Recent content by Charles E Flynn

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    Now this is one expensive hammer!

    Thanks for your testimony in favor of the solid brass mallet. At the other end of the mallet hardness spectrum, I once had to use a mallet to assemble an expensive piece of furniture. The parts could not be damaged. The tool of choice was a wooden mallet with a urethane head, its blows...
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    Now this is one expensive hammer!

    The tool mentioned in the original posting weighs 15.1 lbs., and while a fine tool is not a representative example of the Wiha dead blow mallet line. The Wiha dead blow mallets are not hammers intended to drive nails. They are essentially demolition or disassembly tools, capable of precisely...
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    Now this is one expensive hammer!

    No, because you already have the right tools. The last time I checked, Apple used Wiha screwdrivers in their stores. I was told that they buy Wiha tools in such quantity that they cost Apple less than the junk at a big box store. Of course, that could be just a story invented for the...
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    Don't put up with splinters! Get one of these.

    If I recall correctly, the halogen light was used both on top of and from the side of the fingertip. It was still not possible to be certain whether we were seeing blood, rose thorn tip, or both.
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    Don't put up with splinters! Get one of these.

    Thanks for the explanation about transillumination. I do not recall the dermatologist using that term. He had a very small, very bright halogen light that he used before the surgery to mark the spot. I had a couple of small shots of novocaine in my fingertip, so I felt nothing when the biopsy...
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    Don't put up with splinters! Get one of these.

    Thank you for a most interesting follow-up. I will have to read about transillumination. The tip of the rose thorn was vertical as one looks down on the fingertip. It was no more than 1 or 2 mm in diameter, so with the spot brightly lit, the dermatologist put a tiny mark on the spot, and then...
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    Don't put up with splinters! Get one of these.

    I had the tip of a rose thorn go right through leather gardening gloves recommended by a horticultural society. The thorn tip broke off inside my fingertip. It was removed by a dermatologist, using a biopsy punch. One of the problems with such surgery is that the old blood below the surface of...
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