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--={Flyer}=-- wrote:

reaches
for his Dremel with one of those abrasive wheels mounted on it.

Gack!

I had to cut Dad's ring off because it was causing him pain. I used an
Xacto razor saw to get most of it, then cut through with tin snips. Worked
fine.

Tell your boss to try my way next time.

The suggested method direct from Red Cross First Aid training:
Get a spool of floss- pass about 12" under the ring from finger tip
towards wrist. Begin wrapping the finger with floss- make it tight
enough to compress the skin- spiral up the finger under the ring- tight
close-together coils of floss. Keep going up until you've wrapped to the
center of the 2 joints. DO NOT OVERLAP THE WRAPPINGS. When this is done,
grasp the 12" end hanging from the bottom of the ring and slowly begin
unwrapping by using the ring as a lever- the bottom edge of the floss
should always be touching the ring bottom. The ring will slowly spiral
off the finger.

Works every time (yes, I have used this method more than once) except if
the ring is crushed.

/vic
Then again, if I ever find the SOB that stole my dad's rings, fingers
are only the first thing I'll be clipping off.