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Have you noticed that tool & die makers don't wear rings.
Those who make and handle fine work don't wear rings that might mar it!

Neither my late dad who owned a tool & die shop nor the men who worked in his shop wore rings.

Yet some who handle firearms do!

Don't tool and die makers work around machines that can snatch off a finger by a ring?

They don't wear neckties when using a lathe either.

Same thing in my business. No jewelry. Too dangerous
My wedding ring nearly tore my finger off as i stepped down off a truck. Got caught on a packing crate nail. Nearly had to cut it off, and the bone was visible. Lots of stiches.

They don't wear them so they don't lose their finger in rotating machinery.

I don't give 2 chits if someone wears it while handling a firearm because it's rather unlikely to rip your finger out at the knuckle.

I'd also say - highly unlikely to mar the finish on a rifle with one with normal handling. Steel of the rifle being rather harder than gold.

It has nothing to do with marring a finish, you dumbass; it has to do with not catching a ring or other jewelry in the machinery and losing a finger or more.

Just when we think DumbassDon can't possibly get any more stupid, he goes and proves us wrong; his stupidity truly is boundless.

Does this pertain to nipple rings?

Electricians are prone not to wear them either. The last thing you want is a conductor wrapped around your finger if your working live panels.

You sure it's so you won't mar the finish on those wires?

Had a party chief that had two nipple rings.

Kept telling him to not take his shirt off in hot weather. He wouldn't listen...

Snagged one on some brush while running GPS on an ATV... He only had one ring left after that...

Ditto...

Welders too.


They don't want to mar the finish on the electrode grip...

Speaking of that - make sure you don't wear your ring when cleaning battery terminals or replacing the battery etc.. One guy around here happened to brush a terminal with his ring when holding a wrench and it melted around his finger..

If I heard/ saw a ring hit my 100 % gun, and I've heard it before, I'd be pissed.

Treemen don't go much for rings. The real question is; Does the ring hold off or draw in women? Some, like most of men, are in the, "it's not the kill, it's the thrill of the chase." camp. There are a couple of thoughts in the narcisissts/hunters head.

Spoken like a true lib ass hole..

THE HORROR!

Most farmers/ranchers ditch the rings too, at least while working.

2 million sperms swimming up stream, and this is the one who had to make it

I started my career as a rotating equipment engineer in a refinery. I wore nothing on my hands/arms/neck and Nomex took care of the rest.

My hunting partner has been a master electrician for over 50 years and has seen a number of fatalities and accidents from guys wearing wedding rings while working with electricity. The one that stands out is one of his former partners who's wife always berated him for taking off his wedding ring while working. A few weeks later he was handling some high voltage wires and received a massive jolt of electricity, killing him. Found out that the gloves he was wearing had a hole worn in the ring finger from the wedding ring, hot wire contacted ring and that was it...

LMFAO...

Most carpenters avoid wearing rings.
Don't join the "stub club".

No loose clothes, jewelry,long sleeves when you are working in a machine shop.

Did you ever notice that mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy?

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I dont wear a ring while shooting or playing bass either.

If you own a 100% gun, means you've touched it then. Means its not 100% in my books.

But the flipping things folks worry about.

My guns are tools. I use them. Scratches on the truck or the guns are not a big deal.

When I was working in more dangerous jobs, I never wore a ring for my safety. now that I"m more or less a desk job I"ve started to wear it. Wife agreed with both positions.

Does the heresy of wearing rings and handling guns apply to Prince Alberts?

A kid'll eat ivy too,,,,,,,,,,,,,wouldn't you????
I've been a tool and die maker since 1970. Got married in '72 and have worn a ring since that day.

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell I could "Damage" with a ring in a tool and die shop, myself.

WIERD, post, this one.

Oh, and for the OP,....If you're not being asked to don clean cotton gloves, it's NOT a "100% gun"

I used to know a guy who removed his wedding band on every hunt.

Of course, he didn't do it until after the hunt, when he was headed into town.

So I guess that means he had his sh** together.

Until he comes home and bitches at his wife for not packing him any socks,...
at which point she tells him she did, she packed them in his gun case!... huh oh....

