It's amazing how fast you can kick off a rigger boot when you get a spatter down there too. Worse though I've twice had the spatter attack my 'nads. Sounds fun in a schadenfreude way when it's someone-else but again you can win the gold for how fast you can drop your pants in such a scenario.
I've had cutting discs violently disintegrate on me. It's very scary and I was seriously glad of the welding gauntlets I had on at the time. It still stung like hell though. I think the worst grinder accident was setting my fleece on fire with the sparks. Again speed undressing saved any issue.
I too just untwist the disc to get them off a grinder but I'd agree that having two is much better. I have a 9" for cutting and a 4 1/2 for a flap disc plus a proper chop saw which makes much better cuts than the hand-helds ever will. Got it for a bargain £40 at my local car boot sale. After destroying many cheap 240V items I only use the much better made 110v stuff these days. It works out much cheaper to buy good ones.
I've had cutting discs violently disintegrate on me. It's very scary and I was seriously glad of the welding gauntlets I had on at the time. It still stung like hell though. I think the worst grinder accident was setting my fleece on fire with the sparks. Again speed undressing saved any issue.
I too just untwist the disc to get them off a grinder but I'd agree that having two is much better. I have a 9" for cutting and a 4 1/2 for a flap disc plus a proper chop saw which makes much better cuts than the hand-helds ever will. Got it for a bargain £40 at my local car boot sale. After destroying many cheap 240V items I only use the much better made 110v stuff these days. It works out much cheaper to buy good ones.