You get a good sized spot of 700 degree, or there abouts, molten lead on your bare skin, and you'll never forget it. And you'll bear the scars for life.
Stupid hurts. Don't be stupid.
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You get a good sized spot of 700 degree, or there abouts, molten lead on your bare skin, and you'll never forget it. And you'll bear the scars for life.
Stupid hurts. Don't be stupid.
gloves for sure though I've been known to cast in shorts
I use a drip o matic so gloves and glasses are standard equipment.
no gloves while casting only when filling the pot
You get a good amount of 700+ degree lead on you, and your skin and flesh will be the gravy.
Now I know how accidents happen. To many people who insist in engaging in unrealistic optimism.
"That's not flying! That's . . . falling with . . . . style!"
Woody. Toy Story
Gloves plus safety glasses for sure. Promelt furnace secured to bench with a bolt is also a must in my opinion.
Gloves for me too...tight fitting ones and eye protection.
Still using the Ove' Gloves
I wear gloves. keeps away the burns.
Does anyone remember the naked casting competitions.....those were fun.
Several times I will take off one glove while I'm working with the mold--lubing sprue plate, tightening/untightening handle pivot or sprue plate.
must say my ungloved hand feels naked and I am much more happy when I put the glove back on
I use one glove on my right hand because I twist the sprue plate with my hand rather than beat it with a stick.
I don't use gloves. I'm prone to fumbling and or dropping things with gloves. I have have very minor burns here and there. I do try to wear long sleeves though.
Gloves, eyeglasses, long sleeved cotton shirt, closed toed shoes.
I don't use gloves. I'm prone to fumbling and or dropping things with gloves. I have have very minor burns here and there. I do try to wear long sleeves though.
So your the one that resurrected this zombie. :Fire:
Where is the guy that casts without handles?
I rode motorcycles for 40 years without a helmet, and would still do it if it weren't forbidden by our euro-d.o.t._
(gloves and engineer boots, yes :wink: ,but MY choice)_
casting & smelting is something else, in my book, anyway: for those who hate gloves, at least a pair of milsurp nomex flying gloves can really help.
I've worked with logging/firewood cutting for thirty-plus years, ALWAYS wearing steel-toed footware. Maybe a decade back I got done with a several-cord detail, and after supper went out to blow (air compressor) off log splitter, and then roll it to its storage spot.. ready for next use. Guess what? The tongue of the tow-behind 27-ton splitter came down squarely on my right foot's big toe. SMASHED!!! To this day, I cannot move the big toe or toe adjacent to it...
I do consider myself lucky -- Murphy Law had the splitter come down on the one-and-only occasion I did not have foot protection.
Does anyone think I'd do a similar gamble, albeit 101% unintentional, with my EYES or any skin -- to NOT wear safety glasses and gloves while casting????? (My late friend Hughie had a "hole" about 1/4" to the right of his right eye -- again, he too was "lucky" -- when a tiny bit of ??? flew out of his lead pot and burned itself in... Bion, he was not (double lucky, eh?) wearing glasses....)
Just me...
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