Have you noticed that those who make and handle fine work don't wear rings that might mar it!

Neither my late dad nor the men who worked in his shop wore rings.

Yet some who handle firearms do!

More importanly,it saves you losing a finger or worse.I had a burr come up while working my mill table that caught under my ring;I jerked back before I was pulled into the press,it broke before I came in contact.Some blood but a damn good lesson.

When I was running machine tools, I never wore rings, watches, bracelets, necklaces, neckties, gloves, or long sleeve shirts.

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Originally posted by drewhenrytnt:
When I was running machine tools, I never wore rings, watches, bracelets, necklaces, neckties, gloves, or long sleeve shirts.

+1! The best advice for anyone operating machine tools!

It was actually a shop rule not to wear them. You got caught by safety or management and your ass was in a sling.

If you got caught by a machine, your ass was hamburger. Either the machine would pull you into it and kill you, or just rip off your hand or arm.

You want to get run-off, wear a ring outside the accommodation on an offshore rig.

In my early machine shop learning days in high school they were very strict about such things. I still don't wear rings anywhere.

More importantly.....

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Growing up, spent a lot of time in my grandfather's mechanic's shop, a gunsmith's shop and my father's shop. None of them wore rings and I was taught not to as well. Well, I've been married for 34 years and never wore a ring, even though I've been a lawyer for nearly 30 years. Still have all my digits.

I worked in a steel mill eons ago and you were forbidden from wearing rings due to safety issues. Hard for your newlywed spouse to understand, until someone was electrocuted because of a wedding ring.

As a diemaker, I stopped wearing a wedding ring about a week after the wedding. One of my fellow workers told me a story of a guy getting his wedding band caught, somehow, in a running lathe. It stripped the finger off the bone. Whether it's true or not, it freaked me out so much that I still don't wear a ring, after being out of diemaking for many years.

Mike

Your friend wasn't lying neazor......I've seen ring finger avulsions a few times over the years as a hand surgeon. Basically unsalvageable.

I've known a few people who lost fingers because of their wedding rings.

One left his ring and a finger behind when it caught something around the door of an aircraft he was parachuting from.

Another. lost his ring and all the flesh from a finger while jumping down an obstacle in an obstacle course. His ring had caught a nail that was sticking up. The medics said his finger had become "de-gloved".

And one more was a workman who was lowering himself from the ceiling hatch to an attic crawlspace. He came down but his ring caught something and remained on top of the access hatch a few feet over his head. The finger bone was there but the meat was all gone, de-gloved.

I also worked with a mechanic who had a very close call. He was tightening a battery cable to the positive terminal of a battery using a crescent wrench. He was being very careful to keep the wrench from touching any metal and grounding out. But he forgot about his ring. The wrench was held against his ring and he put the back of his hand against the frame of the car. There was a big spark and he leaped back from the car with a howl. He danced around trying to get the ring off but it kept burning the fingers of his other hand. Finally, when he did get it off, you could see a nice ring of seared flesh where the ring had been. It eventually healed. He was left with a scar but you couldn't see it because he would wear the ring over it.

Had a high school buddy that we coulda called nine-finger Mick, for the same reason as in Grenadier's 3rd. example.
Lot of amps stored in a car battery!