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Hit a rock with my cross-peen hammer and learned a lesson about eye protection
Last Tuesday I was forging a bottle opener out of some coil spring in my backyard shop here in Tucson. I hit what I thought was a clean piece but there was a tiny bit of scale stuck to it. That piece flew up and hit me right in the safety glasses. Left a nice scratch in the lens too. Makes me wonder how often do you guys replace your safety glasses after they take a hit like that?
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river_scott10d ago
Good catch. I swap mine out as soon as the scratch starts messing with my vision or if the frame gets tweaked. That little line of distortion catches your eye and pulls your focus away from what you're doing, which is just as dangerous as not wearing them at all.
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lee7339d ago
Man, do you think waiting too long to swap them could mess with your depth perception too?
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