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I was horrified, after I took a #macro #photography and saw that my "clean" finger was filled with #swarf #particles imbedded in the #fingerprint after 3 hours of just teaching in a #machineshop that day.
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As a machinist I will tell you that it's the pieces you can see stuck in your skin with your eyes that are the real problem. Those usually hurt a lot more. Machine shops are filthy and it's up to you to wear glasses and gloves and wash up with soap containing pumice.
A bigger concern to me is the cloud of coolant steam containing lord knows what billowing out of a lathe. I've started wearing a winter coat and hat during work with a fan blasting right at the door to keep the air I breathe clean.
Anyways neat picture. Judging by the tiny chips it looks like the mill is to blame. Makes me glad I run mostly lathe these days. I had something like that in my elbow for a few months. It was about one centimeter long and hurt like hell when pressure was on it.
If you want to run machines the first tool you should buy yourself is good tweezers. I have 6 different pairs of tweezers. You can borrow workshop tools but should stay sanitary and have your own tweezers.
Not a machinist, just an amateur fab guy but sweet Jesus carbide burrs on a die grinder suuuuck for that kind of thing. If they weren't so good at material removal I wouldn't have them because those damn micro metal splinters are the worst. I used to get them stuck in my socks because my shoes were loose and then they would stab my feet.