Health and Safety gone mad?
I was window shopping in IKEA today, and made an impulse purchase of quite a nice looking cordless drill/screwdriver. I do have an ancient Black and Decker cordless screwdriver, but it's not a pistol-grip, it's not a drill and it uses obsolescent VersaPak NiMH batteries which make it pointlessly heavy.
My decades-old mains hammer action power drill is still going strong and I'll continue using it for heavy-duty work, but I'm looking forward to having something cheap and cheerful with which to drill pilot holes, etc.
Anyway, the instructions say "WARNING: RISK OF TRAPPING Do not hold the front sleeve of the chuck with one hand at the same time as you open or close the jaws of the chuck with the help of the drill/driver's motor." Provided you're not an idiot and you use a low speed and torque setting, is this a real problem? Trapping what, where? Are they just covering themselves, or am I being overly blasé about a significant risk?
Of course, I'd already done that several times without incident before I bothered to read the instruction manual…
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My decades-old mains hammer action power drill is still going strong and I'll continue using it for heavy-duty work, but I'm looking forward to having something cheap and cheerful with which to drill pilot holes, etc.
Anyway, the instructions say "WARNING: RISK OF TRAPPING Do not hold the front sleeve of the chuck with one hand at the same time as you open or close the jaws of the chuck with the help of the drill/driver's motor." Provided you're not an idiot and you use a low speed and torque setting, is this a real problem? Trapping what, where? Are they just covering themselves, or am I being overly blasé about a significant risk?
Of course, I'd already done that several times without incident before I bothered to read the instruction manual…
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