What dumb thing did you do today?

[shovelmike]

Ouch. Heat a large sewing needle to red hot and poke a hole in your nail to let the blood out. It will relieve the pressure and pain.

Not much to do other than the above, or use a small drill bit turned by your fingers. Just tape it to the next time. I broke a big toe thirty years ago trying to get a cantankerous dirt bike to start, jumped on the Kickstarter good and hard, and snagged it on the footpeg. It has arthritis in it something terrible.
I was wearing heavy boots, I hate to think of the outcome had I been in flip-flops.

 

[poncho62]

Ouch. Heat a large sewing needle to red hot and poke a hole in your nail to let the blood out. It will relieve the pressure and pain.

I take an x-acto knife with a sharp tip....Put it on the nail and spin it until it goes through.....The release of the blood is also as good as the big "O".......OK, not quite

 

[Jstpssng]

i know people who have done that too so i usually wear tennis shoes. but i was just out for my morning coffee and cigarette and wanted to pull off the tiller to assess the damage. done it many times before without issue, but it was stuck on something i couldn't see.

I think that many of us have done similar... either not quite properly dressed or in that one pair of jeans which we didn't want a grease stain on.

The heated needle or paper clip really does work best despite how it sounds. It melts its way through so you aren't enduring the extra agony of drilling or gouging through the fingernail. You will lose that nail either way, however.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Well...here's my dumb story for today. I clean out horse stable and starts to rain. Then I see garage front gutter is clogged so I fix that. By now my T shirt is soaked, but I have a heat gun in shop. Works great until it singes white shirt brown. What little hair I have left is soaked so heat gun dries then singes that.
When I go in the house smelling like horse poop with singed hair...if my wife asks "what happened to you"... I'm not responsible for what happens next.
Maybe it will grow back?
Tip: Don't use heat gun for hair dryer!

 

[Citydude]

that sounds absolutely terrifying to me.

Well, yes,yes it does but it is worth the fright. You have to let the pressure off that nail. It will feel 100 times better....

 

[k0ua]

Ouch. Heat a large sewing needle to red hot and poke a hole in your nail to let the blood out. It will relieve the pressure and pain.

Or you can use your dremel with a very small drill bit in it. Same idea.

 

[Citydude]

Or you can use your dremel with a very small drill bit in it. Same idea.

A drill sounds terrifying to me vs the hot poker

 

[k0ua]

that sounds absolutely terrifying to me.

The absolute joy you will feel when it breaks thru will make it all worth it. Trust us on this..

 

[k0ua]

A drill sounds terrifying to me vs the hot poker

The hot needle, the very tiny bit, the exacto knife point are all about the same, they all hurt a little by putting pressure on the nail, and it all will feel so good when it breaks thru.

 

[4570Man]

I’ve never had any luck with the drilling/melting a hole idea. Maybe if you did it right away it would but later by this point the blood is dried.