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!!

[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.

[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!!!

[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!

[Ummgawa]

Man I hate it when that happens....

[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]

Originally Posted by Stuart Adams

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.