Carbon fiber slivers
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Printed Date: 24 Apr 2024 at 3:26pm
Topic: Carbon fiber slivers
Posted By: dave
Subject: Carbon fiber slivers
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2008 at 1:28pm
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How in the world do you get carbon fiber slivers out of your fingers? I have a Werner carbon paddle and it seems to shed slivers occasionally and I cant get them out of my fingers! ------------- Nomad |
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Posted By: septimus prime
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2008 at 3:44pm
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1. heat fingers in furnace until carbon turns to graphite.
2. draw pretty pictures with fingers unitl you run out of lead. ------------- Jon Shell Bee |
Posted By: franzhorner
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2008 at 5:53pm
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The key is to stop getting them. They work out after time. I think they eventually grow out. It might be good for you! A little wax might help on the paddle. There was recently a discussion about this on the Idaho white water yahoo group. These people were getting them from carbon fiberglass oars....
As a kid working in my Dad's cabinet shop i used to constantly have splinters...white oak was the worse!! Franz ------------- MORE RAIN PLEASE |
Posted By: 14kayaking2
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2008 at 8:32pm
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Just rub your hands on the paddle some more. then you won't notice the first. Maybe getting a new paddle... or in reality, a little wax. truthfully, you dig em out with a pin and razor blade if they are that uncomfortable. If its fress I have heard some people can get small stuff out with drawing salve... but I just dig at it. or leave it in to come out. I once had a bunch of cactus in me for about 6 months. man it was nice when they finally came out. ------------- "We are only boaters between swims" Matty |
Posted By: water wacko
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2008 at 10:57am
Waking up with cold sweats thinking about that scary shard of a paddle blade you use laying cold and silent in the garage?  Smoking more pot these days just to take the edge off?  Scared your back-deck roll might remove part of your face because of
that paddle blade?  Have you developed night terrors and are now in
counseling due to that barbed hook you use to get yourself down river?  Buy a foam core paddle and end the nasty sliver nightmare. 
------------- "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~Howard Thurman |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2008 at 1:12pm
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It is a new paddle! Duh! ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: 14kayaking2
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2008 at 2:27pm
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good one W-wacko. I love getting my face removed by paddles.
------------- "We are only boaters between swims" Matty |
Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2008 at 9:54am
I heard soaking your hands in palm-olive works wonder's for your hands and nails. You can also get that pile of dishes out of your sink at the same time ! ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |
Posted By: hugo
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2008 at 10:09am
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Don't you have to use the paddle before you can get the slivers... what were you doing with that thing in your bedroom?
------------- suck it |
Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 10:55am
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I think that thing in the bed room was .....YOUR MOM !! ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |
Sorry could'nt resist. It could have been anyone's mom !
Posted By: 14kayaking2
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 8:03pm
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Now that's funny. Sorry.... No harm intended, but that was some funny stuff ------------- "We are only boaters between swims" Matty |
Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 10:00pm
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I fail to see the humor in all this and I think Hugo is a moron.
On a lighter note, you will all be happy to know that all my slivers have worked their way out and I have now coated my shaft with some great wax that Tobin gave me. Tobin reaaly knows what works on a guys shaft! ------------- Nomad |
Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2008 at 9:30am
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Tobin does know his shit !!! Are you sure it's wax ? I leave the door open for the next post...... Good to hear the slivers are out. ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |
Posted By: justin
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2008 at 12:39pm
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maybe that's how he really hurt his shoulder. |
Posted By: Travisimo
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2008 at 1:22pm
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A vernier caliper is the best set of tweezers in the world, I learned this from a machinist. They are so super sharp at the tip they grab better than anything else.
You can measure small stuff very accurately with them too!
They are about $6 at harbor freight. I use them and a needle to dig out real small slivers of metal, carbon fiber, fiberglass, wood and anything else I wind up jabbing into myself. ------------- H2O please |
Posted By: 14kayaking2
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2008 at 3:20pm
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the humor is on what he was doing with his carbon fiber paddle in the bedroom? sorry I thought it funny... guess I am just a little twisted. I usually don't go for the sophomoric jokes but this one was good.
------------- "We are only boaters between swims" Matty |
Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2008 at 6:19pm
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Hey, that was pre-school humor these day's !! ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |