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Originally Posted by A930Rocket
When I was younger (and much later), I never wore safety glasses and paid the price with dirt, rust, etc. in my eyes. I recently bought a face shield for when I’m using my cut off wheel. My regular eyeglasses, have helped tremendously.
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Good man!
Doubling up if you wear prescripts is a plus. A metal spinter gets in an eye its annoying and if it rusts (it will start in 10 minutes with the saline (normal water and salt in your eye environment) is even more annoying. You will live.
I have seen guys cut badly, partially scalped and knocked out cold from cut off or angle grinding disc accidents. Over speed is the primary cause of disintegration -for example 22,000 rpm rated disc on a 30,000 rpm muffler cutter. Next twisting the disc or a nick/ fracture on the cutting edge. Full face shields are the go to for disc usage, metal, rock work.
Full face shields also provide a distance buffer from lens to flesh that safety glasses do not as they sit too close to the eye orbits. Side and temple protection is another factor. The right tool for the job for grinding, welding, chemical/ splash/ biologicals, rock, wood, metal all have unique needs for eye protection.
Think goal tending and physical dynamics of projectiles.
Dont be this guy. And he still has the cool fake safety glasses on. With a full face shield this disaster would have been preventable.
