Sore ring

bobbyjoe · 10-10-2005 12:01pm #1

I put my girlfriends ring on at the weekend and can't get it off.
Tried soap, vaseline and even olive oil.
Any tricks to get it off?
Am I better off soaking my hand in hot or cold water?
Suggestions appreciated.....

Ta

danniemcq · 10-10-2005 12:07pm

Fairy Liquid??? or go to your local garage they should be able to sort ya out with lube there. why does that sound so dirty...

xzanti · 10-10-2005 12:08pm

put ice on the finger cause it will shrink slightely or just place her hand in the freezer and then have a go with the soap...

Pinx · 10-10-2005 12:09pm

bobbyjoe wrote:

I put my girlfriends ring on at the weekend and can't get it off.
Tried soap, vaseline and even olive oil.
Any tricks to get it off?
Am I better off soaking my hand in hot or cold water?
Suggestions appreciated.....

Ta

Hey Bobbyjoe - I've found washing my hands with water and washing up liquid works? The warmer your hand is, the more your finger will swell, so I'd advise cold water. However, metal contracts when cooled as well, so the ring will also be tighter. Maybe you could try relaxing, soaking hand in cold water, then wrapping a facecloth (soaked in warm water) around the ring. Keep calm and hopefully it'll loosen up!

seamus · 10-10-2005 12:09pm

Cool your hands down.

Serbian · 10-10-2005 12:11pm

xzanti wrote:

just place her hand in the freezer

The ring is stuck on his hand so I don't think putting his girlfriend's hand in the freezer will do any good. Unless he's Hannibal Lector...

Illegal Alien · 10-10-2005 12:11pm

Such dissapointing content for such a promising thread title. :rolleyes:

Oriel · 10-10-2005 12:13pm

At first I thought this thread should have been in PI...

fjon · 10-10-2005 12:13pm

Illegal Alien wrote:

Such disappointing content for such a promising thread title. :rolleyes:

Lol - I was expecting a thread about hemorrhoids

Siogfinsceal · 10-10-2005 12:14pm

you need your hand to be a bit cold and you need to relax to get it off. Go outside in the cold and then put some wd40 on your hand (great stuff that) that should do the trick and relax if it went on it can come off. I did the same thing once in a shop and had to buy the damn ring!

BigEejit · 10-10-2005 12:17pm

Illegal Alien wrote:

Such dissapointing content for such a promising thread title. :rolleyes:

hehe .. my very thought .. I was thinking it was either something to do with curries or ... er .. somthing else

danniemcq · 10-10-2005 12:18pm

Siogfinsceal wrote:

I did the same thing once in a shop and had to buy the damn ring!

was it at least a nice ring?

back on topic kinda,,, why were you wearing her ring in the first place???

Kain · 10-10-2005 12:47pm

1. Push the ring all the way up the finger
2. Get a long peice of thread and starting at the around the middle of the finger, wrap the thread around the figner going up towards the ring.
3. When you have enought thread wraped around the finger, place the end of the thread through the ring.
4. Unwrap the thread from the top down.

This should get the ring off, it worked for me when i was younger and the ring on my finger got to small to take off.
However its going to hurt like HELL, but it should work, enjoy

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KTRIC · 10-10-2005 12:58pm

Illegal Alien wrote:

Such dissapointing content for such a promising thread title. :rolleyes:

Get your girlfriend to lube up your ring. You really don't want to start trying to force a dry ring, it could cause some serious damage. When it's nice and lubed up, get her to give it a good yank.

Maccattack · 10-10-2005 1:04pm

a hacksaw is yer only man.

Winters · 10-10-2005 1:40pm

Ky?

bobbyjoe · 10-10-2005 1:50pm

Thanks for the advice.
Will try the cold water thing when I get home at work at the mo with a big silver ring on looks dodgy.
Dunno how it got there just woke up Saturday morning with my girlfriends ring lodged tight over my finger. Tried pulling is back and forth alot but would't come off.

Scraggs · 10-10-2005 3:47pm

doesnt metal expand with heat??? put hands under hot tap with lots of washing up liquid/other liquid soap lather up and c what happens...
hope it works for ya!!!

Mr. Presentable · 10-10-2005 3:54pm

Found this on a How-To:

"My finger was swollen due to medication I was taking, and the finger kept swelling and nothing worked. I was out of town and didn't want my ring cut. As a last resort I held my arm and hand over my head pointing straight up, with ice on the finger, for a half hour before using a liquid soap on my finger (which I had to keep over my head or the finger would swell again). Finally the ring came off."

Also This:

1. Soak your hand in ice-cold water if it is swollen. Wait 5 to 10 minutes for the swelling to recede.

2. Apply lubricant around the ring and up the length of your finger. Hand lotion, dishwashing liquid or olive oil will do the trick.

3. Twist the ring as you slowly work it up and over the knuckle. You may need to apply some force to get it over the first knuckle. Make sure to twist, not tug.

4. If the ring still won't budge, visit a doctor to have it removed.

Ann Elk · 10-10-2005 3:59pm

do shut up

bigsac · 10-10-2005 4:14pm

do shut up.

Rb · 10-10-2005 4:40pm

^ Now that's just OTT :rolleyes:

Nightwish · 10-10-2005 4:58pm

cold water, not hot as the heat makes your fingers swell. Try wet wipes or washing up liquid to lubricate your finger. Had something kinda similar happen to me before, but it was a flask, not a ring stuck on my finger and I had to go to hospital to get it removed

JackKelly · 10-10-2005 7:36pm

lol at the title. I was expecting something else.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-10-2005 8:50pm

Lots of warm soapy water so your fingers wrinkle.
and/or
get some thread and wrap it around your finger (constricts it) and take the end under the ring so as you unwind the thread the ring slids off your finger.

Lex_Diamonds · 10-10-2005 9:43pm

Go to Romania and walk around for five minutes.

bobbyjoe · 11-10-2005 11:42am

Thanks for the help.
Tried them all but no joy.
Finger was all swollen this morning so went to the hardware shop and got it cut off (the ring I mean).
Have to buy her a new one now its silver feeeecccckkkkk

Kêrmêttê · 11-10-2005 11:50am

Silver isn't very expensive. It shouldn't cost you too much to have the ring replaced.

lostexpectation · 11-10-2005 12:00pm

can you recycle any of the silver or partly silver bits?

how xactly did you cut it off, (so we can visualise you grimacing and counting your digits afterwards)

Nimrod's Son · 11-10-2005 1:19pm

bobbyjoe wrote:

Thanks for the help.
Tried them all but no joy.
Finger was all swollen this morning so went to the hardware shop and got it cut off (the ring I mean).
Have to buy her a new one now its silver feeeecccckkkkk

Unlucky, you should have persevered. Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I put on a ring I hadn't worn in years and years. Tried to get it off the next morning but no joy and my finger had swollen like a bastard. Later on that day, I was washing my hands and it slipped off nicely with the aid of a little bit of soap. Didn't have to get the ring or my finger cut off!

azezil · 11-10-2005 5:36pm

danniemcq · 11-10-2005 10:30pm

bobbyjoe wrote:

Dunno how it got there just woke up Saturday morning with my girlfriends ring lodged tight over my finger.

WhiteWashMan · 12-10-2005 9:15am

unfair, its the bulgarians that steal everything...
removed due to reported post.

boneless · 12-10-2005 6:52pm

Illegal Alien wrote:

Such dissapointing content for such a promising thread title. :rolleyes:

Yes... I was looking forward to it too...

bobbyjoe · 13-10-2005 9:29am

lostexpectation wrote:

can you recycle any of the silver or partly silver bits?

how xactly did you cut it off, (so we can visualise you grimacing and counting your digits afterwards)

Have the bits maybe I could melt it down make a new one.
Guy in hardware shop used a small garden shears he could get the tip under the ring and start snipping.

He said he'd done it three times before.

Ann Elk · 13-10-2005 9:38am

Sorry WhitewashMan but......

bobbyjoe wrote:

Guy in hardware shop... could get the tip under the ring and start.... He said he'd done it three times before.

(how's a guy supposed to resist this!!!!)

LegacyUser · 13-10-2005 9:41am

is the ring still attached to your finger?

Tar.Aldarion · 13-10-2005 9:44am

bobbyjoe wrote:

I put my girlfriends ring on at the weekend and can't get it off.
Tried soap, vaseline and even olive oil.
Any tricks to get it off?
Am I better off soaking my hand in hot or cold water?
Suggestions appreciated.....

Ta

Ah you had to have it cut off,hard luck...what is it with people and putting on girls rings...i'm a victum of it myself....no matter how hard it is to get it off I seem to keep doing it...dunno what I am thinking.....'look a ring....it's hers...surely it won't fit...or will it?' (:
You are lucky that ring didn't mean a lot to her because a lot of the time they have a special meaning to people and they wouldn't let you cut it off.

bobbyjoe · 13-10-2005 9:44am

Rings off.
Why can't anyone mentions rings or lubrication without all the
in your end o's?

Ann Elk · 13-10-2005 9:48am

Just the thread title - that's all. I do assume that you picked the title with this in mind - afterall, last time I checked, rings can't feel pain. "sore finger" would have been better, no?

LegacyUser · 13-10-2005 9:55am

bobbyjoe wrote:

Rings off.
Why can't anyone mentions rings or lubrication without all the
in your end o's?

guess they were hoping it was an anal sex thread.

bobbyjoe · 13-10-2005 9:58am

You got me!

LegacyUser · 13-10-2005 11:36am

you get your handle from evil dead 2 dude?

Sore ring

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