Manly bandages

So c'mon, how many of us have used the real thing?

Duct tape bandages

I usually use blue shop towels wrapped around the leaking component, personally.

I have a box of those. In a pinch, I prefer electrical tape over duct tape.

wife bought me those.. never used them.. just for looks..

I like electrical tape for a bandage aas well.

I've had to make office band aids before (there were no real band-aids available at the time). Scotch tape and a little folded piece of paper towel. All that because the document tray company can't file down the razor-sharp edges those things come with.

Keith wrote: So c'mon, how many of us have used the real thing? Duct tape bandages I usually use blue shop towels wrapped around the leaking component, personally.

So it's basically a regular band-aid that just looks like duct tape? How manly is that? Either go with the real stuff or just let the blood drip.

Another electrical tape bandage fan. TP or paper towels as wadding, depending on leakage flow.

I favor super glue for a bandage. Holds the cut closed and is damn hard to take off

Mandaids!

thatsnowinnebago wrote: I favor super glue for a bandage. Holds the cut closed and is damn hard to take off

Get the gel, let it set for a few minutes, and get back to work.

My wife came home with a box of these and then weirds out when I put one on a boo boo.

http://www.medibadge.com/Batman_Band-Aids_P4107C48.cfm?UserID=799523&jsessionid=d03020cdc166$BFA$D5$

I've got some that look like strips of bacon. kinda neat, but then people think you're more screwed up than you actually are..as they look like big nasty scabs.

Bacon bandages. 'Bacondages'.

I'm the electrical tape/paper towel type myself, not as hard to get the glue off.

ummm baaacon

bandages? we don't need no stinkin bandages.

I'm generally more concerned about staining whatever I'm working on, so any old rag will usually do.

Is that manly or stupid? Don't answer that.

914Driver, I use Incredibles bandaids when I need something more permanent than a strip of blue towel wrapped around a finger. Mmm Elastigirl!

I am buying a set of these!

I've never used duct tape. I've used super glue but it left a nasty scar.

Last major cut (angle grinder cutting wheel on knuckle), It was too open for any of the above. Used Zip ties at the base of the finger to stop bleeding for 10 minutes, put regular band aid on and then continued with the cutting and welding. If still bleeding after cut zip, apply another and repeat. Took 2 tries and finally stopped. Also wore Nitrile gloves over the Zip tie.

I have used actual duct tape as well as super glue to close up wounds.

larger heat shrink tubing (not so good), rubber hose wrap(better,) crazy glue is the best though... cut the tip of my finger open (mostly off) a few years ago, and couldnt get the bleeding to stop, finally went to the hospital and they crazy glued it. when i got the $400 bill and questioned the $180 dose of crazy glue, the reply?? "Oh, its medical grade.... " ugh.. looked like the store grade stuff to me... i once made a finger cast out of one of those cheap exhaust repair kits, it didnt last too long though and i went back to a popsicle stick and duct tape...

Super Glue was originally developed for surgical purposes.

And don't get the "medical" version; it flexes a lot more. The general purpose stuff dries fast and hard. It'll seem like it will never come off, but as soon as the cut heals/dead skin peels off, the glue will come with it.

When I've tried to use super glue on wounds all I get is superglue in the wound, where it hurts like heck. It burns going in, and then lays there life a plastic knife.

Salanis wrote: Super Glue was originally developed for surgical purposes.

Which is why skin is about the only thing it will actually bond. It never bonds the components you are actually trying to repair or build ---- well, sometimes, it bonds those components to your fingers . . .

I had a (thankfully small) bottle of superglue burst on me as i was working on some models. Couldn't move my left hand for about 6 hours til i was able to scrub enough of it off with a scrub sponge. Luckily I'm right handed, or my sex life might have been seriously effected!