Remember how car batteries used to have big lead lugs joining each
cell to the next? Just the right gap between them for a ring to bridge
the gap, draw some hundreds of amps, vaporise and neatly remove and
cauterise a finger.
On 15/07/2015, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Rings can be a hazard in some circumstances. A boy a few years older
> than me, who was loading something on his father's stake-bed truck,
> jumped off the truck and his ring caught on the top of the bed.
> Needless to say, he lost a finger.
>
> I am familiar with the rule about no rings when working with rotating
> machine tools.
>
> When I had open heart surgery, one of the nurses told my wife to stick
> around for a moment and she would give her my ring, because the hands
> often swell following surgery. Knowing I had difficulty removing it,
> Donna asked her how they would get it off. She smiled and said, "We
> have our ways". In a couple of minutes, she handed Donna the ring.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 7/15/2015 4:04 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> I still do have a ring on my finger. I can't bring myself to take it
>>> off.
>> That's perfectly OK. Nothing wrong with it. Besides, it shows the
>> lasses that you aren't some creep living in his mom's basement.
>>
>> I wore mine for about the first year, but developed a severe skin
>> sensitivity to it. That and getting myself royally zapped! I've tried
>> wearing it through the years but it's a no-go. My dad didn't wear his
>> because as a precision tool maker, it was a work hazard. So I just
>> fell in with his example.
>>
>> AG
>
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