RE: Cutting Small Parts on a Table Saw

[Lew Hodgett]

Enjoy

Lew

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[Gerald Ross]

In other words, if you've got a small part, keep it off the table saw.

[Larry Blanchard]

You're not alone. I did the same thing a couple of years ago.

But having experience with emergency rooms, I knew all they would do was clean the wound and bandage it - I chose to stay home and treat it myself. But my tetanus shot was up to date.

BTW, non-stick bandages are great! Something hospitals don't seem to have discovered. Last time they treated a damaged finger for me, changing the bandages they used was the most painful part of the whole process.

[RonB]

I thought about skipping the hospital but I was pretty sure it got into the bone. It did, so they had to give me antibiotics. I found out years ago that dirty bone injuries are a good way to get into all kinds of infections.

RonB

[Larry Jaques]

Aw, heck. Just dip the stub into the car battery and it's good as new. Debrided and everything! A swish of Betadine, a swab of Bacitracin, butterfly it closed, and walk it off. Nexxxxxxxxxxt!

-- Truth loves to go naked. --Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

[Sonny]

Unless you're allergic to iodine, then use phisohex for swishing.

Sonny

[SonomaProducts.com]

Nice technique. I love safe thoughts. I have a lampshade to build with many small parts. This will surely help.

[Morgans]

You're not alone. I did the same thing a couple of years ago.

But having experience with emergency rooms, I knew all they would do was clean the wound and bandage it - I chose to stay home and treat it myself. But my tetanus shot was up to date.

BTW, non-stick bandages are great! Something hospitals don't seem to have discovered. Last time they treated a damaged finger for me, changing the bandages they used was the most painful part of the whole process.

************************************** I reached across a blade that was too high still under full power. Thumb almost to the bone.

Did you snip all the damaged meat out before closing it? They did, for me. I had a nice saw kerf in my thumb before they closed it. As far as non stick bandages go, yeah. big help. They did not have much like that in

1984.

-- Jim in NC