>
>Anybody got any good suggestions on persuading tiny steel splinters to come
>far out of the skin of your hands so you can get them with tweezers?
>
? ... with a scapel, cut parallel to the splinter, extract it with
tweezers or the magnet from a microwave oven magnetron. Mop up the red
stuff. Close the wound with superglue. Recently lightly-imbedded
splinters can sometimes (with a sharp knife held at a right angle) be
worked out by repeatedly stroking the hide in the direction of the entty
point.
Rich...
R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures
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