I bet there are some threatening pm's flying around for this thread

Our electricians aren't allowed to wear watches with metal bands or rings. No skilled trades are allowed to wear rings. It's a violation of shop rules, good for some unpaid time off.

Lots of nurses don’t wear their wedding rings at work, the diamond interferes with getting their exam gloves on and off and can cut right through them. That makes for some interesting mistakes when you hit on the married ones, although it creates opportunities for the married nurses as well...

I quit wearing my wedding band at work after it hung on exposed bolt threads as I was climbing down a vertical conveyance support structure. Near the bottom I let go and dropped the last foot or two to the ground. Lucky for me my feet touched the ground before I ran out of arm length. Wasn't near as bad as it could have been but still hurt and cost me a some blood and a little skin.

As far as harming the metal finish on firearms I believe sweat and acid in body oils is a much more common and likely threat than finger rings are.

My granddad started as a T & D man. Had a story about a guy in management that came down to help demo a new lathe. His tie got caught and started to reel him in. The only thing that saved him was it was a cheap tie and he push back strong enough to break the tie. That would be scary!

Thank God! Could you imagine if one of the slower ones made it?

When we were kids, a friend of mine had a ring made from a foreign coin of some sort. One day (unfortunately I was gone and missed the action) he jumped out of swing, the ring caught in the chain, and pop goes the finger at the second joint. A local farmer achieved the same result when he was descending on of those "wall ladders" from the hay mow. He slipped, the ring caught on a protruding nail head, and again, the digit departed. After those incidents, I have never been able to wear a ring - my wife understands.

I'd hazard a guess it's also a violation of OSHA rules...

Are you suggesting it didn't?

Dmn near ripped my finger out by the root when my ring got hooked on the floor grate latch on a KC-135 crew entry door. I was in kind of a hurry to get out of the airplane, good thing I had a firm grip on the ladder with my right hand. Haven't worn a ring since.

Maybe the first ones there were doing an "end zone celebration"???

Either the others were dead or they swam the other way.

It seems you fellows found my initial response too gentle.

Not really, we just wanted to get a couple of good kicks in as well.

Google "de-gloving" if you want some pictures to go with this thread.

Local fellow that comes in to where I work managed to do that with his right forearm...it really, really looks like it hurt a lot.

I've had to write a few to many reports about this kinda' thing, having provided first aid and transport to WAY too many industrial accidents, this "I always where my rings" stunt amongst.

voluntarily view more ?

...no thanks.

GTC

i worked on a metal cutting line in a factory not long after i got out of high school. we got rolls of galvanized metal that weight 30-40,000 lbs each.we cut them into narrow strips to make car mufflers out of. the cutting line had a roller that was 10ft wide and about 8in in diameter. my boss had told me a number of times to stop wearing my class ring while working because i could hang it on something and break or even lose my finger. we had to pick that heavy roller up every day a few times to change the blades that went on it to cut the metal. one day we were removing it from the arm it sat on the guy on the other end slipped and it pinned my hand directly under one of those blades.the only thing that kept it from cutting my hand half off was my ring. the blade landed perfectly on top of the set in my ring .it flattened the ring slightly around my finger and crushed the stone in it.after getting the roller off i was barely able to get the ring off my finger.

my boss was pretty happy that i was wearing my ring that day.

Several years back a local older farmer around here made an extremely painful mistake that came very close to ending his life while working too close to the power takeoff of his tractor with it still running and PTO engaged.

The loose fitting, baggy crotch coveralls he was wearing at the time got snagged by the PTO and commenced to twisting and twisting his coveralls, along with his privates. He lost a lot of blood, had a long, slow recover, but lived.

Nipple rings are O.K.

Show'em if ya got'em!

Happened to a young boy a couple of years older than me. Mom was death on PTOs as I was growing up - even when I got to high school.

My dad was a volunteer FF and responded to a call and the farmer had gotten his loose jeans caught in the PTO and it separated his leg at the knee joint. Dad packed the leg in snow and it rode in the ambulance to the hospital but there was to much damage to be used.

I can't imagine the pain having your leg torn off at the knee joint.

