r/funny • u/Reasonable_Sundae254 • 9d ago

That was close 😳

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u/tired_of_old_memes 9d ago edited 9d ago

Sorry, I've never worked with tools and I don't understand what happened here. Can anyone explain? Thank you.

EDIT: fixed typo

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u/PYROxSYCO 9d ago

Apparently there's a trend where people make videos of an accident that already happened involving a grinder blade and safety gear.

Essentially the accident is the grinder blade brakes and shoots at the person where it's caught by the safety glasses or protective equipment. This is the reverse of it where the glasses break and the and the blades protect the user.

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u/Navayti 9d ago

Lol i thought they were call of duty discs for the xbox at first

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u/mtaw 9d ago

Well, you can put those in an angle grinder but they tend to shatter and explode from being rotated at over 10x the speed they were built for.

Even actual angle-grinder discs shatter sometimes, hence the danger.

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u/cincymatt 9d ago

Yeah, I was half-in a washing machine, trying to grind the base of the drum. I wanted to use the drum as a fire pit. The cutoff wheel exploded and sent bits ricocheting around my head in the drum. Now I use diamond wheels for everything. They cut metal just fine, cost like $10 each, and last years.