I agree with you completely. I had a piece of cast iron flywheel bounce past my feet at a high rate of speed at the drag strip years ago..... Makes you rethink what you build. I haven't bought a stock clutch or used a factory flywheel since and that was 40 years ago. Its not safe for anybody under any circumstances.
And no, I wasn't trying to make lite of the circumstances you were addressing.
I like my balls and would like to keep all three of them....
You made a good point, but I just had to be the "asshole" for our new friend and drive home the point a little harder.
I spend my days looking at things and watching people do stuff that keeps me up at night.
Usually Sunday when I have to return to work in the morning and Monday night as I digest the days events.
Some people think safety is strictly a personal matter, but it's not.
We have to consider what we do and even the advice we give.
We even need to think about the results of inaction if we let bad things happen to people who we could have helped.
Even if it is not appreciated we should do the right thing.
Everyday I fill in my workplace safety slip.
Its a stupid paper exercise written by people trying to push all the responsibility on me and others with stupid questions about vague tasks.
But on the first line of every new page I always write " Do The Right Thing " before my set of daily work instructions.
Its not there because I am a fool that does not understand right from wrong.
I write it as a reminder to myself to look around and right any wrongs before bad things happen.
Have you ever known or suspected that something you said F-It about and walked away from may have contributed to a death?
Imagine how that feels?
Even if it turns out to have been so small it would not have made a difference you will remember walking away and have to live with that shame.
