Jeff Gorman wrote:
> "Gerald Ross" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Al Holstein wrote:
>>> I was just rounding the edges of end grain on a
>>> project, when I saw a few sparks coming off of the
>>> router blade.
>
>>> Has any one else had a similiar experience?
>
>> This happens when you are splitting wood with an
>> axe--if
>> you do it after sundown when you can see them.
>
> Would these be electrical flashes I wonder?
>
> Static electricity and all that?
>
> Jeff
Maybe. Or embedded metal staples, barbed wire from
eons ago, etc..
"Gerald Ross" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Al Holstein wrote:
>> I was just rounding the edges of end grain on a project, when I saw a
>> few sparks coming off of the router blade.
>> Has any one else had a similiar experience?
> This happens when you are splitting wood with an axe--if you do it after
> sundown when you can see them.
Would these be electrical flashes I wonder?
Static electricity and all that?
Jeff
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Thu, Dec 13, 2007, 8:40am (EST+5) [email protected] (Jeff=A0Gorman)
doth queryeth:
Would these be electrical flashes I wonder?
Static electricity and all that?
Not electrical in my case, and I'd been routing for a few seconds,
so seriously doubt static 'lectricity. Definitely saw the spark fly
from the bit. However, it is possible that I was using a HSS bit, not
carbide tipped, at the time. I only used HSS bits for a short period of
time and now use only cabide tipped. Only had that happen the one time
- that I know of.
JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso
On Dec 13, 11:35 am, [email protected] (J T) wrote:
> Thu, Dec 13, 2007, 8:40am (EST+5) [email protected] (Jeff Gorman)
> doth queryeth:
> Would these be electrical flashes I wonder?
> Static electricity and all that?
>
> Not electrical in my case, and I'd been routing for a few seconds,
> so seriously doubt static 'lectricity. Definitely saw the spark fly
> from the bit. However, it is possible that I was using a HSS bit, not
> carbide tipped, at the time. I only used HSS bits for a short period of
> time and now use only cabide tipped. Only had that happen the one time
> - that I know of.
>
> JOAT
> I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
> them.
> - Picasso
I was a using carbide tipped bit when I saw it. It was like described
as a spark for a flint.
Thanks to everyone for their responses.
Al
Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 7:27pm (EST-3) [email protected] (Al=A0Holstein) doth
query:
<snip> Has any one else had a similiar experience?
Yep. But from homemade wood not imported. Apparently from hard
wood, routing too fast, and applying too much pressure. Been quite
while,don't recall what type of wood.
JOAT
I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
- Picasso
Gerald Ross wrote:
> Al Holstein wrote:
>> I was just rounding the edges of end grain on a project, when I saw a
>> few sparks coming off of the router blade. The wood is a tropical
>> wood like teak. I had sanded the edge before I started routering. So
>> it could be coming from a trace of sand or the wood.
>>
>> Has any one else had a similiar experience?
> This happens when you are splitting wood with an axe--if you do it after
> sundown when you can see them.
>
You can get this effect from breaking a Wintergreen Certs in half. It's
a release of chemical bond energy in the form of light.
"Al Holstein" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I was just rounding the edges of end grain on a project, when I saw a
> few sparks coming off of the router blade. The wood is a tropical
> wood like teak. I had sanded the edge before I started routering. So
> it could be coming from a trace of sand or the wood.
>
> Has any one else had a similiar experience?
Got that once routing mdf. God only knows what's in that stuff.
jc
Al Holstein wrote:
> I was just rounding the edges of end grain on a project, when I saw a
> few sparks coming off of the router blade. The wood is a tropical
> wood like teak. I had sanded the edge before I started routering. So
> it could be coming from a trace of sand or the wood.
>
> Has any one else had a similiar experience?
This happens when you are splitting wood with an axe--if you do it
after sundown when you can see them.
--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
To err is human. To blame someone else
is politics.
Jeff Gorman wrote:
> "Gerald Ross" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Al Holstein wrote:
>>> I was just rounding the edges of end grain on a project, when I saw a
>>> few sparks coming off of the router blade.
>
>>> Has any one else had a similiar experience?
>
>> This happens when you are splitting wood with an axe--if you do it after
>> sundown when you can see them.
>
> Would these be electrical flashes I wonder?
>
> Static electricity and all that?
>
> Jeff
>
I doubt it. Electrical sparks generally go from one object to another.
These just fly out like a spark from a flint.
--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
To err is human. To blame someone else
is politics.