Splinter extraction on the cheap

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Splinter extraction on the cheap

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Just a reminder that if you pick of a splinter in the workshop (as I have) you can make a paste from Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom salts) & apply it under a plaster or poultice to draw the thing out. Takes a couple of days they say.
I tried the sideways scrape with a blade with no success but fibreglass is hard to get out.
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This may say something bad about my psyche, but I read that title as 'sphincter extraction'...
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Trust you to lower the tone ;)

Picked up the Daihatsu flywheel without gloves and....ouch! :(
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