The Eye Protection Trick Safety Glasses Companies Hate! Safety Squints In Test!
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2023
- 🚫WARNING: This is a JOKE! NEVER rely on 'safety squints' alone. Proper safety gear, like safety glasses, is essential.🚫 In this video, we'll see if 'safety squints' can hold up against traditional safety glasses. We're putting them to the test with angle grinder sparks, shards of glass, and fragments from a bearing, all using our 150-ton hydraulic press! Let's see what happens!
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Calling a bunch of glass shards in an eyeball "sub-optimal" was such an understatement that it made me laugh out loud!
Seems less sub-optimal and more subcutaneous... D:
It made me... roll my eyes.😎
I heard “shit to the eyes” 😂
Peak Finnish humor
The accent makes it even funnier
As a rule, I always observe my press from three inches away when testing parts to failure.
It's the only way to be sure!
Duh. If not, you're doing it wrong.
Who would have known? Safety glasses are apparently safer than no safety glasses.
The moral of the story - don't put your face next to exploding objects.
nice job propagating big safety glasses propaganda
Years ago, I was working in a laser lab with a laser that was invisible to the human eye. The laser safety people gave us new safety goggles that looked pretty nice. Just for fun, I got out a detector and tried to measure how much of the laser light passed through. The lenses themselves were great, but the frames and side-shields were useless and didn't block the invisible beam at all. I passed the word back, and ended up covering the sides with several layers of thick black tape as a temporary measure until we got new safety goggles.
A monument to the idea of "Trust but verify."
The first rule of shop safety is to have fun!
Fun first
Safety second
Think third
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I agree. Fun is important. Thats why safety is important. Losing an eye makes for a less fun experience.
The eye popping out with the air pressure was hilarious 😂😂😂
The Schloop sound 😂
I thought he was just going to rinse them. lol
@@FixingWithFriendsSo did he, I think 😅 6:51
and a bit close to real life unfortunately 🤮
It’s all about the incredible strength of the cross weaved eye lashes created by a textbook safety squint. Some people think it’s just as simple as squinting but it takes a lot of practice and guidance to master a true safety squint. With out eye lash substitutes I have to call this test invalid. 😂
I know this is a joke, but professionally I feel the need to remind you that your eyelids can only stop debris that has very little force behind it and eyelashes do nothing to help
@@thespudlord686 are you a professional commentor? Or is your profession eye safety maybe? I’m confused?
@@CognitiveBionicshe's working for big safety glasses
This makes a good case for a face shield plus safety glasses when grinding and similar activities
I'm a construction worker in USA you now have to wear a face shield and glasses when grinding and on some jobs when cutting wood as well. I don't mind though I love my eye 😊
@@doodoomode7370 Even if not required, that's the way to go. Protect your eyes and the rest of your face.
@@doodoomode7370Your eye?! You’ve only got one left!?!?!
@@nasonguy oops left off an 's sorry to worry you I still have both
Face shield plus safety goggles.
Safety squints melon is already angry because of what youre planning on doing to him lol
I think he is frustrated because he couldn't find his safety glasses :D
He actually looks like he's stoned out of his gourd- er... Melon.😅
Workmate managed to get a piece of metal in his eye (using a rotary tool, "pirra" in Finnish) even when he was using safety glasses like those in the beginning... I had to take him to emergency... Now he wears same kind of glasses but with a thing that goes around the eyes (like a gasket of sorts?) and the glasses sit against your skin, plus a face shield.
yep scupamask type of glasses are must when doing something like that. Even grinder is pushing it with those regular ones.
@@HydraulicPressChannel Yea, the glasses he uses are like skiing goggles. Dude is a bit of a hazard, if someone can hurt themselves doing something, I bet he's the first one to do so! :D
A co-worker of mine who was wearing safety glasses and a face shield, was caught when he looked up from the work, without stopping the grinder. He opened a direct path from the workpiece to his eye and caught a sliver. Barriers only work when they are between your eyes and the work piece, so you must watch what you are doing.
