Has this made the rounds here yet? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: janoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2016, 08:23:16 pm
content: Good one!

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 25, 2016, 01:29:44 am
content: I want one.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2016, 07:30:45 am
content: I think I might rather smell chicken than sulfur on some occasions, tiny enclosures are a major pain.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2016, 07:42:13 am
content: Having had a medical version of a Weller soldering iron stuffed up my nose to cauterise the skin, I can say the smell is not of chicken. Its pork.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2016, 07:54:06 am
content: Quote from: coppice on March 25, 2016, 07:42:13 amYeeesh, what was the reason?

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2016, 08:16:37 am
content: Quote from: XOIIO on March 25, 2016, 07:54:06 amI don't know it things have changed, but 40 years ago it was a standard treatment for people getting daily nosebleeds. It worked extremely well, and I never needed further treatment. The nose bleeds because blood vessels are so close ot the surface that the blood keeps breaking through. Burn the skin gently, and a month later it has regrown much thicker. The doctor just stuck cocaine paste in my nose for 5 minutes and then used a Weller iron (the 1970s standard blue one) with a special wide flat bit.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2016, 09:03:32 am
content: Quote from: coppice on March 25, 2016, 08:16:37 amAh, I figured it was more recent, I knew it had been used n the past but I figure that we would have better methods around now.

author: cimmo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2016, 11:41:16 pm
content: Quote from: XOIIO on March 25, 2016, 09:03:32 amA silver nitrate swab on a stick is usually used now as a nasal cautery.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 28, 2016, 03:25:10 am
content: Quote from: coppice on March 25, 2016, 08:16:37 am

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2016, 06:39:15 pm
content: Quote from: coppice on March 25, 2016, 08:16:37 amThat reminds me of when I used a soldering iron to remove a wart from my finger. It had been bothering me for ages and both the over the counter and prescription treatments failed, so I burned the little bugger with a soldering iron, until I could no longer take the pain. It worked really well. A blister formed and the wart fell off within week or so, never to return.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2016, 04:14:22 am
content: Quote from: cimmo on March 27, 2016, 11:41:16 pmInteresting. A lot of people need treatment for frequent nosebleeds. You'd think that if something as simple as a silver nitrate swab works, people would have figured it out long before the 1970s.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 29, 2016, 05:44:15 am
content: Quote from: coppice on March 29, 2016, 04:14:22 amMaybe Coppice meant "doctor" not doctor. Still, if it was effective ;-)