Metal Power Tools - Remember Them??

[crash325]

A word of Caution, if you still use these metal handled tools, Be sure to check the cords. If a wire breaks it can accidentally electrify the handle. If replacing cords it is best to add a grounded cord to it. Plus be sure to use a grounded extension cord. These old tools have claimed a lot of lives>> Just 2 cents.

Seams that you have heard things that i haven't. No one or anyone that I have ever know was ever killed by metal power tool. But I'm only 71 so it may happen any day now.

A new cord is a good idea anytime one goes bad. That be plastic or metal. My cords are all still good and I have never felt a shock.

Better send out the "Safety Police" as I may let my Grand son start using them. :thumbsup:

 

[johnrex62]

Can you imagine what a case a child labor law attorney would have had in your situation?

yep. less than the value of a pile of beans. Family business. Would have been taking food out of my mouth to sue my parents. Not to mention I would have learned nothing about the world and how things work.

 

[MMagis]

Heck yes...I have experienced both 110 and 220 shocks and usually 220 will knock you back while 110 will hold and kill you....

Never heard that before. I've been shocked by 110v more than once. Guess I was lucky, cause I'm still around.

 

[rswyan]

Never heard that before. I've been shocked by 110v more than once. Guess I was lucky, cause I'm still around.

Me either ... and I've been "tickled" by 110v probably at least a half dozen times ... or more .... never had a problem getting away from it.

 

[jayste]

People have been killed by 110v through tools?

Yes, I've known two people who've died this way. One was working on a metal silo and another was laying on the ground under his house.

 

[Combustix]

Have my parents old blender don't even know who makes it one speed and metal base early 50's issue. It's the end of the day tool on a hot summer day.

 

[JDgreen227]

Me either ... and I've been "tickled" by 110v probably at least a half dozen times ... or more .... never had a problem getting away from it.

If you are "tickled" as you put it, odds are you are poorly grounded. If you were touching bare earth or a water pipe at the same time, odds are you would get a real jolt.

 

[Ken]

Seams that you have heard things that i haven't. No one or anyone that I have ever know was ever killed by metal power tool. But I'm only 71 so it may happen any day now.

A new cord is a good idea anytime one goes bad. That be plastic or metal. My cords are all still good and I have never felt a shock.

Better send out the "Safety Police" as I may let my Grand son start using them. :thumbsup:

Read your earlier post of the shop with drill press and other tools. Was going to offer a shop bench and drill press ship vise that my Father used as teanager. But since were about the same age I'm 75 guess it will go into the Estate sale like most all the rest of the tools
I have decided the younger group don't have the knowledge to use tools anymore.
The comment of not knowing anyone killed by metal power tools. used to work for El Paso Gas co. and safety man came through the work site and cut all power cords to tools off at 12" and then gave them grounded plugs to reattach . His reasoning was since most people use extension cords having a dis-connect so close to tool . When shocked the jerk reaction would cause seperation of power. This was a long time before the fault dis connect outlets of today. My self walking past a Safeway store in Williams Ariz. saw a man crawl into a dumpster with extension cord to drill hole to drain water from snow melt. I paused near the outlet where he was getting power. and as soon as he started the drill his jerking and trying to get away from the drill would of soon killed him if I had not yanked the cord from the outlet. After he had quit vomiting and was able to talk he couldn't discribe the pain he had been in.
ken

 

[rswyan]

If you are "tickled" as you put it, odds are you are poorly grounded. If you were touching bare earth or a water pipe at the same time, odds are you would get a real jolt.

Ummm ... yeah ....

...... no .... "tickled" was just a little editorial license ..... saying I got bit would be more accurate ....

I'm pretty sure it was "a real jolt" .... considering that I was the thing completing the circuit between black and white ....

Had a friend that used to work media blasting electrical transformers in substations .... one day he got a little too close and caught an arc (there's a reason why those insulators are the length that they are) .... and actually lived to tell about it.

A bunch of us, including him, went up to Kent later that day to go drinking .... wuz walking around downtown on our way to another bar and this guy just passed out mid-stride while we walking down the sidewalk ..... and we were just gittin' started so it wasn't the alcohol ....

I dunno if he's ever been right since ....