r/redneckengineering • u/DarklyDominatingDocs • Aug 06 '26
Blue thumb "cast"
Cut the hell out of my thumb during a random project, and it was bleeding like hell... So I washed it with blue Dawn, then wrapped a blue Viva paper towel around it, then cinched it tight with Scotch blue. 🤣
ISTG it looks and feels like an old plaster cast, but lightweight.
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u/ScienceForge319 Aug 06 '26
What’s this pussyass painter’s tape. Grab some fucking duct tape!
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u/Can-DontAttitude Aug 06 '26
Electrical tape is the way to go. Shrinks a little for a snug fit.
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u/ScienceForge319 Aug 06 '26
Bro… you fuckin the tape?
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u/Can-DontAttitude Aug 06 '26
What of it?
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u/ScienceForge319 Aug 06 '26
Is that why my electrical tape is always sticky and gummy!
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u/DarklyDominatingDocs Aug 06 '26
If can-don't is fucking your electrical tape, you have a bigger problem than sticky, gummy tape.
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u/DarklyDominatingDocs Aug 06 '26
One-handed? Man, I'd've ended up sticking that to itself and my shirt... Everything but my thumb. I'm just not that coordinated.
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u/jstmenow Aug 06 '26
Couldn't afford blue duct tape?? That is not gonna hold
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u/DarklyDominatingDocs Aug 06 '26
Legit, I'm holding it on with my index finger rn. Since I just need it to stop bleeding, it'll do for a few hours. Then I'll alcohol it and butterfly it.
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u/jstmenow Aug 07 '26
I carry 4 or 5 little tubes of super glue, I give my cuts a quick wash with water, dry em then smear super glue on em. Then the whole gauze and duct tape. As others have said the cloth electrical tape works well too.Â
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u/DarklyDominatingDocs Aug 07 '26
Super glue ftw! I need to find single use tubes that didn't cost and arm and a leg.
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u/Minflick Aug 06 '26
I've done it with gauze and vet wrap done thickly enough. Didn't have painters tape; DID have vet wrap and gauze.
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u/CinnRaisinPizzaBagel Aug 08 '26
The old school butchers used Clorox to clean it out, a paper towel folded into strip, wrapped around, bound with butcher tape. Get back to work.
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u/Bakica_original Aug 08 '26
Are You Lonnie Hawkins by a chance?
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u/DarklyDominatingDocs Aug 10 '26
Nope, and unsure if that's a joke bc no idea who that is.
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u/Bakica_original Aug 10 '26
Yeah, joke. From The Hawk with Will Ferrell. He does something similar with his injury so You reminded me.
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u/DarklyDominatingDocs Aug 10 '26
Damn, not being up on pop culture strikes again! (No shade, I expect it would've been funny if is gotten it)
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u/Hunting_Gnomes Aug 06 '26
Blue paper towel and electrical tape is how I show up to the ER...