True for sure. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: fonman4277@comcast.net 
  To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans ; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:48 PM
  Subject: Re: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!

  Actually Scott, eye glasses dont offer adequate protection. In both my cases, I was wearing regular eye glasses and the metal particles came in from the side. I now wear full coverage safety goggles.   Jeff

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  ----- Reply message -----
  From: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
  Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 16:09
  Subject: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!
  To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>

  wow...........thanks for telling this story.
  One would never think that could happen...just looking at a fresh weld.

  one good thing about eyeballs needing glasses the older one gets..
  it's automatic eye protection !
  Scott
  www.turbovans.com

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "pat" <psdooley@VERIZON.NET>
  To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
  Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 11:17 AM
  Subject: Re: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!

  > Yeah, they used a needle on my eye to flick a piece out.
  > The ER doctor said I might get a rust stain but it didn't happen.
  > I was welding a stainless header.  Got done and went to inspect my work,
  > got
  > real close to the welded area, oblivious to the popping noises of hot
  > metal
  > flaking off around the heated area.
  > One little flake hit the brown part of my eye and fused there.  No amount
  > of
  > flushing would get it out.
  >
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
  > Mike
  > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 11:56 AM
  > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
  > Subject: Re: PSA- wear safety glasses when working with springs!
  >
  > I once was blowing some metal shavings off of a workbench, and a piece
  > went
  > into my eye.  The piece was gone by the time I got to the doctor, but it
  > left a painful scratch on the cornea, as well as a rust ring where it had
  > been. They used a dremel to buff out the rust ring!  Scary.....
  >
  > Mike B.
  >
  > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
  >
  > J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
  >
  >>And when using a Dremel! Twice, almost a year to the day apart, grinding
  > with my Dremel on my Vanagon put me at the eye doctors to get a small
  > metal
  > fragment removed from my eye. The second time I DID have safety glasses,
  > but
  > had pulled them down to get a better look at what I was working on-then
  > didn't pull them back up-big mistake ( I should mention that I wear
  > regular
  > eyeglasses and I thought they offered enough protection-they don't!).
  > Recently on the show "American Restorations" there was a shot of the shop
  > owners 17 year old son grinding away on a piece of metal with NO safety
  > glasses on. A few minutes later there is a shot of him, clipboard in hand,
  > writing up an estimate for a customer and he IS wearing safety glasses!
  > Guess there is more of a chance of that ball point pen flying out of his
  > hand and hitting him in the eye than metal fragments from an angle
  > grinder.
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >>Jeff Stewart
  >>