Tapping a fingernail-what's the best way?

Well, today I smashed a finger on each hand, I'm at full-tilt pain. I've never tapped a nail, but it's TIME. I tried burning a small drill bit through the nail, but that hurts like a bitch. And I've tried drilling the nail with a small hobby bit to no avail. Any tips?

 

i heat up a pin and push it through yah it hurts but it feels pretty good once you get it through

 

heat a paperclip red hot (lighter will do) and push it through just enough to put a hole in your nail- that will release the fluid.

 

i use a new exacto blade....and roll it between my fingers like a drill of sorts....

 

You take a sewing needle and heat it up red hot. It'll melt the nail and go right in. It's always a little sketchy doing your own surgery so if you have a friend, let them have at it.

NAES

 

real men use an ax

 

My uncle was using the drill bit in a drill one time and the bit hung in the nail and ripped his nail off.

 

Be a real man
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The paper clip always worked for me. Red hot and let it melt a whole, If you have to heat it twice,
clean it with some alcohol or something first, And a grease shop rag to catch the results, should be quite the show if its fresh, PICS !!!

 

this is horrible ive never heard of such a procedure.

 

My wife the licenced cosmetologist, says "A hot pin or needle will do the trick, However let your doctor do it and if it gets infected you can blame them."

Josh

 

thats pretty freakin nasty. Time for supper.

 

Put the smallest drill you have in a pin vise, only let about .020 of drill stick out, and twist it thru! It wont hurt nearly as much as when you mashed it!! JC

 

real men suck it up- like Barnes said in "Platoon"...

Take the pain... TAKE THE PAIN!"

Anyway, been there, done that... mine was a 4lb mallet to the thumb at 20- came up with words that I never knew exsisted in my head.

Any method mentioned will work, but if you use the exacto, make sure to soak it in alcohol or boil it first (whole knife) so you don't risk infection.

Best of luck, Groucho!

Mac

 

Put your finger in the vice, use a 3/16 drill bit in a hand drill, heat the drill bit red hot and make sure you push hard. Let me know how it works out. Oh yeah, bite an a welding glove at the same time.

 

Dont push too hard

 

My step dad was always doing this...used to heat up a needle and tap it...as he got older he would pull his own teeth and say, "Well I made your mother another pair of earrings today!" He was eccentric but very cool...sure miss him

 

I watched a guy drill one in a drill press one tiem, I almost puked! SPPPUUURRRTTTT!

 

If you aint a man before that happens you will be one after. JC

 

OMG LMAO.

I feel your pain

All the suggestions work. Believe me I know.

My wife really likes this kind of "surgery". I have no problem getting her to inflict pain on me at any hour of the day. She especially like the geyser effect on a well swollen finger.

I'm sure if that does not work for you, call up your "best friend". He'll likely will not mind experimenting on you...

He might even bring beer and friend to watch it all go down..

Mike

www.Customikes.com

 

HAHA!! sounds like my first girl friend!

 

shock it. Ice water to hot water, Back and forth till it starts to ease up.

 

A pin leaves too small of a hole and clotts up. A paper clip and an alcohol base fuel candle is what the doctor used in the ER. After I saw that i cant tell you how many nails I tapped. I forget the greek work Exasperated no thats not it .
there was no pushing involved.

 

I took a small dia. sewing needle, dipped it in alcohol, and pushed it in under the finger nail from the front. I was in so much pain that little bit of pain didn't matter.

 

The nail pretty much melts as the hot pin or paperclip touches it.

Instant relief though. I think I had my first one done at the doctor when I was 7 or 8. Slammed my finger in the car door.

 

Just ignore it ....AND GET BACK TO WORK!!!

 

THIS sounded like the best method to me.AND IT WORKED! Thanks, my cherry's been popped

 

I think this sounds like the way to go...


And take some video of it,too

Dang, too late

 

Both hands who was swinging the hammer???????

 

I'm laughing so hard my wife is worried that I'll have a frikin heart attack

Thanks for the close up. That really made my day. Popped his Cherry...

Off to dinner...

Mike

www.Customikes.com