Machinist Splinters

[danny]

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!

Wowsers "Chieftain".

Most of the time that I can't get the splinter out is because it is so small that it can't really be seen. If I can see it, I can usually "hack" it out. Will it work if you can't really see it?

Danny

 

[danny]

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.

If you get Poison Ivy and run the sores under the hottest water you can handle, it soothes the pain. I found that out by mistake.

Danny

 

[ELR LVR]

Wowsers "Chieftain".

Most of the time that I can't get the splinter out is because it is so small that it can't really be seen. If I can see it, I can usually "hack" it out. Will it work if you can't really see it?

Danny

yes, I've found it works even with the splinters you cant see.
Sometimes it takes 5 minutes of repeating the process
However I have attacked any splinter within a day of noticing it.
So I can't comment on something that may have been left in for a week or more
In that time I have seen new skin grow over

 

[std7mag]

If you get Poison Ivy and run the sores under the hottest water you can handle, it soothes the pain. I found that out by mistake.

Danny

Naaa...

I run a razor blade backwards to open the blisters.
Splash of MEK, and it's dried up about the same time that the screaming is done.

 

[cavedweller60]

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

Many moons ago I worked as a carpenter for a few years. Every time we got a new kid and they spent some time crawling around in some insulation they would inevitably whine about how itchy they were. Being the standup co-workers we were, we would readily tell them how to get rid of the itch...go home and take a real hot shower. Was that the wrong thing to do??

 

[ELR LVR]

Many moons ago I worked as a carpenter for a few years. Every time we got a new kid and they spent some time crawling around in some insulation they would inevitably whine about how itchy they were. Being the standup co-workers we were, we would readily tell them how to get rid of the itch...go home and take a real hot shower. Was that the wrong thing to do??

Thats like one uncle I had told us to wash our poison oak off with Kerosene

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

Thats like one uncle I had told us to wash our poison oak off with Kerosene

We would use gasoline. The theory is that the bad stuff is a tacky oil, so flush it off.

 

[ELR LVR]

We would use gasoline. The theory is that the bad stuff is a tacky oil, so flush it off.

Good idea!
Everybody got that?
Use one or the other

 

[snert]

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!

If I used that I'd wake up with my entire nose full of black stuff....

 

[mike mccormick]

I always keep a little tin of PRID salve in the medicine cabinet. Works really well

 

[Old Navy]

Good idea!
Everybody got that?
Use one or the other

Preferably while not smoking.