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Old 05-31-2006, 21:44   #1
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Sliver Removal Kits

Does anyone make these or do you guys use the existing tools in your kit?

The question is for serious slivers, not the ones tweezers can reach.
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Old 05-31-2006, 22:09   #2
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Minor surgical kit has everything I ever needed.
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Old 06-01-2006, 07:32   #3
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Minor surgical kit has everything I ever needed.
Yep...
A little lido (for the long lost ones), #11 blade, and some mosquito's usually does the trick

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Old 06-01-2006, 08:12   #4
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Bill, you can always use a piece of broken bubble wrap in place of that #11 blade.
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Old 06-01-2006, 08:36   #5
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Yep...
A little lido (for the long lost ones), #11 blade, and some mosquito's usually does the trick

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Eagle,
What are mosquito's?


Kyo, will go make some more.
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Old 06-01-2006, 12:19   #6
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Does anyone make these or do you guys use the existing tools in your kit?

The question is for serious slivers, not the ones tweezers can reach.
Not sure what a #11 blade is, Scalpel?, What I have found to work very well is a #18 needle (for injections). The tip is cut at a angle is very sharp. It can go under the sliver and remove it.

(I think the #18 is the right size, a little on the big end of needles)
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Old 06-01-2006, 13:19   #7
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Does anyone make these or do you guys use the existing tools in your kit?

The question is for serious slivers, not the ones tweezers can reach.
Damn, you been playing with pointy things again unsupervised? How much crap are you catching on the home front for this exercise NDD, who of course knows things, described the same set up my medics used to extract a whole load of black palm slivers from my palm. Worked like a charm, but as I recall it took a bit more than a little lido. Maybe that was because it was my junior medic and he was concerned about his EER
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Mr Harsey,

Aren't sliver removal kits (aka big knife) issued on your first day of logging? Don't you make them on a regular basis?



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Old 06-01-2006, 16:01   #9
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Mr. Harsey's creations are more like appendage removal kits, LL.
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Y'all are being kind of hard on the Blademaster about the bubble wrap thing. I would not be surprised to see some knives coming out of his shop sheathed in pink lace in the future....

Bill,
A mosquito is a small vascular clamp. It can be straight or curved and have teeth or not.

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Old 06-01-2006, 19:44   #11
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Y'all are being kind of hard on the Blademaster about the bubble wrap thing. I would not be surprised to see some knives coming out of his shop sheathed in pink lace in the future....

Bill,
A mosquito is a small vascular clamp. It can be straight or curved and have teeth or not.

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NDD, Thanks!
I'll locate some up here for the kit.

LL,
small slivers huh? I guess so. I watched my brother once pull a sliver out of a guys foot that had gone thru the bottom of his boot clear out the top with the foot in the middle.
Some bad slivers we had in the woods are the ones on top of big stumps that are the remains of the "hinge" when the tree was felled. These could be from inches to several feet tall and kind of spike shaped. The hazard to loggers was to jump from one stump to another, slip and fall on the "slivers".
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