| ▲ | monster_truck 8 hours ago |
| A tungsten wedding ring is a pretty silly/unsafe thing to have. I'll readily admit it's cool but I like my fingers too much to worry about degloving one of them. That said using it as an example of or point of comparison for most anything is pretty unrealistic. Similarly I am not willing to wrap a LiPo battery around one of my fingers. Absolutely not. I suspect this is in part why we have not seen more smartwatch bands doing the same. |
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| ▲ | dpark 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Why would a tungsten band increase the chances of degloving your finger? A tungsten band is a lot harder than a gold band. But a gold band is already way harder than your flesh. Jimmy Fallon was wearing a traditional platinum band when he nearly lost his finger. If you want to reduce your risk, you should either not wear a ring or wear a silicone band. |
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| ▲ | kenniskrag 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In a hospital, they may need to remove the ring quickly for example, if your finger was injured and begins to swell. | | |
| ▲ | happyopossum 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | In a hospital setting nobody will be degloving your finger - this is a common situation, and they have pliers that will crack/shatter the tungsten for removal. | | |
| ▲ | phyzome 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm guessing that strongly depends on how big the hospital is. I know someone who lives out in the boonies and it's amazing what isn't on hand. |
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| ▲ | bluGill 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Steel toed work boots are almost never allowed to have a steel toe anymore. It is always plastic which is just as strong but it shatters when it breaks so they don't have to uncrush that once they get whatever fell on your toes off. There are some rare exceptions for specific jobs, see OSHA (or your country equivalent) for the exact rules that apply to you. | | |
| ▲ | Clent 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This isn't remotely true. Steel is absolutely still allowed. The steel toe is designed to collapse without crushing the toe. When that happens, the boot needs to be replaced. There are composites which are fiber based but those aren't labelled as steel toes, they aren't designed to shatter and it's not plastic. | | |
| ▲ | bluGill 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Osha allows steel where plastic (fiber is a plastic) has issues. However they have complex rules and none of the industries I work with will allow steel. | | |
| ▲ | tredre3 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I've been wearing them all my life all over North America. Very few industries require metal-free footwear. Composite toes (since we're getting carried away with various terms, that's the actual term and fabrication method, which is fiber mesh and epoxy) still have downsides. Those don't apply if you're a white collar guy and just need them because of regulations. But if you're an actual worker that relies on them to save your toes, CT has much worse puncture resistance than ST. So it's trivial to puncture with a framing nail gun or cut through it if you rest a board on your toe, for example. They also shatter when something heavy falls on them. If the thing bounces and you're quick enough to pull your foot, then great. If not, the second bounce will be shattering your toes and your boot will be filled with fleshy composite soup that is impossible to save. A steel toe in that situation will just bend and odds are good that your foot will be salvageable. |
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| ▲ | dpark 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Tungsten also shatters. It doesn’t crush. That’s actually how a tungsten ring that’s stuck is removed. You break it with a vice. |
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| ▲ | marssaxman 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I loved my first tungsten wedding ring so much I got another one when I remarried. It has a really satisfying feeling of solidity. Your safety concern does not trouble me at all: yes, it's a very hard metal, but it's brittle. You can't cut a stuck tungsten ring loose the way you can a gold ring, but you can easily break it, using a hammer or a pair of vice-grips. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y2gzBI-2amA My ring has a "comfort fit" profile, and it slips off so smoothly I can't imagine why this would ever be necessary. |
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| ▲ | dreamcompiler 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Amen. As an EMT/Firefighter you'll never catch me wearing a ring made of any kind of metal. I have seen and dealt with some pretty horrific things. Degloving is the only traumatic injury that makes me queasy to think about. |
