing the bottle which caused a high-velocity stream of CA to shoot up into my, you guessed it, left eye. Not only did it chemically burn but when CA cures it exotherms (gets hot) and further burned my eye and eyelid. That was about the most painful thing I've ever felt. That, and my eye was now stuck shut and burning!

Went to the ER, they had to cut my eyelashes off and I had to endure the pain of slowly "peeling" my eyelids apart and off my cornea. I then had the eye irrigated for over an hour, the usual dye/scope test (which showed quite a bit of burn damage to the cornea, not to mention the superglue residue). Had to use numbing eyedrops for a few days because of the pain, but within a month or so it recovered to 100% of the visual acuity I had before the accident.

Needless to say I now wear safety glasses when doing anything that could even be POTENTIALLY dangerous... the superglue thing was a 1 in a million freak accident and I learned that 1 time can really, really hurt.

I still have a very small "dark" spot in my right eye; very noticeable if I'm looking at a bright white wall-- it will look like there's a tiny dab of black paint on it, but the spot will move as I move my eye around. I noticed this "spot" just about an hour after rubbing my right eye with a dirty hand (duh... me smart.) I was convinced I ground something into my cornea, but I've had two opthamologists look at it and they both diagnosed it as a vitreous opacity or "floater." I still don't totally buy this explanation as the spot appeared just after rubbing my eye with a dirty hand. Wish I could get rid of it. My brain has *mostly* tuned it out, but in all-white or very light colored surroundings it's quite annoying.

Troy

[rockdogz]

Another tip, when done grinding wash your eyebrows and eyelashes good. Alot of times the metal will fall in later from those spots.

Doh! That's probably what happened!! The weird thing was I didn't feel anything at first - not till the next day at work I couldn't keep my eye open...

[68protouring454]

hell yeah protect them, it sucks bad, i got real bad welding flash once had to wear patch for 2 days, then the worst was being brilliant and when cleaning my spray gun i put some thinner in it to clean it and i usually shake it up while spraying to wash it down, well it all went good until i shook it and i did not put the cover on it, needless to say i got a face full, eyes full of lacquer thinner, and let me tell you, you think it stings to get it in a cut on your hand, times that by 10, because not only does it burn, when you think its gonna get in your eyes you close your eyes tighter so its just burning away at all the little wrinkles, well 25 mins of cold cold water flush they finnaly cooled off, but man it sucks, for something so important to us i find myself so lazy when it comes to this.
jake

[Rick Dorion]

My doctor said I get no volume discount.

I wear safety goggles and one of the face shields as I once got a piece of boulder (felt like it ) in my eye around the goggles.

[sick65]

This maybe a little of subject..A buddy of mine and I was doing some welding on my truck a couple years back. He decided to sit on the ground to get to the bottom of the weld. Not thinking about it, he had a torn place in the crotch of his pants. Yep you guess it...hot welding sparks on the boys. Never seen someone move so quickly. :willy:

[Stuart Adams]

About any place but there, LOL.

It's amazing to me all the stupid things I've done before, that I'm still here!!

[rwhite692]

It's amazing to me all the stupid things I've done before, that I'm still here!!

Same here, Amen to that!! :D

[67velle]

You guys reminded me of a time I was putting the lid on my gravity feed spray gun I had it filled with duponts 222 slow drying adhesion promotor the lid and my hand went in it with quite the force out came the 222 on my face! Another case of no safety glasses boy did that hurt :censored: