v7guy wrote:I see a lot of PPE talk here. It should be noted that it's a bad idea to be wearing gloves around anything that is spinning. Occasionally I'll wear gloves with my 4.5" grinders, but I try to avoid it. I never wear gloves with my drill press, drills or the lathe. If that spinning piece grabs a glove it can easily pull in your whole hand. I'd rather slice my hand open or lose a finger as opposed to destroying my entire hand. Alot of these tools can seriously hurt you, respect them.
To be honest, I heard this in wood shop, and I believe it's primarily for wood tools with big teeth. I've run an angle grinder into the side of my hand (rather, it hit something, caught, and kicked into my hand) without gloves, and had 2 internal and 7 external stitches from it. I can't count the number of times my gloves have taken an angle grinder hit for me, and never got sucked in. I've ruined 2 pair of gloves on my porta-band, by having a piece slip (cutting/notching tube at odd angles on it, like I shouldn't do), and boom, hand into blade, and hand out of blade as soon as I pulled it back. No glove sucking me in or anything, small scratch on me, long cut through glove.
Now, lathes, yes, I don't wear gloves. I do wear gloves with drill and drill press, because I clamp or vice things down, and don't get my hands on anything but the oiler and handles.
I do, however, wear gloves that fit me. I could see it being a problem with an angle grinder or whatever if you're wearing the cheap cloth-top gloves they sell at HF, a size or 2 too big, but I don't. There's no loose flap of glove material to get sucked into anything, if you wear the right sized gloves. I also wear the kind of gloves that slip-on and just have either nothing or elastic holding them on, so if they do get sucked into something, it's more likely that the glove will come off, rather than something that's firmly attached to your wrist.
Mike