What Are Safety Glasses?

Safety glasses are usually made with shatter-resistant plastic lenses to protect the eye from flying debris. Although safety lenses may be constructed from a variety of materials of various impact resistance, certain standards suggest that they maintain a minimum 1 millimeter thickness at the thinnest point, regardless of material. Safety glasses can vary in the level of protection they provide. For example, those used in medicine may be expected to protect against blood splatter while safety glasses in a factory might have stronger lenses and a stronger frame with additional shields at the temples to protect from sawdust, flying wood, or metal. The lenses of safety glasses can also be shaped for correction.


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What Is A Drill/Drill Motor?

A drill or drill motor is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for drilling holes in various materials or fastening various materials together with the use of fasteners. The attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of the drill and rotated while pressed against the target material. The tip, and sometimes edges, of the cutting tool does the work of cutting into the target material. This may be slicing off thin shavings (twist drills or auger bits), grinding off small particles (oil drilling), crushing and removing pieces of the workpiece (SDS masonry drill), countersinking, counterboring, or other operations.
Drills are commonly used in woodworking, metalworking, construction and do-it-yourself projects. Specially designed drills are also used in medicine, space missions and other applications. Drills are available with a wide variety of performance characteristics, such as power and capacity.

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What Steel Is Made Of?

Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten.[1] Carbon and other elements act as a hardening agent, preventing dislocations in the iron atom crystal lattice from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of alloying elements and the form of their presence in the steel (solute elements, precipitated phase) controls qualities such as the hardness, ductility, and tensile strength of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content can be made harder and stronger than iron, but such steel is also less ductile than iron.
Alloys with a higher than 2.1% carbon content are known as cast iron because of their lower melting point and good castability.[1] Steel is also distinguishable from wrought iron, which can contain a small amount of carbon, but it is included in the form of slag inclusions. Two distinguishing factors are steel's increased rust resistance and better weldability.
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What is Welding?

Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material (the weld pool) that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes used in conjunction with heat, or by itself, to produce the weld. This is in contrast with soldering and brazing, which involve melting a lower-melting-point material between the workpieces to form a bond between them, without melting the workpieces.

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Protecting Your Home From Potential Burglaries

At Home You Should:
Have your key ready before you get to the front door.
Make sure your entrance area is well lighted.
If you live in an apartment don't be polite and hold the lobby door open for a stranger who has been waiting.
List only your last name and first initial in your mailbox.
Don't buzz someone inside unless you know them.
If a stranger wants to use your phone for any kind of call from business to emergency ........ keep him out and you make the call for them! Any problems or in doubt? Call the police!
If you arrive home and find your door open DO NOT GO INSIDE call the police from a pay phone or neighbors house and ask them to meet you.
Don't get on the elevator with a stranger if your own good judgment warns you against it -- need an excuse to avoid embarrassment say something like; "Oh I forgot my mail

Safety Tips For You, Your Family and Your Home Especially During The Holidays

In these days and times, you have to be extra careful of burgulars and con artist. Here are some tips on keeping you and your family safe, especially during the holiday season:

1 When coming into your home, have your keys ready! Do not go looking and fumbling around for your keys when your at your property. This may lead to a push in.

2.If possible,have motion security lights in the front and back of house. (Especially the front so you can see what your doing as well as who and what is in your immediate area/surroundings.)

3. If someone rings your bell,check to see who or what is at your door. (go to the window first or look through your door's peep hole to see who is at your door first before inquiring/allowing entry.)

4. Always ask service companies who are at your door to show you their ID's before you let them in. (example: Con Ed, Police Officer, or any other contractors(private and public)/city worker to show ID. There are people out here who is out to do harm/scam us.Especially people who say they're from the census bureau and those saying they can lower you electric bill.)

5, Check all locks on window guards, gates, cellar doors, roof hatches, etc to make sure they are working properly and are secure.If your having problems, call a ironworker/welder to fix any problems that you feel are needed.

6 If you are going away on a trip, make sure to have some one pick up your mail so that potential
burglars will not know you are away from your home or try to perform identity thef on you.

7 If possible,put a timer system on your lights when your going on vacation or just away for a long period of time so that it would appear that someone is home.

Hopefully this would keep you and your family safe and aware.

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Securing Your Tools In Your Backyard

If you keep tools in the backyard, make sure you put them away so that the potential criminals can't use them to gain access to your home or anyone else.

Securing Your Backyard Electrical Outlets

If there are electrical outlets exposed in the backyard, make sure you have a cut off switch because potential criminals can use their power tools to gain access to your property.

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Home Tips Reminder

Most burgulars strike between the times 10am to 3pm during business hours. We suggest that you have a timer for your lights, radio, television and/or anything that make noise.



Do not put your spare key(s) under your mat outside your home and don't put them in the mailbox. Those are the first two places burgulars check.

Home Safety Tips When On Vacation

We all need some rest and relaxation once in a while. I know I do. So, here are some tips on keeping you and your family belongings safe.

If you have a security system, make sure you turn it on before going on your trip. Some people have automatic timers for lighting or an alarm clock. Set them for the same time like any ordinary day. You should turn the phone down because that is a green light for burgulars.

If possible, consult with a family member/friend/neighbor on having them stop by your home periodically so that would deter burgulars. Try to have them do the same routines as if they were you such as opening and shutting drapes or your lighting patterns especially because that a green light also for burgulars.You just want to give your home that "occupied" look to keep burgulars away.

Before you go on your trip, postpone all deliveries to your home such as mail, newspapers, etc. Burgulars pay attention to those patterns. Have someone pick up whatever is necessary or have the company hold your item(s) until you come home.

Also, if you can go to your local police dept. to make arrangements for them to check on your home periodically (If possible).

These are the tips I use when I'm on vacation. I hope this can assist you and your family.