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67velle · #11 01-16-2006, 08:04 PM

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????

Damn True · #12 01-16-2006, 10:34 PM

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

Blown353 · #13 01-16-2006, 10:47 PM

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 · #14 01-16-2006, 11:43 PM

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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 · #15 01-17-2006, 07:38 AM

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 · #16 01-17-2006, 08:57 AM

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 · #17 01-17-2006, 09:11 AM

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.

**Stuart Adams** · #18 01-17-2006, 09:48 AM

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 · #19 01-17-2006, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Stuart Adams

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

Same here, Amen to that!!

67velle · #20 01-17-2006, 05:04 PM

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