Exactly ^^^^^

I've managed to become nearly trapped in some complex machinery without a ring. For sure I would have lost a digit by now if I'd had that band on.

Dad used to always take off his watches when he started welding, or had to deal with a confined space, but it was more to keep his watch from getting damaged. I don't recall him ever taking off his wedding band.

When I was working in Dad's shop everybody worked barehanded, unless it was hot or sharp. Now seems like all mechanics have gloves to protect their hands, from dirt. I'm not sure I could start a damn bolt while wearing gloves.

Never have seen anyone get jewelry hung in a machine. I did see the aftermath of a young guy running a drill press while wearing gloves. The workpiece was too close to the spinning bit, and the bit grabbed his glove & tore off his thumb.

I possibly saved a customer's life one day, when I looked out of my office window and saw a salesman walking him through the fourslide department. If you're not familiar with them, fourslides usually have exposed shafts which turn as the machine runs. Yes the customer is getting an up-close look at the machine, with his tie dangling in the shafts. I ran out of the office yelling at them. The salesman was greatly embarrassed about it and never was very friendly to me thereafter. Oh well.

When I was running a shop - guys wore the gloves all the time, not due to dirt but sharp edges and the like.

Also brake clean is used so much, a lot of guys really wanted to limit their skin contact to it if they could.

Didn't bother me none that they wore them, tho we weren't running PTO's and the like.

I'm a journeyman tool and die maker. I first went to work in a machine shop in 1967, before my vacation in SEA. Came back, did my apprenticeship....

First thing I've always done after unlocking my tool chest is take off the wedding ring and put it in a drawer until the end of the shift. Around rotating spindles it's preferable to have a shop apron keeping your clothes flat and clean. Also, nothing below the elbows. Gloves around rotating spindle machinery are strictly a no no.

Most types of tool steels and other engineering materials aren't going to be damaged much by a gold or silver ring.

Just when you've thought you've heard everything....the Campfire never disappoints.

Next up:

The affects of unwaxed silverware on chapped lips...

I was working in a shop full of lathes, some of which had "wobble cutters" on the apron that ran off of the lead screw to manipulate the cutting tool in sync with the revolving part. Lots and lots of moving parts.

One of the operators was the long-haired body builder type. One day the inevitable happened and his hair got caught in a revolving part of the wobble cutter. He couldn't reach the shut-off but he managed to get two hands braced against the machine and kept his skull out of the moving parts. He just held rigid and let it pull his scalp off!

Cookie used to work in a lab using some seriously stout centrifuges (like thousand pounders). It took several minutes for them to wind down when switched off. A coworker lifted the lid and peered into one as it was slowing. A wisp of her hair was caught, and exactly half of her hair was instantly ripped from her scalp. Skin and scalp remained intact, but one half of her head was literally bald.

Had things been going slower, any number of events could have transpired like: scalp or face ripped from her head, broken neck, face pulled into spinning glass tubes, etc. Cookie, who had hair down to her butt at the time, kept it up in Princess Leia buns thereafter. Machinery can bite, and at times bite really fast.

On the slow side, a local kid once had a portion of his jacket caught in a wheel line mover. In that case, he had a slow motion view of his arm being severed at the shoulder by the chain and mover gear. Picked up the arm and rode a 4-wheeler to HQ for help.

It is always interesting to watch silverware express its emotions.

That's what I'm puzzled about, the common sense of not wearing jewelry or loose clothes notwithstanding.
Is the OP talking about diamond rings, perchance ?

GTC

Not a T&D but I do make my living on a lathe and mill. No rings, gloves, cuffs, etc.

As to rings damaging guns I personally like it when any tool picks up honest patina from use. Can't see a ring hurting the steel but it could certainly scratch a stock. Meh. Who cares.

There's a company called QALO marketing medical grade silicon rings for outdoor pursuits and they would likely work around machinery as well. They're supposed to stretch and/or break before they damage your finger. Haven't tried one myself, but it sounds interesting.

QALO wedding bands

You can even get one in camo.

Don't be so hard on 99. He's just misconstrued his Pa's infamous Cawk Ring story.

Yes, but can you get one in pumpkin spice?

