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I was just flicking through some of the other articles written for safety week, and I came across a little gem on John Brien’s site. The concept is incredibly simple. Your dust extractor is useful for more than just pulling generated shavings and dust from the machine in use. Even if you are not actively [...]
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Fire in the Galley. A short slideshow video of the result of a simple fire, and the resulting damage (in a very short space of time). I attended this fire after the actual incident (we were on the ship next door) to document the situation. Note the result from the heat that quickly resulted – [...]
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So what is the best way to fight a fire? No to start one of course. Bloody obvious huh, but when was the last time you really looked at your shed, and the degree of fire risk out there? Fire requires 3 things to exist: heat, fuel, oxygen. Remove one of these three factors, and [...]
Filed under: Safety, Shed | Tagged: Boundary Cooling, Fighting, Fire, Fire Blanket, Fire Extinguisher, Prevention, Toxic Gas | 9 Comments »
Following on from an earlier article of mine on respiratory safety, I thought it appropriate to discuss some of the fixed systems I use in my shop, which helps negate some of the respiratory threats in the workshop. I say helps negate, because at the end of the day no system is infallible and it [...]
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Anyone looking for one of these at the moment? There is one on eBay (no – nothing to do with me) going for under $100 with 20 minutes to go. Pretty good deal – even I am tempted! Ended up going for just over $200.
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I’m having increasing doubts about “The Ultimate Router Table”. Not that I don’t think I was on the right track, but I just can’t get it to the level of quality I want for the price. So the promise of what the table could be is still seemingly just out of reach – I can’t [...]
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I had reason to pop across to the Steel City website, and I guess I haven’t been on there for a long time because the first thing that jumped out of the screen at me was their awesome logo. Being a fan of molten steel, forging, casting, etc, the idea that there is still an [...]
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A really good first step when trying to improve your environment and practices to increase your overall safety, is to know just what you are trying to guard against, minimise, or eliminate. So step 1 really is to conduct a Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment. There are a number of different formulae for quantifying risk [...]
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The first complete week in May is again Safety Week for Woodworking Blogs, so over the next 5 days I will be covering a number of safety related topics. These posts will also be consolidated under the “Safety” tag at the top of the page, as are the previous safety posts, so for an every-growing [...]
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it is more productive just going to bed. After a number of false starts over the weekend (too many things to do, not enough time), I finally slipped into the shed around 10pm. Couldn’t think of any particular task, so thought I’d turn a Tiger Myrtle Sierra Pen. At that time of night, I needed [...]
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After lots of planing, sanding, assessing and ……no, that’s about it…… the reclaiming effort resulted in slightly smaller pieces of firewood. There were just too many checks, holes, cracks, splits and insect damage to justify continuing with the firewood reclaimation. Oh well, no harm, no foul. On a slightly unrelated topic, it again went to [...]
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The Cool Tools show on pay-TV got mentioned here recently for their MagSwitch feature. I was watching the show tonight, and the first tool out of the blocks was the Triton MOF001. Sad- it still looks good. Speaking of Cool Tools, Worx also made an appearance with a new circular saw- the bladerunner. Worx/Rockwell really [...]
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