The black silicone works slick too! ;)
But the gauze and black electrical tape is my favorite! :3dSMILE:
You weren't looking for pity were you??? :p
Just saying... you ain't gettin' NONE! LOL..:eek::LOL::eek::LOL:
Happy Thanksgiving Joe! :)
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The black silicone works slick too! ;)
But the gauze and black electrical tape is my favorite! :3dSMILE:
You weren't looking for pity were you??? :p
Just saying... you ain't gettin' NONE! LOL..:eek::LOL::eek::LOL:
Happy Thanksgiving Joe! :)
If it would’ve been any other cut, I would’ve just wrapped black tape around it. Problem was there was no electrical tape. As far as looking for sympathy or pity, lol never. I just look at it as though I’m just adding to my collection of scars :whacked: :eek: :rolleyes:
Happy Thanksgiving to you also. Mine was going to be spent loading a trailer, it looks like that’s on hold at least for myself. Thank God, Renee’s daughter is going to help.
I hear the chicks dig scars ... quess that makes you a hot commodity!?!?! 8-)
And three days later and after I was turned away from an urgent care facility that night because they were closing in 15 minutes.
The only good thing is, it doesn’t hurt unless I accidentally hit it on something…..joe
HooBoy! Looks like it should be hurting a bunch! I hope you can get some real medical attention for that.
Since I grew up on a farm with a few cows our favorite was Bag Balm. Always a container of it here and used on us as well as the cows. 8-)
Corona ointment is all i use. grandpa would lather that stuff on anything from sunburn to amputations. speeds healing and stops infections. i'm a painter so i use paper towel and masking tape.
Having recently had minor surgery with 12 lovely stitches in my upper clavicle area, I've was told not to use Neosporin, but to clean with a combination of 7/8 water and 1/8 peroxide, then coat it with petroleum jelly then bandage to keep the wound and area around it soft, once the stitches were removed, it was highly recommended that I use "Mederma PM" intense overnight scar cream. As the surgeon who did the work is also a great friend, and I know where he lives :D , I took this as the best of the best in terms of post surgical care. 4 weeks out, and the scar is healing nicely.
Bill S.
Being a mechanic, I normally just wrap electrical tape or masking tape around cuts on my fingers and hands.
The only reason I use Neosporin it’s what I had at the moment.
I know all about clavicle surgery, had my right one 90% removed about 10yrs ago because of an infection to the joint. Had stitches in for 4 months, not pleasant at all.
The one thing I have going for me is the fact that I heal very very quickly. Whenever I have stitches or staples, they gotta come out in 10 days or I remove them because my skin grows over them. I figure by the end of the week it’ll be pretty much healed up. But I’m going to keep an eye on it and if it gets bad I’ll be off to the doctor….joe
It’s never ending. A few days before I tried to cut the tip of my pinky finger off I had stepped on a toothpick :eek: :whacked: :eek:. It broke off and Renee and myself couldn’t tell if anything was still in my foot and we both tried to get anything out. Just a tiny sliver came out and we thought that was it. It was sore as hell, but there was a tiny hole in my heel where it had broken off and we both thought the soreness was because of being stabbed in the heel by the toothpick. Tonight while staying in a hotel in Reno I decided to squeeze the hell out of the spot and out popped the tip of the toothpick. There was instant relief. Nothing like injuring yourself twice in one week….joe
That last one was almost funny! except splinters can almost always be the worst pain on earth! LOL..
HMMmmm... the things that pop out in hotel rooms! LOLOLOL ... HAHAHAHA 8-) Sorry Joe... (not sorry!)
The body always decides what it doesn't want in it. Lol
Thought I’d give an update on me almost cutting the tip of my finger off. Healing up pretty good for what I did about 3wks ago :rolleyes: Only side effect is a bit of numbness on the side of the finger, otherwise all is good :rolleyes: **) ….joe
it`s about 1975 or so .. the gas crisis had hit and rationing was taking place .. you could only buy 5 $ worth of gas at a time even if you were the only car in line ,, i circled the parking lot several times at this store to fill my tank .. at 30 cents a gallon this store must have closed very soon after that ..