I had shit flying into my eyes even with that kind of goggles, face shield is my preferred method of protection.
@@Ran-tan-tan As much as I advocate for safety, I'd have to tell you Do as I say, not as I do
It's a miracle I haven't lost a finger....
My main takeaway from this video is don’t clean your eyes out with compressed air 😂
Unless you are actually trying to clean your eyes ... out. :P
That in itself sounds like a bad idea 😬
I prefer a mix of safety glasses and safety squints used together.
Squinting is a good addition to most eye safety measures. Light... chemicals... temperature... Fast moving objects.... dust... fastmoving objects that are on fire...
To fully test the safety squints you should add lashes.
You're right, a few tiny hairs might be all it needs to demonstrate its ability to stop shrapnel. A critical difference that must be investigated!
As a teenager I assumed that regular eye glasses protect from grinding sparks. That proved to be wrong. It left a permanent mark in the eye. And then I've had proper safety glasses on every single time when grinding.
It depends on the glasses. If the lenses are big enough and made from the right material, they can work as well as typical shop safety glasses, and are sometimes sold with ANSI ratings. The ones I use in my shop also have side shields, though.
@@kmaglion The point at the side shields. I was grinding a car engine mount, the sparks bounced into all directions and got in from the side.
OSHA should seriously use this as a safety training tool. Perfectly illustrates the importance of protecting your eyes.
I laughed so hard at the safety squints! Well done!
I've been subbed to this channel for a long time. From it, I've learned one thing -- that our man's favorite word in English is "shit".
Doctor Lauri, world class Opthamologist!
Definitely a true doctor because he avoided giving any definite declarations. You get "sub-optimal" at best.
I would like to air a concern...
I am a regular squinter and regret every time ...
When sparks are flying or sawdust is coming from above, the only thing that really helps is squint + safety glasses.
would love to see you make a shrapnel launcher canon 5000000 with compressed air to get aim-able results to go directly for the eyes for maximum carnage.
a steel bb topped .22 air rifle pellet launched at Mach Jesus with a Ramset into a big ball bearing might just give repeatable results.
3:26 I had a tiny metal sliver in my left eye when I was stationed at Ft. Ord, CA. I was 21 at the time. It was very painful. Even after the eye doctor got it out, I still had to go back a couple of times to get the tiny rust ring removed. It was a painful process, but I definitely learned to protect my eyes. And by the way, I have been wearing glasses since I was 6 years old.
My old man told me about how back around 1950 he had a part time night-shift job in a factory and had to do something involving grinding where a metal shard flew into his eye. Rushed to the town doctor's home and he came down into the kitchen with just a single lightbulb hanging overhead and took out a scalpel. Held m y dad's eye open and said 'whatever you do, don't move' and went in with the scalpel and flicked out the metal. However my dad was traumatized by that experience of watching that scalpel come towards his eye and became a fierce advocate for safety squints. Because, you know, he was cheap and the glasses cost extra.
Clearly both cases should have simply used compressed air like the video. Once they eyeball is popped out, just rinse it off and stick it back in, good as new.
I had a chunk of metal in my eye for almost a month. Went to hospital right away but they could not find anything. Went to see my doctor and same , went to see eye specialist same. Every morning I woke up to my eye weeping rust and crusted over. I got off work one day and was in complete agony. Was leaning on my kitchen counter and looked over to this fridge magnet and had an epiphany. I could feel the metal pull on my eyelid as it slid out. It was a teardrop shaped piece of slag with a sharp hook on the end. I heard the satisfying ping as it hit the magnet. Then a river of rusty puss and a feeling of complete relief.
@@scotttod6954 I know what you mean. At least my doctors back then were on top of their game.
@@biohazard20161 ya they wanted to remove my eye to check the socket but that was a last resort effort and they were still hoping my eye would flush it out naturally. What I did was risky but I was sick of the pain and did not like the idea of them pulling my eyeball out of my head to have a look see.
As someone who has a 30 hour osha certification, i approve this test
If grinding or doing woodworking I wear safety glasses PLUS a full-face safety shield.
