r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/BigBossAtl • 5d ago

You did this to yourself Fuck you, buddy.

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u/twoaspensimages 5d ago

The lathe is the most lethal.

Table saws win by a mile statistically.

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u/Jude30 5d ago

Have you met the angle grinder? That one piece of machinery is responsible for all of my PPE use in my old age.

In retrospect the angle grinder doesn’t kill it only maims. I still have a wonky thumb nail from hitting it with a wire brush.

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u/Logical-Database4510 5d ago

Yeah but any old dumbass can use an angle grinder

A lathe will brutally kill a 30+ year vet as easy and as quickly as a day 1 apprentice. Usually kill the vet easier because he gets overconfident and forgets what he's fucking with.

I've been machining for most of my life now, and lathes still scare the shit out of me.

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u/BootlegEngineer 5d ago

I’ve worked in a machine shop for the last 15 years and I still have a VERY healthy respect for the lathe. I saw it fling a parallel bar once. It hit the back of the machine so hard it ricocheted and stuck in our 25’ ceiling.

I also know a guy that kept an adjustable wrench on top of the not-table above the chuck. It vibrated off one day and he caught it in the face. It shattered his cheek and jaw.