Machinist Splinters

[ELR LVR]

This is just some helpful advice for you guys that "turn and burn"
We've all done it, pick up a piece of material and sure enough a tiny splinter embeds into your finger somewhere
And most of us do not wear gloves while machining due to the hazards of it.
Sometimes a splinter wedges in between your fingers so its difficult to hold your hand at that angle and pick it out
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We attack with a needle even though we cant see it very well
Get some Duct tape and try to sticky friction it out the reverse direction it went in.
Or any other viable surgical method
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We get the magnifying glass and clamp it in the vise and try and hold our hand under it to gouge out that irritating splinter that seems to rub on everything and seems to keep going deeper every time we bump it if we try to ignore it.
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SS and Brass do not corrode out very fast so its not like we can leave it there to just rust out
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Anyhow I came across something on YOU Tube a few years ago that the guy said works
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
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And sure enough
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
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I have tried this method it has worked
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1. run your hand under cold water for a minute to soften the skin
2. Next run your hand under Hot water, as hot as you can take it for same amount of time
3. Alternate between hot and cold and the repeated expansion and contraction of the skin will push the splinter right back out
Without doing more damage from poking a needle in there or getting the razor blade and cutting it out.
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Between the Hot and Cold process you can apply squeezing pressure to help the splinter come out
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Just did this again last night and, want to say, every time I have had something I could not get out this has worked
every single time.
it's awesome!

 

[Fast14riot]

Now if that would work for 'fiberglass rash' I would be set! 1-2 days a week I'm left itching with irritating, invisible, microscopic glass shards in my skin somewhere.

 

[ELR LVR]

Now if that would work for 'fiberglass rash' I would be set! 1-2 days a week I'm left itching with irritating, invisible, microscopic glass shards in my skin somewhere.

I HAVE had it work on a fiberglass splinter, man those are the worst, clear, cant see them
but it was only one splinter, from that green corrugated fiberglass roofing

 

[muleystalker]

Now if that would work for 'fiberglass rash' I would be set! 1-2 days a week I'm left itching with irritating, invisible, microscopic glass shards in my skin somewhere.

When you go to wash up use cold water not hot.

 

[mikeinct]

I've been a shop rat all my life . Good tips, but when young enough to see well. The trusty old micrometer makes the best, right near you and works splinter puller. Amazing the ability of the hardened parts to grab a tiny barb of steel or brass.. unclemikeinct

 

[Fast14riot]

When you go to wash up use cold water not hot.

Haven't found a link of difference between cold and hot with raw fiberglass in fabric, chop or powdered that I deal with. Cured glass i now scrub with a Scotch brite pad when I wash up.

 

[ELR LVR]

Now if that would work for 'fiberglass rash' I would be set! 1-2 days a week I'm left itching with irritating, invisible, microscopic glass shards in my skin somewhere.

It wasn't enough to sand down your Panda, couldn't stop there no
You sanding down some Mcmillans now aren't ya?

 

[dusterdave173]

This old time 'drawing salve" WORKS
Herbs and activated charcoal etc --is Messy-- put it on the splinter --cover with bandaid to keep the black off of everything you own--next morning the offending splinter should be out on the top
I have used this stuff for decades
It Works!

 

[urbanrifleman]

I absolutely wear rubber gloves. And they have saved my fingers a few times.

That being said, I found some amazing thick gloves on Amazon. And I hate all the other thin gloves.

These are the best rubber gloves on the market.

https://a.co/d/9cdfz30

 

[Fuj]

Can't count the times, watching the evening news, picking away with
a needle.....Don't let me tell you about the several times I went to the
doctors to have things removed from my eyes. Even wearing glasses
with side shields, you'll get bit.

 

[Fast14riot]

It wasn't enough to sand down your Panda, couldn't stop there no
You sanding down some Mcmillans now aren't ya?

Not yet, have one needing work. I sell fiberglass supplies among other materials. So I handle a lot of raw glass products.

 

[old_heli_logger]

We've always used bacon grease to remove bark slivers. Douglas fir bark is the worst. Tape or Bandaid a piece of raw bacon fat to the affected area and leave it overnight. I've never tried it on fiberglass, but I bet it'll work.
Good luck

 

[Konocti's Wigwam]

One of the best. You can literally pick the skin around the sliver until you can pull it out.