The shield I wear when sanding or generating dust particles has filters and positive airflow from battery-powered fan.
If you want to revisit this I would like to see how various eyeglasses/sunglasses protect, many folks rely a bit too heavily on those. +1 for eyelashes as well, would be surprising to see if fake lashes could stop any of the debris.
Safety squints don't work without eyelashes. The hairs make a mesh guard
And having mom on speed dial
Yeah, when I use my safety squint I squint more too and can usually keeps the sparks outa my eyes and I completely agree with the eye lash guard that melon never grinded a day in his life
*PSA FOR EVERYONE*
Make sure you wear your safety squints when watching the Hydraulic Press Channel.... I never leave home without them. 😁👍
Nice demonstration 👍Safety glasses have definitely saved my eyes from spray from angle grinders many times when you're trying to get to a spot in a difficult position and trying to see what you're doing at the same time.
The problem I see with "safety squints" is that you can't see what you're doing to begin with. 😂
I died for 5 minutes when big bearing exploded! Absolute comedy gold.
OSHA approved safety squint requires one eye be completely closed
Hahahaha, the squints are expertly crafted! Any chance you can you test AvE’s mini pencil topper billet axe and hammer?
You can thank Hanna for the craftmanship :D
You mean Hannalangelo?
Squinting helps if you have to wear regular glasses. I can tell you from experience, wearing safety glasses over my normal ones--even if they're meant for it--works like crap. The safety glasses push my prescription glasses out of place and everything goes blurry. So, if you squint wearing regular glasses, everything coming directly at your eyes is stopped by the glasses, and that's most of what would've gotten past your squinted eyelids. Stuff coming around from the sides will almost always hit your eyelids, making it very rare to take a hit to the eyeball while squinting with regular glasses on.
Side note, I want to see and hear more of that new assistant of yours! She's adorable. Her voice as well as her face.
Mike Wazowski you forgot to file your paperwork! 😂
@3:45 You are 100% Correct and your experiments proves it.. Eye Protection is Very Important!!! I coulnted around 14-15 + eye hits...
3:17 That spark bouncing off the back of the safety squint and back into the eye multiple times is quite eye opening. I didn't expect to see that.
Both the title of this video, and your commentary, are comedy gold! Well played
"there is clearly some sh*t on the eye..." - i just laughed so hard, i went back to watch it again.
Great metod to test the safety equip. 👍
"People's choice, Safety Squint" I was not prepared to laugh so hard
Today I learned that if I get glass shards in my eye it is suboptimal to use compressed air to remove them.
Excellent slow motion footage, both entertaining and educational
That first grinder... I know that feeling! See how even with the safety glasses there were dust that snuck in behind the glasses... Man that is so nasty! It's many many years since I had it happen to me, but I can still feel it like it was yesterday. Never again if I can help it.
Some guys I worked with did a lot of welding and grinding and they had magnets they used to pick out as much metal dust as possible when that happened. My father told me about workers he'd known that drilled holes for blasting rock using chisels and sledges. First of all it takes steady hands to reliably hit the chisel as three men swing sledges and one sit on the ground holding the kisel in place. A missed swing and odds are a hand is turned into meat mush. But there were also stone splinters flying when starting a new hole, and occasionally a chisel would chip and metal shards could get in your eyes. These guys also had magnets to try to get the metal out of the eyes, but they also had pins and tweezers made of oak to pick the stone splinters out of the eyes. Oak was used as it had higher friction and didn't slip as easily when you are trying to pull a stone fragment out of an eye...
People sometimes makes fun of OSHA or complain about "stupid regulations". I'm not claiming there aren't some rules and regulations that can be overbearing, but they exist for a reason. If you are going to ignore some safety rule then you first better understand the risks.
"I'll just look away" So they can then cut off their hands instead?
It's kind of sad, the narrative and the perception they are using 'safety equipment' is what some people oppose more than the actual inconvenience of wearing it.
But... as you say, sometimes that safety equipment is an even bigger danger. If your gloves are so bulky you can't hold the tool... You are better off with thinner gloves.
