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Have a story about safety.
Went to do some oxy cutting the other day, I knew the hoses were a bit cracked but used them anyway.
As I was using the cutter one of the hoses ruptured and a fireball came out, burnt the underneath of my foream, luckily I was wearing a long sleeved shirt and luckily it was cotton and not sythetic because cotton just burns but synthetic melts into the skin, but unluckily it burnt my arm where the slit is where the sleeve buttoned up. So with the skin all burnt black and strips of skin hanging down my arm like a barbecue sausage with split skin I was not a happy camper.
It's extremely painful.
So check your gear oxy hose is not that expensive I just never got around to replacing it. Now it is cut into little pieces and in the bin.
I guess I was lucky the fireball never set the car on fire as well.
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I work in heavy Industry, am a member of HIESN (Hunter Industry Electrical Safety Network) and sit on the Australian Standards committee for AS1674.2 (which co-incidently is a welding safety Standard) and I am always amazed at what we accept at home, but |
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do those hoists happen to be the ones (2 or 4 post) now advertised for around 3-4K?
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No, secondhand units. Where are the new ones advertised? I'll have a look, but I'm not sure I'd trust getting under a Chinese made one. At least Molnar hoists are Australian made, and have won international design awards for their safety innovations. |
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Take a look at this about jack safety: http://www.nohsc.gov.au/...tistics/report_jacks.pdf1978 Kingswood SL |
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This is all good food for thought, and it's the simplest safety precautions that some people bypass (sometimes "she'll be right" can kill you).
Nicko, I must admit thought that the electrician in that report, the one who jacked his car up and then stood |
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The Aftermarket Industry continually attends and sits on numerous standards meetings and it is still amazing that jacks and asbestos brake pads are still causing problems..Safety is one issue you can't take short cuts with.Many say "it won't happen to me
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As a former Boilermaker tradesman for 11 years. I can say you were very lucky not to have a full flashback to the acetyline cylinder. I have seen one of those suckers go off and they peel open like an orange not bad considering that the bottle if full of
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quote:
Originally posted by Nicko
Take a look at this about jack safety:
http://www.nohsc.gov.au/PDF/Statistics/report_jack
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Ken I had those flashback protector things on but they were fitted at the cylinder end maybe they should be at the handpiece end but that makes the handpiece a bit heavy for extended use.
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Looking at the jack incidents on Nicko's website link the root cause of most of them seems to be inappropriate use of a jack or inadequate precautions taken when using ramps. I'm lucky with my Overlander - I don't even have to jack it to get underneath. H |
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i was astounded reading that link from nicko, especially about the people who were doing things like not useing the hand brake and removeing the gearbox or tail shaft. i think it never herts to put the spare tire under the car when its jacked up, if the j
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when takin a wheel off for any reason I always put the spare underneath it just might make the difference between broken ribs and crushed to death
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Guys,
If there are any electricians out there. We'd better also point out that we "lay the wheels on there flat side".
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I use axle stands if I'm taking a wheel off (on my Land Rover I don't need to jack it to crawl under), I didn't pay a lot for these axle stands so although they're rated, you can never be too careful. I jack the car, then let the stand take the weight but |
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in some states it is law to have flashback arrestors fitted to both the troch end and the bottle end of the hose.
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