The Zero Budget build

[king casey]

Ouch!!
Did they 'bulk bill'?
'But Doc...I have a 'zero budget' to maintain....

cheers, Mark.

[G-Axe]

Ouch!!
Did they 'bulk bill'?
'But Doc...I have a 'zero budget' to maintain....

cheers, Mark.

Haha, universal health care is a wonderful thing.

So I've taken the time to put it all together, and I was not even remotely safe in what I was doing.



First of all, that red hinge at the back? A safety guard, blithely ignored.

Secondly, my hand was never far away from that spindle. I really should have been holding it by the pickup hole. Or even better, I should have engineered a way to hold it with some kind of lever. My workpiece will have screw holes, it would be really easy to mount to a long bit of scrap.

Instead:



The pad of my index finger copped 4 hits - I'm extremely lucky my finger only really brushed across the top of the spindle and so there was no "tear out".



My middle finger copped the worst of it. I'll spare you all the details.

And as you can see in this last shot:



It bit into that edge, and turned the corner. I'm not sure if the spindle transfers rotational force, or if it was angular momentum with my wrist as a fulcrum but I'm not sure it matters. I've learned my lesson.

Stay safe everyone!

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