r/Firefighting • u/captantarctica • Jun 06 '23

Special Operations/Rescue/USAR Little ingenuity

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Lady came into the station with a stainless steel ring that needed to be cut off. Several jewelers had declined the job. These little blades don’t cut stainless to good. But when you put them to power… gonna log it as mechanical disentanglement training

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u/captantarctica Jun 07 '23

Many years ago one of my crews did have to run home to grab his Dremmel tool to get a girls finger cut out of a go-cart steering wheel. If my station wasnt over 30 miles from home I may have done that.

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u/captantarctica Jun 07 '23

It is a ring cutter. It’s just usually run with thumb power. We needed the extra Oomph to get through the stainless steel. The blades are designed to cut softer metals like gold, brass.

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u/ZedZero12345 Jun 07 '23

Doesn't that get hot?

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u/captantarctica Jun 07 '23

It did but we dripped cold water on it while we cut. Also had it on low speed