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Had a friend in IT that worked at Caterpillar for many years. He told us that IT and mgmt guys had to wear ties, but it was also mandatory that the ties had been cut behind the neck and then sewn back together with only 2 threads allowed. That way if the idiot IT or management folks got their ties into the machinery it wouldn't kill 'em.

Struck me as pure stupidity...

Dang, such foolishness.

I made myself a ring in shop and about a month later it got snagged in the drill press on a bit shaving.
ZANG.
Close effing call that was, kind of bloody, and a life lesson about power tools.
And don't even THINK of asking me to wear a ring on a pendant chain around my neck! Another really bad idea.

Years ago there used to be a safety poster from the Naval Safety Center that showed a guys hand after he had all the flesh torn from his ring finger after it got caught on something. No skin, no muscle, no flesh or tendons...just bones.

Gold rings will scratch D2 all to pieces. They tear up carbide even worse.

I'll remember that,

....might make up a 24 karat scraper for putting that final edge on reamers and drill bits.

GTC

For sure!

Saw a guy smash his ring, in a machine shop. We unsmasked it enough to get off. There is a story around about finding a man strangled by his tie in a lathe. Woodward Governor used to require BOW ties for machinists. When I was about 4 I remember getting my knit sleeve in an old wood lathe I wasn't supposed to be messing with; took a long time to get unwound.

I can't wear my ring now as my fingers have arthritis and age. But I am still married without it. Been in machine shops and around construction all my life. No sense in ruining a good ring anyway. I don't think they can make a ring soft enough that I would want to wear it, even a paper ring would cut before it broke.

I took machine shop at a vocational high school, a long time ago, and one of the first things we were told was not to wear rings in the shop.
It has been a standard practice forever.

NO PLEASE DONT!

Yep effective. After seeing that before I starting putting flight gear on my wedding ring went on my dogtag chain.

I wore my ring on a neck chain as well, no ring now so no chain.

Reminded me of a man I knew jumping into a dumpster to compact it a bit. He went in too far and too fast and his ring caught and tore his finger off.

A buddy carved a wooden finger for him from a broom handle while he was at the Hospital.

Glad they were good friends and nobody was hurt when he received his new wooden finger.

30+ years ago but I still wince thinking about that day.

Mine is in the same box it came in , put there right after the wedding mass and before the reception, same as my dad's. Both of us apprenticed Toolmakers. Now I run the apprenticeship program and they are not allowed anything on their arms or hands.

The reason some machinist don't wear rings is to keep their fingers. I know one who actually cut through his wedding ring so if it ever caught it would come off. In his many years of work it came off in a machine one time. His finger was cut, but still attached.

When I started making bullet rings I discovered lots folks who lost fingers because their ring caught on something.

Yup, I like my fingers right where they are.

Good minds think alike; I did the same...

Yep, us farmers don't wear rings while running machinery.

I am sure it is because we are afraid to mar the green paint on that old 4020.

My son wears a Tungston wedding band. I suppose it might scratch some metals. But I am more concerned of the damage it might do to the digit if it gets hung up.

He is in an H-VAC apprenticeship program, I guess that beats baling hay or running a lathe as far as risk assesment goes.

Me, I have never had a ring of any kind on my hands. My wife thought I needed a band when we got married. I told her not to waste her money, as I would refuse to wear it.

She had her feelers hurt for a few months, even after I told her a few horror stories of ring induced injuries.

It has been almost 34 years, and I have never forgotten for a moment that I was married to a wonderful woman. Have never needed any ring to remind me.

I take it you've never seen industrial sized HVAC equipment like we have here at the foundry...

No, I have not.

I hope he does not take offence when I suggest he leave his ring home when he goes to work.

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I dont think he had a ring on.

dave

Hey, where did DumbassDon go?

Wearing a ring while handling his gun.

If you work with tools, it's best to take off rings

If you work with electricity or equipment you best as well

If you are active - leave the hardware at home!

I wore my ring all through the honeymoon and then took it off for good.

I told her that from then on, I would wear it around my heart.

That's where it's been ever since.

Ask the famous Tiger pitcher Mark "the Bird" Fidrych about working around PTOs with loose fitting clothing. Oh snap...that's right, you can't.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/4295722//