Tapping a fingernail-what's the best way?

I always found when I do this that if you take a medium size phillips screw driver and drive it into your ear as far as you can, the nail pain seems to go away.

 

This is the best advice. An old machinist showed me the pin vice method 40 years ago. If you don't do more than just break through, you'll hardly feel it. Pull the drill out, the blood spurts out, and most of the pain goes away. Unfortunately, I've needed this more than once.

 

Sorry to hear and I feel your pain. Smashed my thumb about a month ago. I called a pharmacist buddy(their doctors right) and he said if the finger was broke,not to poke a hole in it. I just taped it up and dealt with it. Sucks for about a week. About three weeks later the original fell off and there was a new one growing in. Taking a piss is the worst...

 

I think it's time to have a BBQ sandwich now

 

get drunk first, then turn the bit with your fingers in a back and forth motion.

 

Yep no problem, it is even articulating like the finger it replaced so you can reach those tough spots!

 

Whenever I have an emergency medical problem, I always call on the experts on the HAMB for guidance.

 

Hot pin and alcohol. A double of Jack Daniels oughta do it.

 

You forgot you need to use alchol first...I like Jack Daniels .... if you use it right you will never feel a thing....

 

I have never laughed at a post as much as this one. I'm a nurse. Worked in an ER and now in a Surgery Center. I've seen MANY things but you guys crack me up.

Before I was a nurse I was a machinist. I still use # drills in a pin vise but now I think about antibiotics too.

I love the icon Groucho.

I'm going to have my first of both hips replaced soon and to save a few bucks I was wondering if you guys had any advice? I mean do you guys prefer Milwaukee over DeWalt sawsalls and how many teeth per inch do you guys use for bone

 

That's what we are here for... Glad to be of assistance

 

Either will work & depending on if your awake or not will dictate the number of teeth per inch.
Now for the hip ball, an old friend had his replace 2x & when I saw the 1st one I told him it would make one hellva shifter knob or even a trailer hitch ball since on the bottom of it read "2 5/8 Ball"

But remember NO PAIN, NO GAIN .......
Hell I even have a choice of 5different pairs of crutches I'll rent to you CHEAP ..joe

 

ROFL.... Always sound medical advice here... Always...

 

would have won tech week too....

 

I always use the smallest sharpest drill bit I own. The pain stops as soon as the blood gushes out. If you wait til the next day the blood dries, so do it immediately. Then sterilize the hole, dry it, and fill with super glue. Go back to work. Most of my nails are flat and mangled from years of body work. One is black now from a dolly and hammer.

 

I smashed my index finger in an 80's mustang post car door. Completely shut on it.

Next day went to see the doc. He did the needle deal. It worked ok. It kept swelling back up and I'd have to reopen the hole.

Couple days later it still hurt like hell.

This time the doc filled a syringe with pain killer and pumped the whole thing on one side of the finger. Repeat other side. I guess there are nerves running down each side.

Then he took a scalpel and dug under the back side of the nail, took a pair of plier looking things and peeled the nail off.

Hurt like hell when the meds wore off.

 

Damn.....now if I could find a matching pair of shifters maybe I could have the doc put them in instead of a pair of BILLET Titanium ones....that way I could be traditional!

A pair of OE Mopar pistol grips would also be cool but I'm afraid that I'd get an overwhelming urge to wear a wifebeater and start sporting a mullet, Joe Dirt style y'all

 

That picture is the stuff!!!I usually just suck it up and let the thing fall off.It happens to me about once every few months.Heavy fabrication has that effect.

 

1/4 high speed and high feed... if possible video tape the proceedure!

 

Man this brings back even more horror stories. When I was about 8 my buddy Roger Reitzel and I were jumping our bikes off a wooden ramp at the end of a sidewalk. I was behind him on my bike when he went over the ramp, lost his front wheel, dug the forks in, went over the handlebars and faceplanted onto the blacktop. He got up and and basically his face was hamburger spitting teeth and blood. he completely shattered his jaw and lost a good share of his teeth. Had to have his jaw wired shut. and eat through a straw....
My brother Steve slammed his finger in the door of his car. The door was locked and he had to dig into his opposite pocket with his free hand, grab his keys and unlock the door before he could open it...

 

I NEED TO CHANGE MY UNDERWEAR NOW!!!!!!

 

I heard a center punch and a five pound mallet does the trick.

 

damn, ive never smashed my fingers that hard. knock on wood...

 

OK,OK.... Now that put tears in my eyes laughing so hard.........!


I've only have one arm.... So, Ive never hit my finger with a hammer...
BUT...
I slammed my middle finger between a frame and the floor as I was trying to shift the frame over on a block of wood.... anyway too long to explain...
So, here's the funny part....
So, again, having one arm.... I put the paper clip in the table vise... heated paper clip with a lighter.... and held my finger up to the paper clip... it took quite a few reheats, due to had to have the heat do the work instead of the pressure as the paper clip had little tension...

Aw, the joys of being short handed....

Bryan

 

Bryan, next time that happens CALL ME! BTW, I am just around the corner at Dixon Bros, we need to hit Marlins for luch some day! ONE person can not finish the chikin fried steak!

 

This thread is hilarious! Serious stuff the hurt, but what a way to make it less painful with these stories, eh? and Yeah I always thought Jack Daniels' Old No 7 was one of the best medical assistants! Reminds me years ago when pop flipped his circular saw (he tied back the guard - it got in the way) & grabbed the blade. Took skin & tissue nearly thru the bone, mid-hand. He wrapped it in a rag then drove a few miles to his Doc. Pop said Doc took the rag off, and with blood running down Pop's arm, Doc pulls out a pint of whiskey and tells Pop he needs fluid - LOTS of fluid! Doc drove Pop home, with a stop at the "Fluid Store" on the way. By time I got home Pop was so "fluid restored" he could barely tell what happened. I think he was replacing fluids for a few days after that. No pills or other painkillers tho', he said they upset his stomach.... So to all y'all - if this happens to you and you have to relieve the pressure, make sure to replace the fluids you'll lose! Best medical advise I've ever heard!

 

You pig puss! Man these stories are great. Believe it or not, if it get so bad that the nail comes off (or pulled off with a set of greasy pliers) there is an overwhelming sense of relief. Thanks for sharing.

 

Don't eat your morning cereal while reading this stuff.
HAHAHAHA

 

wow here i thought of a real answer the swivel from a rear view mirror should work leave access for the allen head screw for when you need adjustment or are walking in circles .


My grandfatherinlaw was a one armed carpenter... Built a new house around the too small existing house by himself with out power tools
then dismantled the old one and threw it out the window ... Wished i could have witnessed that and shake his hand ...

Now picture it...
Carrying lumber, sawing boards, hammering nails ,installing doors and windows , working over yer head and demolition

must have been really a clever s.o.b.

 

Chili dog for me please.