Tuesday, April 01, 2014

You Know You Are Geeky...

     ...When you find yourself stop-drilling a cracked fingernail with a red-hot paperclip.  Ew.

7 comments:

Ed Jones said...

I have used that method to relive the blood pressure under a mashed one but not a split finger nail.

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

Pics!

Dave In Indiana said...

I take it that the crack runs below the hyponychium (aka the quick). If not, I'd just clip it instead of letting it drive me up a wall snagging on everything it comes in contact with.

Roberta X said...

No pix, and it was above the quick, Dave. But it was wanting to extend further, so I stop-drilled and then trimmed the nail short; otherwise it would have kept on getting worse.

Ritchie said...

I find Maybelline Express Finish to be helpful in such cases, and more durable than 5 minute epoxy. Clear, of course, in my case. Would probably work well for sealing primers.

Bulldog Man said...

My medic always provided the shot-size needles for such use. For blood blisters under the bed of the nail, a 16 gauge blood-draw type needle worked best.

Anonymous said...

My doc used a straightened paperclip, heating it in his pipe lighter. He prefered that to a needle as the hole was bigger, and the heat from the hot paperclip melted through the nail.