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Offline Bellend

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Re: Splinter removal?
« Reply #10 on: 11 January 2013, 00:01 »
Surgical blades.

I've got fairly thick skin now so doesn't really hurt that much. Think I have a tiny shard of glass in my finger. Need to get that out.

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Offline thai-wronghorse

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Re: Splinter removal?
« Reply #11 on: 11 January 2013, 10:31 »
I've still got a piece of plywood in my wrist from about 15yrs ago,  that bugger aint ever coming out!  :rolleyes:

Offline Guy

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Re: Splinter removal?
« Reply #12 on: 11 January 2013, 11:20 »
scalpel is my preferred method... you can accurately cut through however many layers of dermis you need to in order to extract the foreign body.

Offline Jay

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Re: Splinter removal?
« Reply #13 on: 11 January 2013, 13:55 »
Stanley knife is my preferred method... oh wait. No. No, it's not :whistle:
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Offline MrBounce

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Re: Splinter removal?
« Reply #14 on: 11 January 2013, 17:30 »
If you have a diabetic friend, use one of their sterile blood testing needles. Alternatively get some Magnesium Sulphate Paste from the chemist, put some on where the splinter is and cover with a plaster. The paste will help draw the splinter to the surface where you can grab it with tweezers.

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Offline tweed

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Re: Splinter removal?
« Reply #15 on: 11 January 2013, 18:41 »
I always get a new sharp stanly blade or irwin and cut it out.

Only thing that does the job for me as I have leather palms

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Re: Splinter removal?
« Reply #16 on: 11 January 2013, 18:55 »
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Re: Splinter removal?
« Reply #17 on: 11 January 2013, 23:01 »
As above needle ,Stanley,  tweezers , get a lot of crap in my hands with my job, tweezers good for getting shards out of the eye too.