@@FixingWithFriends My father were in the "Safety gear just get in the way" camp. He also believed that safety gear could make the users sloppy, causing accidents that would have been avoided if the users weren't given a false feeling of safety. He was also a strong proponent for Darwinism. He often said that the faster stupidity was punished the faster people either learned or removed themselves from the genepool.
I inherited four or five angle grinders after him. None of them has the guard intended to protect you from an exploding disk. He didn't even kept them in a box, just threw them away. I have used them, but every time I'm extremely careful, and still scared of them as they are an accident waiting to happen.
And I object to his idea of this making them safer as you have to pau attention when using them. Everyone will have a cutting disk explode sooner or later if you use a angle grinder. It's a question of skill or paying attention. **It Will Happen!**
So removing the guard is just stupid.
Now having said all that he still had all limbs intact when he died of age related diseases.
But yea, there was a generational gap between us in how we viewed safety equipment.
@@blahorgaslisk7763 I've hard time to see how removing angle grinder's guard make people less sloppy when exploding disk take out a finger.
@@XtreeM_FaiL And I agree with you. I don't like it, but my father thought any kind of safety device on a tool made people sloppy. I avoid using the old angle grinders he left behind whenever I can, but occasionally it's convenient to have a few preloaded with different wheels. I try to keep it to things like flapwheels and thick grinding wheels that won't explode as often as cutoff wheels, but it's still scary.
I dont know if this was ever said before but if a spark gets in an eye, it can be so hot it essentially cauterises the eye upon impact and stays in place on the surface. It'll start hurting when the metal eventually rusts away in your eye if it doesnt get washed out. I only learned this when I went to an eye doctor days after doing some grinding. The eye doctors can pull these shavings of metal out of eyes with no pain. The metal appeared as little rust rings by the time they found them in my eyes.👍
Of course not all sparks can be hot enough. Those would hit the eye and pain will immediately be felt🤷♂️
Snap, those eyes of the squinting melon are really creepy.
It really looks like both eyes are looking at the same spot like a foot and a half in front of it.
Now do steel-tip shoe tests. (use candy for the test foot haha it really makes no difference. Also, you only really need the front end of the shoe for the test.)
This a great demonstration why double eye protection is a good thing. Highest safety standards companies I worked for required us to wear safety glasses and transparent face shields together when doing work endangering the eyes.
Interested to see construction safety equipment vs military type stuff. Hard hat vs ballistic helmet. Safety glasses vs fragmentation glasses, etc. Though, I’m not sure how accessible that is in Finland.
@6:50 I think this experiment proves that its better to use Laboratory goggles for experiments like these, and not just sunglasses 😛 Laboratory Goggles protect the eyes from all sides...
I’ve never laughed so hard at one of your videos, thank you !
❤you guys n everything you do for us!!
Judgemental Safety Squints Watermelon doesn't exist he can't hurt you!
1:16 😅🤣
My brother wore safety glasses whilst grinding some steel, a bit still went into his eye and an eye specialist didn't remove all of it (he thought he had) now my brother has permanent eye damage to that eye - has a floating scar all the time blocking his vision, he says it is worst at night so tries not to drive cars at night. So yeah, accidents DO happen even if you are using decent safety equipment!
8:01 The eye juice spraying out, lol
Chris from AvE has a lot to answer for with so many of his sayings.
Is Ave name Dave?
@@Bibibosh No. In a few of his (now deleted) very early videos you saw his face and introduced himself as Chris.
I love these silly videos where we are totally testing things and not at all being silly.
I love the title of the video. It is so cleverly poking fun at tabloid type clickbait-y "advertorial" article names....
It tickles my Elmo.
Theres a second danger especially if you're grinding a lot if you where a hat the metal shards could collect on your hat and as you take it off to wipe the sweat a big ol ploom of metal dust with bits of silica will rain down over your face
Lol "Safety Screens" looked like nothing more than puffy eyelids squinting, to try and keep the schrapnel from getting in, to no avail! 🤷🤦😆😂🤣
Just an observation, noticed there wasn't any eyelids on the one with glasses. I bet if that one had eye lids, it would have gotten significantly less debris.
