Another use for an angle grinder.....

[SH]

Read and Enjoy or weep or laugh!!

[Andy Burns]

the photo may show an angle grinder, but I suspect it'd really be a ring cutter, I remember my mum needing her engagement ring cut off when going into hospital by an AA battery powered dremel-type tool, very underpowered.

[Colin Bignell]

Much more graphic an image, which might discourage others.

but I suspect it'd really be a ring

Probably also reciprocating, rather than rotating, like the cutters used to remove plaster casts. They will cut rigid material, but not flesh.

[Robin]

but what if the flesh is rigid?

[Colin Bignell]

I wondered after whether I should have use that word, given the context.

[Chris Hogg]

Such reports are fairly regular, IIRC.

[Andy Burns]

It was rotary, but very slow.

[GB]

I've never had the courage to try this out with my multitool. Which bit of your body would you choose to try this out on, just in case it turns out that multitools can cut flesh?

[Colin Bignell]

Somewhere that has plenty of flesh above the bone and where, if you do end up in A&E, it is easy to explain as a power tool accident :-)

The inside of the forearm might be a good place.

[Rod Speed]

But harder to have something to cut with the multitool as an experiment and not ideal showing up in the A&E bleeding like a pig with a torniquet to avoid bleeding to death in the waiting room.

[Brian Gaff]

Actually, this same issue was on an episode of A and E down under. IE Australia. To be honest, cold water and a lubricant is all you should need, no need for firemen or exotic tools. This sort of thing happens a lot apparently. adolescents experimenting tend to be the normal culprits. Key rings the most common device. Bruising and some slight abrasions are all that ensue normally, ask any nurse. They see them a lot if they work in A/E. One has to chuckle but an angle grinder? No way, the type of saw used to remove plaster casts is often much more useful. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

It never is, at least not as rigid as the substance being cut. The danger in what is described is tissue death due to lack of circulation, but to be honest it would probably not be possible to completely block circulation in the organ with any ring you could use when flaccid. Anyway when did this group become diy medical? Brian

[Dave Plowman (News]

Not sure a saw is a good idea. Expensive gold swarf?

Many years ago, my mother complained about a tight ring. But wouldn't get it seen to. Inserted a feeler gauge gauge under it and cut it with side cutters.

[Paul]

There are pictures.

I always wondered how they made sausages... Thank you, ScienceDirect.

Paul

[GB]

Agreed :)

Well away from any tendons. I think muscle heals much better. Better get an anatomy textbook before experimenting. :)