My recollection is that damage persisted for a few days, then recovered.
Much like a bad case of looking at a camera flash, just longer.
Rex Burkheimer
Parts Plus Marketing Director WM Automotive Whse., Fort Worth TX
"Never attribute to evil that which can be explained by stupidity" -George
Pyle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gus_935" <gus_936id@yahoo.com>
To: <mill_drill@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: [mill_drill] Re: Laser~new use
> I heard in a news report a year ago that the MAYO clinic did a study
> and found no "Permanent" damage from staring into a laser pointer. I
> did not hear the specifics of the study.
>
> I don't advocate the practice but another datapoint.
>
>
> --- In mill_drill@y..., "Paul R. Hvidston" <p.hvidston@i...> wrote:
> > Interesting. Maybe next they'll be selling power miter boxes w/o
> blades to
> > avoid severed digit lawsuits ;-). I guess you can't blame 'em.
> Plenty of
> > silly people out there as it stands. Enough ranting...
> >
> > I had thought that mounting the laser on the head, facing the
> operator was
> > kind of dangerous, but since it's push-button operated, you
> wouldn't be in
> > harm's way while aligning the head. I'd like to run a test to see
> just how
> > repeatable one could position the head bouncing a laser off a wall.
> Seeing
> > the article in HSM(?) helped me decide to get the mill/drill, as
> having the
> > head on a round column can be a negative compared to a knee-mill.
> The other
> > deciding factors were, of course, cost, one-man installation and
> space
> > requirements ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paul R. Hvidston, N6MGN
> > ACKSYS Engineering
> > Upland, CA
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roger V. Petrella Jr." <rogerpjr@i...>
> > To: <mill_drill@y...>
> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [mill_drill] Laser~new use
> >
> >
> > > [SNIP] that is one reason Delta stopped selling their
> > > power miter saw with the laser alignment system as seen
> frequently on
> > > older New Yankee Workshop shows. They were afraid of law suits
> > > resulting from eye damage from people looking directly into the
> laser
> > > beam.
> > >
> > > Roger Petrella
>
>
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