Working at a Steel Plant, I am constantly getting little metal slivers in my hands.
Tiny Lttle Needle Dick Bug Fuckers that you can’t see even with glasses on but can absolutely feel everytime you grab ahold of something.
This is under heavy magnification and was very difficult to get the camera focused on,
Next to the tip of a Ball Point Pen for comparison,
I have two tools I use for digging the little bastrds out that work REALLY well.
First up is a very inexpensive lighted magnifying glass you can get at Harbor Freight,
I bought 2.
There is a little circle in the glass that really blows things up good so you can see them. I use it for reading drill bit and tap sizes too.
The other is a pair of Kick Ass tweezers from Tweezerman.
Get the pointed ones, trust me.
They are not cheap, about $25.50 but they are worth their weight in Gold to me.
You could pick a single hair off a Gnat’s ass with those things.
So if you have to deal with little slivers like I do, there is your Go To tool box.
You’re Welcome.
Yea but those metal slivers help pull your boogers out.
I worked in a steel melt shop, making alloy for the investment casting industry.
PRID Drawing Salve. This stuff is heaven sent, it draws out tiny splinters and slivers. You can get it at Walmart, drug stores and amazon. Put a blob on on the tiny splinter and a band aide over it. IT WORKS for when you can’t see them to dig them out !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmCOj8gCl3w
Y,,sux when the Invisible is only detectable by rubbing one direction.
We’ve got some very devious little weeds with almost hair like thorns. If ya feel The Bite,you are carrying something stuck in your finger.
While working, keep your eyes closed when removing any eye protection. I got one of those in an eye once. Had to have a doctor remove it.
That “helping hand” from Harbor Freight is a must for soldering wires to components and surface mount caps and resistors.
I hear ya on that Buddy … I’ll deal with a 6 stitch cut rather than on of those annoying bastards !
Get a MRI with those in your body , then you feel the pain. The steel pieces move from the magnetic pull. If you work around metal , they normally x-ray your eyes before a MRI .
You beat me to it. I was going to suggest using an electromagnet. You win, I wasn’t thinking that BIG.
I get those sometimes – not as often as you, I’m sure. I always keep a pocketknife blade really sharp for opening up the area – doesn’t hurt as much as the sliver. Tape works, if enough of the sliver is exposed.
I worked with steel for about 20 years between 2 jobs. i always carried a magnifying glass part of my edc. but i used a razor blade to get splinters out, sometimes you can just grab ahold of it and walk it out other times (below skin) i’de have to dig it out. i usually got it out. but like you said, sometimes you just have to wait a few days for it to walk out a little bit so you can see it. I always used a new single edge razor blade.
I always used a sheetrock knife blade. The sharper angled point tended to work better for me.
That and at the last job, we had a 25x magnifier to find those little bastards.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Don’t you hate when you work all day with steel and get home, have a cold beer, start looking at porn and wind up with a bloody dick.
Isn’t that normal?
Next time water gloves!
Thanks for the post. A while back, I stepped on a piece of glass (from a piece of broken glass that I didn’t vacuum up) and it embedded in my heel. I pulled out the shard, but I apparently left a small speck deep inside. Eventually it worked irs way toward the surface, and I coaxed it out with a dental explorer. But it still hurt, and I realized there was another shard still inside. That magnifying glass from Harbor Freight was the key. Under the glass, the light pattern from the remaining shard was very visible. I hope that I got it all.
Amazing what a nuisance a tiny little bastard like that can cause. Thanks for the medicine and love on your wifey.
I have a nice pair of tweezers with a good magnifying glass for the damn near invisible little metal slivers.
When the doctor pulled one from my eye, he said: It’s a little piece of steel”
I asked him how he knew.
He replied: “Because it’s rusty”
I saw halos for a few days.
I was wearing safety glasses. As near as I can tell, the wind blew it around the glasses.
if it does not show on xray, forget about it being removed.
That tweezers would be great for needle dicked liberals to use when they have to pee standing up.
I think the only thing worse would be a high pressure hydraulic line failure.
I fiber optics as a contractor. Sometimes you get little shards of glass implanted unintentionally. The kind you only feel when brush against something the wrong way. These things are clear glass, about as long as a gnats pubs. We use some friction tape because it’s some of the stickiest tape I’ve ever seen. It pulls out the stuff you can’t see. Or we have a glue used for turning single fiber into ribbon fiber. A dab of that, let it dry and peel it off your skin and it takes the glass shard with it.