At my job years ago, we wanted to see how strong Polycarbonate safety glasses were. I took a pair of them, put them on an anvil and hit them as hard as I could with a 4 lb sledge hammer w/18 inch handle. The glasses shot across the shop and the only damage was a 1/2 inch white line on site of impact. We decided they are worthy. Oh we also shot them with a Crossman 760 Poweremaster, at point blank, ours was a .177 caliber @ 760ft/sec. It just left a small o hazy spot.
People say I'm crazy for wearing ski goggles every where I go, but look who's laughing now! Oh you can't see that's right.
"Saftey Squints!" This whole video is HILARIOUS hahah ty!
@6:25 Good luck getting any of that glas out of your eye.... OUCH!!!!
Maybe you should test full face shields next to see if they can keep the melons safe. Where i work they are really pushing for full face shields to do anything so I'm curious to see if they're actually any better
When your doctor says "clearly there is some shit in the eye" you know your in good hands
I use the combination method. Safety glasses, and then safety squints under that just in case the sparks shoot around the safety glasses.
The big takeaway is saftysquints are surprisingly better then I would have though.
I'd love to see a comparison using PAPR hoods or Safety rated face shields on the stunt melons.
I actually had a little accident where I was grinding some steel and something ricoched off of me and went right through the gap between my skin and glasses direktly into my eye. It was nothing in the end but I was pretty damn suprised and kinda pissed
Chaos is like life, it will find a way.
This is by far the funniest video you have ever made, I'm dying hahahaha
I think this demonstrates that safety glasses do not make you bulletproof lol
Such a funny idea. Love the video
I would love to see the SLO-MO guys collab with you guys.
Really helpful video! Next time I'm crushing ball bearings one inch away from my face, I'll definitely wear the safety glasses!
The baked watermelon looked liked me watching this video. 👁👄👁
The ball bearing explosion was truly horrifying.
Such a good title for this video 🤣🤣
Aerospace fabricator here. The squint is quite effective while using glasses.
Damn, love this curious face of the watermelon with glasses 😀
epic video, this is the real science we need
When I'm crushing ball bearings in my hydraulic press at home, I always sit 3cm away from the work piece with no safety glasses. This was a real eye-opener (pun intended)
Remember if you've ever done metal working you have to tell the nice nurses that before you get an MRI so they can check you out before you get under that gargantuan magnet and a sliver of metal rips through your eye... O.o
That is why I always use the safety squint even with proper safety glasses.
That spinning piece at 9:05 is straight out of 2001 A Space Odyssey
Epic, cant wait to show my kids this ❤
We use really strong magnets to pull steel fragments out of eyes (Emergency Room).
This is the science we need!
I always try to protect my eyes, whether it be from metal shavings etc or the sun. I'm 41 and still have 20/20 vision
I know they were just candy eyes but that still hurt to watch LOL. Still best safety video EVER LOL.
There was a lot of shrapnel that got on the eyes with safety glasses. I want to see "safety glasses vs safety goggles".
I blinked. My eyes are okay, but my melon exploded.
..."THANKS FOR ANOTHER!"...
...and thank you for the post, always absolutely appreciated.
(...just walk it off...,.)
Love the safety squints melon guy lol
rebar sticking through eye socket "that is not optimal"
Beautiful slowmo Mellon's
I don't take off my safety glasses when I'm working because they're prescription and I can't see without them anyway. But what I mostly learned today was not to stick my unprotected face right up to metal and glass items that are likely to explode, and not to stick my face directly in the spark shower of a grinder for several seconds.
At work I call the glasses safety squints. So you actually have real eye protection while still honoring the meme lol
Great idea!
I'd say this is a good argument for robotic controls. You're in the next room while stuff happens that you see on a monitor and keep your eyes in your head.
"It is good _eye_ -dea to wear safety glases"
Without the good science experiments, how else would we know?
Its so derpy I can't stop laughing.