Joe,
The finger is looking pretty good, especially considering you didn't get any stitches or super glue it!! :LOL:
I was working on some fun stuff for grandkids, and decided to make a few yo-yo's. I had cut the rounds, but needed to round over the outside edge so I turned to the router table and a 1/2" roundover bit for a nice profile. Took one of the sides and with my middle finger of the left hand pressing down on the center of the blank fed it into the blade, rotating it with my right hand. About 1/2 way around the blank caught the blade, flew across the shop and my left middle finger, pressing down hard went into the blade that was rotating at about 25,000 rpm and quickly was pulled back up. To this day I can almost count the hits of that blade at seven, and as a 1/2" roundover it fit the profile of my middle finger pretty good, but it took a clean cut layer off of my fingertip about 1/16" thick. If my "feeling count" was right, my finger tip was in contact with the blade for a bit less than 0.02 seconds - bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap.
My wife had her bridge group upstairs, so I grabbed a clean rag, wrapped my finger and walked up from the basement. Susan looked over, and I said, "I'm going to make a quick run to the ER to let them take a look at my finger. It's OK, but I'd feel better letting them look at it." At the ER the doctor looked and said, "Exactly what do you want me to do with this? All I can do is clean it up, apply some ointment and bandage it!" I told him, "That sounds like a good plan."
That was at least 25 years ago, and the feeling is just about back to "pre-router" condition, with just a bit of residual numbness.
Merry Christmas!!
Damn Roger and I thought I was bad. Don’t know which was worse but my vote goes to yours.,..joe
And it lives, the 2014 Ram that Joe, his wife and son was working on. Now all he has to do is reprogram the transmission to shift properly with the new cam and other parts
https://flic.kr/p/2o6wTXV
That's a very clean 2014!!
The Christmas tree is up, Merry Christmas everyone
And a Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!
I've got one of those!! My mother-in-law was a ceramics Ninja!! Merry Christmas!
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Mine is from my in-laws. Denise and I inherited it back in the early 90s after her dad passed away. It’s been sitting out in my living room for about the past 10 years year-round. I’ve been asked why, I just tell them we all need a little Christmas every day of the year. Stay warm Roger. I hear that you guys are going into a deep deep freeze sometime this week. Be careful and Merry Christmas to you too
Back at ya my friend……joe
Merry Christmas Joe! We used to have one of those ceramic trees with lights, think I stuck my youngest sister with it years ago, told her it must be some kind of heirloom!
Merry Christmas all of you
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone
This one will end up at the Joe, Jr’s house one day. Thankfully, he enjoys getting anything that came from his grandparents house. He truly loves to know the heritage of where his family came from. Makes me feel good to know that he wants to know who is family of the past was, and have things that came from them…..joe
My MIL made this small tree, about 10" high from the base, but also made a much larger one that has a base for the light socket, then three sections that fit together for a tree that's 12" around at the base, standing about 16" high. My daughter, our youngest of three, took it three or four years back. I think I put it up the first Christmas after Susan was gone, and my daughter took it for the next year. I'm not sure where this smaller one will find a home, but if neither of the boys move quick enough I expect that she will claim it too. It's indeed good when the kids care about the heritage, and where things started.
Merry Christmas, ya'll!
...and a Merry Christmas to you all and your families from Downunder.
I've got a lot of amusement and gleaned a lot of knowledge from all of you over the years, and I've thoroughly enjoyed it.
So there's good karma coming your ways from little Enzed.
Thanks for just being yourselves.
jb
happy holidays everyone.
you know .. there is nothing anywhere that tells you where the MAP sensor is located on a Suzuki XL7 3.6 engine .. dont bother telling me where it is on every other GM 3.6 engine .. that aint where it is on my engine .. i have Googled and you tubed it to death and the only info is that it costs about $ 250 in labor to get it done so it must be hidden under the intake or so .. i dont know that mine is bad but i want to look at it .. the only issue i have with my XL7 is that bank 2 runs very rich .. my right side tail pipe is sooty and the left side is clean .. i have true duel exhaust as i deleted the crossover muffler a few months ago .. i have no codes related to the MAP .. i have used every injector cleaner known to man with no noticeable improvements .. i have replaced all the oxygen sensors front and back of the converter ,, the thing runs great it just bugs me that the right exhaust is so sooty ..