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Always good fun to play with, big belt sanders being no exception. Sadly on occasion mistakes will be made that do ruin the fun slightly, like that of which a friend of mine made while at work in a machine shop one day...

He was merrily sanding away, letting his mind wonder until the piece he was working on slipped from his hand, leaving only the end of his finger pressed to the rather quickly spinning sanding drum...

In actual fact the event itself wasn't that bad, the 'oh no' second of realisation, then the moment of surprise that the finger that used to be a centimetre longer than it is now doesn't actually seem to be bleeding, bit of a mess though, so off to a sink to give it a clean and see what damage he has done.
It was when he started washing the muck off his finger that he realised that the sander was moving quick enough and was hot enough after being in use that it cauterised the wound and stopped it bleeding, and that sadly the act of cleaning off the muck also cleaned off what was holding back the blood...

One quick visit to casualty later and a nice big bandage and everything was pretty much alright, albeit slightly shorter than previously.
(442, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 23:23, 1 reply)

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...had a news clipping from Mexico a few years ago about a guy that used the smoother inside of the belt to stimulate his bell end, until one day he slipped.....
(Oil Slick, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:19, closed)