Tool Safety for Welding Equipment

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Hello, My name is Mac and on behalf of expertvillage.com I would like to discuss tool safety with you today. Now a welder in a welding shop will use a wide variety of tools power tools and hand tools. Lets discuss power tools first, this is a small grinder and it is a very useful tool and you will find them almost everywhere. Now if you pick this tool up and you notice that it has got a frayed electrical cord with exposed wires do not use it, get it repaired. Another thing that I often find in welding shops is the welders will take their shielding guard off of the back of grinder. This is really a bad idea. This can cause some very serious hand injuries. The guard in on there to prevent you from actually bringing your hand into contact with the grinder, the moving part of the grinder the disk while you are working with it. It is also designed that when you set it down on a surface and the wheel is still turning inadvertently that it does not take off on you. It is important that you keep these kinds of tools, grinders, electric drills etc. in tiptop operating condition. Working with a tool in poor condition is a recipe for disaster and injury. The other kinds of tools that you will use are hand tools, wrenches and this a hammer we found a broken one in our shop. Now I have seen a lot of welders over the years take a broken ball-peen hammer like this and instead of replacing the wooden handle they will just weld a piece a pipe on to it and that is really not a good fix. Steel handle on a ball-peen hammer is a kind of fix that is second rate than as you use it the handle can break off and the head can fly away or the handle can slip out of our hand and the hammer can strike someone. Very, very poor idea. Tools maintained properly that the jaws and wrenches are not stripped, so that they are stretched that they slip off of nuts somethings like that. Good condition, good quality tools safe working environment.

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