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This could be a shocking experience! Check with an Optometrist? I don't usually look directly at the light. I'm usually watching the "road" ahead. It is a good point. I have thought the same thing myself. If you've ever done any welding, & gotten flash burn, you'd know what real eye pain is about! Not fun. Haven't gotten that from my electropounce yet.
-------------------- Luke S. Luke Scanlan Artistry Ocala, Fl. lukescanlan@cox.net Posts: 249 | From: Ocala, Florida | Registered: Nov 2001
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Never had or heard of problems from the light...but here's some things you do need to watch for.
Wet shoes will knock you down.
Graphite on the edge of a yard stick will lite you up when you least expect it.
And never... I mean never get your belt buckle against the table while pouncing.
After a few of these experiences I went back to the pounce wheel...I love my pounce wheel...it never shocks me...it always goes where I tell it and the patterns are cleaner.
Just my opinion of course...take it for what its worth!
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-------------------- Jon Peterman 200 Summit Loop Grants Pass, OR -------------------- a.k.a. dc-62 success is in Jesus Christ Posts: 434 | From: grants pass or. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I have never made my peace with electricity. For the little pouncing I do, the pounce wheel is just fine. I wondering where the jolt goes from that belt buckle Monte.
-------------------- Wright Signs Wyandotte, Michigan Posts: 2785 | From: Wyandotte, MI USA | Registered: Jan 1999
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NEVER look directly at the spark from an elecropounce!!!!!!!!! It is an arc...same as the one produced by a welder! Ever see a welder work without a helmet? Trus, it is not as intense, BUT a full day of it and you will have sunburned eyeballs!!!!!!!!!!
You should be wearing something like "blue blocker" glasses, to cut down the intense UV rays!
PS NEVER use a metal ruler with an elecrtpounce!
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I took off all my gold and silver jewelry....but it wasn't until I thought about it later that I realized I was looking at a small version of an arc.........and NOT looking at it? It's too sparkly and pretty not to!!
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Many years ago a signie friend of mine came back from the states with one of those fancy electric pouncing tools. what he didn't realise was that he had a steel hip replacement and when he got zapped his leg flew up and nearly knocked his eye out. Posts: 965 | From: Nambour, Qld. Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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Yes there are risks with using the Electropounce, as with most driving. I've never know of anyone being injured by the occassional use of this tool. I've been using it since the late sixties. I remember buying it and bringing it into the shop where I worked and the glare from my co workers was stronger than that from the tip of the perforator. After a couple days, one by one, everyone tried it and soon they all became dependant on it. We all still kept that bump on the first digit of our middle finger, but we liked the new fast method that required no sanding. You could wear sunglasses, but I know of no eye damage from that small amount of white light. I know of no one ever hurt by the shock from this tool either. I have two prosthetic hips and have not found them affected by the occassional shock.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6736 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I also have an electro pounce machine, and one sheet metal wall, where I blow up patterns and pounce. I had it for over 20 years, can't say it has ruined my eyes, but then again I didn't use it everyday of those twenty. But yes getting zapped on it now and then will wake you up out of what ever you was thinking at the time of working with it. Even still I wouldn't want to be with out it. Everytime I hear about pounce machines, I remember the first time I got zapped! I thought it was a shocker, till the guy who I used to work for told me when he draws he has a habit of wetting his pencil with his tongue, he said he was pouncing away and drifted off thinking he had a pencil in his hand!! YIKES!! A pounce wheel is a must for your tool box, you just never know when you might need one on the job site. Also carry a piece of sand paper. What I like now is the pounce tool on my plotter, saves lot of time to let the machine pounce your patterns. I wouldn't worry to much about the machine on your eyes Adrienne, unless like they said if you work on it for a ton of hours, to me that would be...blowing up your patterns and pouncing in the dark.
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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hey Adrienne! you will just fine if you dont just stand there triping on the colors man!
-------------------- Aaron Haynes Aaron's Signs & Windows Napa Ca aa4signs@sbcglobal.net ------------ Important Rule For Life: "Look out for number one... Don't step in number two" ------------ If your never the lead dog on the sled...the scenery never changes. Posts: 241 | From: Napa Ca. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Nice to see you have gone from lurker statis to poster statis Aaron!!
I did notice difficulty focusing yesterday (with my eyes, not just in general) And they felt irritable (again, my eyes, not just me) But they say it will go away in a day or two.
And, Cisco, I was thinking the same thing in regards to those who habitually touch pencils to thier tongues!!!
Just a reminder to think about safety in all things we do.
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The first electric perforators I used were made from big ballasts with a rheostadt to adjust the rate at which you wanted to ignite the paper. I used to wonder if shops would burn down because of a pattern turning wild and calling all of his cousins that were rolled up nearby. Never did hear of a shop lost because of this, but I sure burned some patterns up.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6736 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I used to know a guy who had a shop downtown who was broken into a couple of times. He said since he connected the Electro pounce to his window screens at night he never had a break-in. Since I haven't tested this suggested tip, I cannot assume responsibility for its validity.
-------------------- Chuck Peterson Designs San Diego, CA Posts: 1053 | From: San Diego, CA USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've been using one for years and I have noticed some vision trouble -- then again my mom told me this would happen if I didn't quit ---- uh ---- oh, never mind.
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I touched my metal frame glasses once for a real shocker. We used to tell the new helpers that you had to use a metal rule so it would not burn up...good for a laugh or two and relatively harmless shock. Even a homemade one out of a 15,000 volt transformer won't kill you with a single zap. I checked the light output with a meter and at one foot it registered roughly the same as my high resolutiuon monitor. Think about that.
-------------------- Kent Smith Smith Sign Studio P.O.Box 2385, Estes Park, CO 80517-2385 kent@smithsignstudio.com Posts: 1025 | From: Estes Park, CO | Registered: Nov 1998
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