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Ring cutter.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...558#post151487
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...777#post178908
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...900#post137414
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...911#post133620
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...474#post142841
If you don't wear a ring you never have to have one cut off.
I know a guy who was trying to boost the dead battery on his Jeep. He got his ring between the jumper cable and the battery post. Thing turned red hot when it made contact. Now he has a permanent ring branding on his baby finger.
One Monday morning a colleague came to me a with a young student had a very swollen, discolored finger. Since I was the shop teacher she asked if I had something to cut the ring of this girls finger. There was no way I was going to attempt to get cut that ring, with the girl's finger so swollen around it. All I could suggest was go to the fire department to see if they had a ring cutter. She they hopped in a car and headed for the fire station. It had been on there for two days.
Sometimes you just have to have the correct tool.
I last saw my wedding ring over 20 years ago. Didn't wear it all that much, as when I was a young guy, had a supervisor with a permanent ring. He'd gotten partially degloved when his caught on the edge of a 2-1/2 ton military truck. Doc was able to stitch it back in place, and it healed, but left him a Frankenstein scar around the ring finger. For once in my life I learned from someone else's mistake. I have welded a couple of screwdrivers to battery cables, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
One problem with those cutters is that they only work on soft metals, and folks are making rings of stainless steel, titanium, and tungsten these days. I've got a wedding band of SS that I found working in the industrial laundry years ago. I keep it, but don't wear it... Don't wear a wrist watch, anymore, either. Knew a guy...
At the start of each new class, I would set up my slide projector and load a cassette of do's and don'ts. I had the cassette loaded with as many gory slides as possible. After watching the slides of wristwatches being caught on things welding globs going inside of the gloves and turning them into branding irons, rings being mashed out of shape or getting welded, getting hung and degloving a finger, you get the picture. This one slow kid asked me does this mean we should be careful of our rings and watches while working?
NO, it means that today is the last time I want to see rings watches, dangling earrings or long necklaces in this class either here in the classroom or in the shop area, this is not a class of vanity, and you have no need-to-know what time it is there is a buzzer that will let you know when class is almost over.
Well can't we just put tape over our rings?
Sure you can, then I laid a pair of huge bolt cutters on my desk. Just how delicate do you think I can be with these if I have to remove your ring when something happens, because these might be the only cutting tool I can find in a hurry?
Slow kid didn't show up for class again.
I wore my wedding ring for the day of my wedding and told my wife I won`t wear it anymore. "Okay"
Similar to the technique I was taught in my family medicine rotation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9aXkGjslwQ
It does work, indeed. And here's another: https://www.google.com/search?q=ribb...0PEPyf6bsA0_28
A man contracted a fungal disease in his privates while in SE Asia. Filled with dread, he went to the doctor there and asked if surgery was needed. The doctor said, "All Americans want to do is cut, cut, cut. Don't worry, 2-3 days, it'll fall off by itself.
Infrequently, we have to remove rings for surgery. If going on the bypass machine, you get generalized swelling. If the ring is already too tight to remove, we sometimes need to use a ring cutter. But we had one nurse who remove just about any ring with the a suture (stitch) wrapped tightly around the finger like shown in the video. The hardest part was getting it over the elderly person’s arthritic knuckle which is not compressible
I do not want to remove my wedding ring, which is now roughly triangular in shape, deeply embedded and wearing thin. And yes, I acknowledge the risk of wearing one. It would not, I think, pass the swollen knuckle, so an accident would tear off most of the finger, not just strip the flesh.
I stopped wearing mine when it caught on the top of a step ladder when I was stepping down. Fortunately, it was only an 8' ladder, I was able to jerk the ladder to the side to tip in over and still land on my feet. It cut my finger anyway, but not seriously, just required a bandaid
In my early teens working at a brickwork's I jumped of the back of a tipper lorry and my signet ring snagged the tailgate lynch pin, luckily the ring split open but still cut me. I still have it but not worn any rings or wrist watches since.
I had a ring removed like this after a table saw accident, ironically while making a push stick after someone threw away the others! I told the surgeon I really didn't want the ring cut off if possible and he said "then you shouldn't have run your hand through a saw!" Fortunately it was my left hand and I still have nearly full motion with my index and middle fingers, he is a very good surgeon, one of the best in the mid-west actually. These ring saws are now made with very hard cutting blades so they can cut SS and many other metals. I think the new trend of silicon rings is a good idea for many of the reasons stated above. A pair of decent scissors is all you need to remove those.