On Friday 30 March 2007, born4something wrote:
Hi Vikki,
Don't feel too bad about that. A while back I made a similar blunder.
I knew cast iron had a rather high carbon content (~5% from memory)
but had never machined it before. So I mounted up my brand new face
plate to give it an initial facing cut - to true it. Wanting a
decent finish I kept up a goodly supply of WD40 aerosol. On a 160mm
disk it flicked everywhere. I had a nice line up the splash guard,
up the wall behind, fell short of the ceiling, down the driver's
door on my wife's car, across the floor and up my shirt. It took
some cleaning up.
So there are at least two of us who will remember not to lubricate
cast iron next time!
Comparatively I was lucky, all I had was a goopy pile in the tailstock
and some spatter on the drill press table!
Next time I will remember that. One has to be so careful about using
fluids around spinning things here and the less of it the better!
My face plate is still in the bag with the red goo, I'm very glad you
told me this story before I got to it :-)!
Take care, Vikki.
--
Victoria Welch, WV9K/7
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher
(1820-1903)
