Blood under the nail?

You know you're a machinist when you use your CNC mill, design a tool path that drills that hole to the proper depth to .0001."
 
Just be sure that if you're using the drill press method, you have switched out your new 1/4" brad-point carbide-tipped wood shredders from Lee Valley and are using a bit that's sized appropriately for surgery! ;)

All the best,

- Mike
 
I have actually gotten that exact thing done by a doctor. They had some specialized tool, but it essentially did the same thing. Completely painless.
 
Still mostly asleep, I smashed my fingertip in a trash compactor door one morning, nail lacerated the nail bed, extreme localized pain ensued for the next 10 hours. It got bad enough that I started sliding a small pen blade under the nail to relieve the pressure. It was real nasty though, continuous bleeding under the nail, pushing the nail up like it was gonna pop right off my finger.

My mother's neighbor was a podiatrist and, when I got out of work that night, I got him to have a look at it. He went out in his garage and came back with his dremel and a bit that looked more like a real thin taper carbide scribe than anything else. When the first hole broke through the nail, blood shot up a good 2, 2.5 feet in the air. And he said two was the way to go for proper draining. One to let it breathe and one to let it seep.
 
65535 said:
You know you're a machinist when you use your CNC mill, design a tool path that drills that hole to the proper depth to .0001."
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awesome, simply awesome, that made my Father laugh for a while. thank you :thumbup:
 
yeah when i started in the oil field id always smash my fingers, id always drill a hole thru my nail with the tip of my knife, once i even had to ram a cactus thorn under my nail to make a channel to release some pressure. $hit happens but relieving the pressure is always worth it.
 
Talfuchre said:
I went slow - and heated up the drill bit before trying. After seeing the bit poke out the bottom of my thumb a few times I realized I was a bit deep...

Okay - that last bit was just for PB... ;)

TF
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Thats cool. you can start a trend. Thumb piercings. You'll have folks lined up around your shop. Super cool folks too.:p
 
Ouch! Thats gotta hurt!
I read a gory story similar to this a few years ago, on a forum or in a knife/gun magazine?
Anyway the guy got his thumb caught in a reloading press, there was no reverse so he has to complete the cycle.
Anyway he gets his thumb out but the pain from blood building up under the fingernail just about drives him mad sooooo...
he does the drill press remedy described above.
Very graphic in description with blood flying and what not!
lol.
 
Slammed my thumb in a car door one night. Straightened a paper clip out and heated it on the gas range then got the girlfriend to push it through whie I looked the otherway.
lack yI was drunk.
Carl
 
Bushman5 said:
I'd sooner cut of a mangled finger with a knife than go thru a blood under the nail treatment. UUUHG HEEEBY JEEEBIES!
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Your nail and fingertip are numb from the throbbing. You don't really feel it until the blood comes out and then it's almost like an orgasm....okay, not really.
But you get the idear...:p
 
65535 said:
You know you're a machinist when you use your CNC mill, design a tool path that drills that hole to the proper depth to .0001."
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A friend of mine is a mechanical engineer. When he smashed his thumb a couple of years ago, and the blood started to collect under the nail, he fired up the cnc machining center. He didn't write a programm, he just put in the smallest drill bit we could find, had it spin at 6000 rpm and very slowly and carefully put his nail to it. Worked pretty good. He was afraid he would go to deep using a drill press. So, I can highly recommend the cnc approach.
ilten
 
andrew7978 said:
I have actually gotten that exact thing done by a doctor. They had some specialized tool, but it essentially did the same thing. Completely painless.
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Yeah, I saw these used while I was volunteering/shadowing in the ER. They're pretty cool, they look just like a pen light, but instead of a light bulb it has a pointy tip of wire that is connected to the batteries. Hit the switch and the wire starts to glow red hot and it'll slice right through the nail just like a red-hot paper clip. Pretty cool, was thinking I wanted to pick one up, but it's really just a uni-tasker, whereas a lighter and a paperclip (really anything metal would work) has many other uses.
 
You can also sand a flat on one side of a pin point.... then spin it between your fingers to drill through. The blood bubbles out well before you are in dander on hitting the nail bed..... wussies.... lol..


Rick
 
I keep a small drill bit in each of my big kits. I painted the non-sharp end with a bright nail polish to keep from getting lost and discovered that it made it grippier too. Wipe it with an alcohol pad and take set it on fire. It takes very little effort to get through a nail when using the bit by hand, which is much safer than using a power tool to drive it.

Pain is instantly relieved when you punch through and the pressure is relieved.
 
I used a map gas torch to get a needle really hot and fix me nail just a few weeks ago. I loved the feeling of getting that pressure out that it almost made me want to drop another rock on it. Kinda like wanting a zit just so you can pop it....ok yes i'm an odd duck.
 
Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
If your a carpenter and have never done this....you haven't been one long! :D
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AMEN...some of you guys might remember my finger last year...it finally looks ok. pressure treated 8x8x12 fell on it..the corner hit first...man that still hurts thinking about it.. I wish I had pics, but my pics went with my computer:grumpy:
I used my Skookum, seriously.
 
Ha! I did the same thing many moons ago (must have been in junior highschool). Smashed my thumb and the pooled blood was unbearable pressure. My mom took me to the doctor only to have him take a safety pin, heat it up with a lighter and poke a hole in the center of my thumb. Boy, it sure releaved the pressure and didn't hurt at all. I only felt a little bad when the blood shot out all over the Doc:D

ROCK6
 
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