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From: Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:24:03 +0000
My son-in-law works construction. Because of various obvious hazards to
wearing a wedding band, he had his tattooed on.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 3:59 PM Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Never had that problem, but long ago, I stuck my arm up under a dashboard
> and burnt a metal watchband in two. Took a month til I could wear a watch
> again... Leather band.
> .
>
> Leather band
> On Jul 15, 2015 5:39 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I must admit that I have never heard of that hazard.  Thanks for the
> heads
> > up.
> >
> > Jim Nichols
> > Tullahoma, TN USA
> >
> > On 7/15/2015 4:34 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> >
> >> 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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