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Thread: Crushed Fingernail? Harbor Freight To The Rescue

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    Boolit Grand Master In Remembrance
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    I do electronics so I use a pin vise to spin the bit and usually a carbide 20 mil or so diameter bit, I don't get many crush injuries but have had staph or the like under a fingernail a few times; Same sense of relief but it's not blood coming out. Raising an injured finger above heart level can reduce the dreaded "Oww I heel my heartbeat in that finger, in a BAD way!" symptom. And with a pin vise you're drilling pretty slow so chance of overpenetration is reduced.

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    Decided to hit my finger with a hammer at work a few months ago .Used a Dremel tool with a small bit to drill a hole wow that feels good when the blood goes flying.

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    Sometime around 1981 I managed to get the butt cut of a chunk of firewood on my left thumb. Lord have mercy! After a couple days of coping with it, something had to give. I'd had several tell me the various ways (all listed above) to get some relief. I wasn't up for heating up a needle and jabbing it through, but had heard of drilling it. That thing was throbbing with every heart beat and some kind of hurtin'. I finally headed down to the shop/barn and got out a Black & Decker hand drill. I found the absolute smallest drill bit I had and got after it, gently of course. When the drill finally 'hit oil' I stopped. Whew! Finally some relief. Of course the entire turned black before it was over. Over the next several weeks, the nail came off in small pieces. I sure wasn't going to force it. Then one evening sitting in church, what remained of the nail came off. I wasn't sure at the time if I was going to lose it forever or what. Thankfully, it grew back normal. I feel for the human it happens to. Of course, I could have went to a doctor and gotten it done proper. But what self respecting 27 year old country did that back then? What was I thinking? Heaven forbid it ever happens to me again, but I won't hesitate to take it up with the nearest nurse practitioner or whatever.

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    I use a pin vise with the drill barely sticking out.
    I spin it by hand and move the drill out a little bit at a time in the pin vise until it just breaks thru.
    Ah...relief
    just sayin'
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    Size/Prime a few cases when starting off with a progressive and put them aside. You can plug them back into the process when a bad/odd case screws up in the priming station and continue loading.

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    Or you can hit it again with a hammer......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texas by God View Post
    Or you can hit it again with a hammer......

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    Did that while putting a metal roof on my house. Do you have any idea what kind of distance you can get throwing a 16 oz. blue handle Estwing from the top of a house, down hill.

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    Probably not far enough for complete satisfaction, but pretty far

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check