Garage Shop: Tools

That is SWEET!!

 

ooh ooh I know this one! It's because handles usually outlast a file, so have a swappable file for a given handle makes sense (and saves the file co a buck or so)

 

I'll be honest, I had no idea files were even supposed to have handles.....

 

LMAO. I know right? Those inserts have different patterns too to fit different file ends, star, wide, narrow...cool as hell.
Zim
(sort of silly to be excited about a file handle, but I live for this shit..ahahahahahhaha)

 

If you do a lot of filing, they are way more comfy. But at that point, I already have the flap disk out

 

A future minor Darwin award winner right there.

 

Why, because my hands may be a little uncomfortable as I use a file? Oh nooooo.

 

It was when I was applying a zipdisk to a bicycle last week that I realized I may be a little overzealous.

 

Wait until you ram the tang into your palm real good. Punctures like that hurt and heal slow.

 

Ah yeah, that wouldn't feel too great. I always have my welding gloves on anyway when I'm filing so I should be alright.

 

"Filing"

 

Mr. Elmo always said, make sure you have a handle on a file, especially when using on a LATHE....LMAO. Of course, if we still had shop classes, you'd know that right. HA!
Zim

 

I had shop class in middle and high school. But not on lathes, generally stuck to woodworking with planers, table saws, etc.

 

I thought the same thing for a long time.

Hand filing isn't really the problem. Using a file to chamfer/debur on a lathe while the part is spinning is a thing that happens. If the file catches and doesn't have a handle, no glove is going to protect you. It just becomes more stuff in the wound channel to dig out.

 

You should not have a glove on while operating a large or grinder. A kid grinding off half his thumb when the grinder grabbed his glove is why my high school killed the shop class.

 

Yeah. My main point was that a glove isn't going to save you in all instances.

I had a glove grabbed by a drill bit once working a drill press. It sucked my hand into the bit and put a pretty good gash on the back of my hand. I was wearing gloves handling the plates I was drilling and forgot to take them off.

 

Be the hero in the parts store. Get one of these. Know before you go.
Zim

 

Lowes sells these little laminated versions of this for like $3 and its SO handy!

 

Stop screwing around

you screw around in shop class , you're gonna get hurt