Uncle Bill's Original Sliver Gripper

Uncle Bill's Sliver Grippers Tweezers

www.slivergripper.net

 

[338 Mollett]

Thank you for the tip !!! I broke my own safety rule one time by not taking out the 1/2" cutter of the mill while making adjustments of the work piece and ran the inside of my middle finger across the bottom edges . I had over a dozen splinters embedded in a inch long gouge . I now refer to rule no. one more often . LOL

 

[Gabe22BR]

I usually try the magnet first, before going to other methods..

 

[dusterdave173]

Read where old Nascar legend Ray Fox told that when they first started porting and grinding on iron cylinder heads he constantly had metal in an eye--the answer was a gigantic magnet on top of the shop fridge that worked many times he said--

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

This is just some helpful advice for you guys that "turn and burn"
We've all done it, pick up a piece of material and sure enough a tiny splinter embeds into your finger somewhere
And most of us do not wear gloves while machining due to the hazards of it.
Sometimes a splinter wedges in between your fingers so its difficult to hold your hand at that angle and pick it out
--------------
We attack with a needle even though we cant see it very well
Get some Duct tape and try to sticky friction it out the reverse direction it went in.
Or any other viable surgical method
--------------
We get the magnifying glass and clamp it in the vise and try and hold our hand under it to gouge out that irritating splinter that seems to rub on everything and seems to keep going deeper every time we bump it if we try to ignore it.
--------------
SS and Brass do not corrode out very fast so its not like we can leave it there to just rust out
--------------
Anyhow I came across something on YOU Tube a few years ago that the guy said works
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
--------------
And sure enough
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
-------------
I have tried this method it has worked
-------------
1. run your hand under cold water for a minute to soften the skin
2. Next run your hand under Hot water, as hot as you can take it for same amount of time
3. Alternate between hot and cold and the repeated expansion and contraction of the skin will push the splinter right back out
Without doing more damage from poking a needle in there or getting the razor blade and cutting it out.
-------------
Between the Hot and Cold process you can apply squeezing pressure to help the splinter come out
-------------
Just did this again last night and, want to say, every time I have had something I could not get out this has worked
every single time.
it's awesome!

This might be right up there with the hot spoon trick for mosquitoe bites!
If you have an itchy mosquitoe bite, take a metal spoon, run it under straight hot water, then press the convex surface onto the bite. Something about the heat just kills the itch.

 

[Rockhill Rifles]

This is just some helpful advice for you guys that "turn and burn"
We've all done it, pick up a piece of material and sure enough a tiny splinter embeds into your finger somewhere
And most of us do not wear gloves while machining due to the hazards of it.
Sometimes a splinter wedges in between your fingers so its difficult to hold your hand at that angle and pick it out
--------------
We attack with a needle even though we cant see it very well
Get some Duct tape and try to sticky friction it out the reverse direction it went in.
Or any other viable surgical method
--------------
We get the magnifying glass and clamp it in the vise and try and hold our hand under it to gouge out that irritating splinter that seems to rub on everything and seems to keep going deeper every time we bump it if we try to ignore it.
--------------
SS and Brass do not corrode out very fast so its not like we can leave it there to just rust out
--------------
Anyhow I came across something on YOU Tube a few years ago that the guy said works
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
--------------
And sure enough
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
-------------
I have tried this method it has worked
-------------
1. run your hand under cold water for a minute to soften the skin
2. Next run your hand under Hot water, as hot as you can take it for same amount of time
3. Alternate between hot and cold and the repeated expansion and contraction of the skin will push the splinter right back out
Without doing more damage from poking a needle in there or getting the razor blade and cutting it out.
-------------
Between the Hot and Cold process you can apply squeezing pressure to help the splinter come out
-------------
Just did this again last night and, want to say, every time I have had something I could not get out this has worked
every single time.
it's awesome!

That is so true. The splinters can cause a lot of problems as well. I had one imbedded and it got infected. Picture is worth a thousand words.

 

[std7mag]

Wait.....

You guys have hot water at work???

 

[RCE1]

This old time 'drawing salve" WORKS
Herbs and activated charcoal etc --is Messy-- put it on the splinter --cover with bandaid to keep the black off of everything you own--next morning the offending splinter should be out on the top
I have used this stuff for decades
It Works!

My dad, a scientific administrator and AVID amateur craftsman in a dizzying array of media, swore by Ichthammol Ointment, a black drawing salve. Haven't seen it lately, but your post reminded me of it. I miss him.