[justanotherjpr]

Do you remove your wedding ring while wrenching? I told my wife I wanted something I could not bang, bust, or scratch. She got me a nice plain tungsten ring that rocks..but I was curious..do you married fellas pull your ring off or do you leave it on..and why?

[Jeffro06]

I leave mine on, always. I wear mechanics gloves...sometimes. If I was going to be working on something the ring could get caught on, thus taking my finger with it, I'd take it off. My wring has held up fine for 13 years....it does have a bit of JB Weld stuck to it right now...


As for why I leave it on....because I'm married, that's the best I've got.

[justanotherjpr]

I've heard some guys put tape around them they'll be working on something moving.

[BESRK]

I wear my 14K Gold Band all the time. If it happens to catch something and debride my finger of meat.. I have 9 more

[Mr_Harry]

I take mine off as I like my fingers.

I used to work on Aircraft in the Navy and always took it off.

[binski]

On. However, my ring is no longer round. It has multiple recurves in it where it likely saved my finger from getting crushed


binski

[Holder350]

Class ring wedding ring and watch all come off and go on a nice exhaust valve stem that I have attached to the side of my tool box.

I tell the missus that when I'm working on the cars I'm not the man she married.....I become more of a cursing sailor

[ZeroGravity]

Originally Posted by Holder350

Class ring wedding ring and watch all come off and go on a nice exhaust valve stem that I have attached to the side of my tool box.

I tell the missus that when I'm working on the cars I'm not the man she married.....I become more of a cursing sailor

Huh. That's usually how it plays out when I go out drinking.

[Jerry Bransford]

When I was in school years ago and we had classes where we were working on mechanical and electrical/electronic gizmos, we were always warned to remove our rings & watches. And for very good reasons, which the Air Force later drummed into me too once I joined.

If your ring were to come across a voltage and short it to ground, your ring would INSTANTLY get hot from the short circuit it created and in some cases, that has blown a finger off or at least severely damaged it. Yes the USAF showed me pictures of that to reinforce that fact. Rings are extremely good conductors of electricity and because they are big in their size, can conduct a lot of amps to ground which is kind of like how welding works.

Then on the non-electrical side of problems, your ring can hook onto something as you fall back and that is well known to have ripped more than a few fingers apart, take the entire finger off, or just remove the meat from the bone and leave you with a finger that looks straight out of a horror movie. Yes the USAF showed me pictures of that too.

To this day, I ALWAYS remove my ring & watch while working on anything electrical, and much of the time when doing minor mechanical work. If it's major heavy mechanical work, my ring & watch comes off then as well.

To this day, 40 years later, I still remember my college instructors and USAF instructors telling us to remove our rings & watches. They'd yell out "Rings and Watches" whenever we'd start working on a project. In fact if you were caught working on something while wearing either, we got in trouble in both college and the USAF. Seriously, they can cause serious injuries and it's not a good thing to wear them.

Just think about accidentally placing your ring between your Jeep's + battery terminal and the tub if your finger was still inside.

How are these photos for you? Kind of like what they used to show us when I was in the Air Force.





Rings & watches guys!

[NaeKid]

Rings, watches, chains - long hair - everything got removed when I pulled wrenches. I didn't always do that and I had re-shaped several fairly expensive rings while pulling wrenches - not even crushing the ring between two objects.

I have electrocuted myself via wrist-chains (10g stainless steel chain-loops) and have "hung" myself by my arm a few times as well. Neck-chains haven't caused me trouble - but - I have quit wearing those too.

[Roadymi]

I've worked in, on, and around machinery all of my life. Farming for most of it. When I got married 17 years ago I told my city born wife that I preferred not to wear my band because I knew myself well enough to know that if I was constantly removing it I would lose it. That didn't go over so well. After a month or so I went to the house to have her help me remove it because it was rather flattened and wouldn't slip over my knuckle. Her comment was.....I'll just place this in my jewelery box, I guess your finger is more important than wearing the ring." I havn't worn it since and we are just as happily married now as ever.

[mylt1]

just got married sat but i still take my ring off when i do anything. its tungsten so it wont deform it will just shatter after so much pressure so im not worried about that but i work as a fire fighter and there is WAY to much for it to get hung up in. told her that when i go to work the ring comes off. took it off today for an ambulance call. i have a friend that gloved his finger when he jumped off a fire truck. it was NOT pleasant. i dont want the same to happen to me. i like my fingers to much.

[thantos858]

A ring like tungsten, titanium do not shatter they flatten and cannot be removed with the medical tools. They normally have to remove the finger to get them off. To expand on what jerry said gold rings will melt to your finger and do way more damage than you think. My dad worked with a guy that got zapped at the phone company by the lines he no longer had a working finger and a scar that went down to the bone. I learned the hard way with my ring by making a circuit in a B-box between 2 lines while they got a phone call. Yes I have a really larger ring finger and ring to go with it. I don't wear my wedding band anymore unless we go out to dinner some place nice. You need all your fingers for other activities that are fun for both of you just remind her of that.

[5-90]

Titanium ring - yeah, I wear it (even though I know better.)

I don't wear my watch unless I'm wrenching somewhere quick. The only thing I wear around my neck is my dog tags - and that chain breaks easily (and can be flipped around back if I'm worried, but it's usually inside my shirt anyhow.)

I'm left-handed, but can work right. Whenever I'm doing electrical work (AC or DC,) I'll work one-handed. When it's live, I'll do it right-handed, and grab the back of my belt with my left hand. Old electrician's trick - if you get bit, it keeps your heart out of the circuit. You can have it go in and out the same hand, or you can have it go in your hand and go out your feet - take your pick (although my safety toes are composite vice steel - for the same reason.)

If I'm going to be working on something intricate, I'll take my ring off and put it in my pocket or leave it on the dresser, but I don't usually. I've never had it snag, catch me up, or get me zapped - my life has been about risk assessment, and I won't put myself in harm's way unless I'm reasonably sure I can get back out (I'm not always right, but I'm right far more often than I am wrong.)

My titanium ring is mildly clobbered as a result (it's a simple 8m/m band with some scratches on it,) but I'd like to get a tungsten "dress" ring one of these days. My wife is a crow - she likes sparkly things. I'm more subdued. I still have the gold ring I got when we exchanged rings initially - the tungsten is a "five-year" ring. We'll have to delay exchanging "ten-year" rings for a bit, but I want a tungsten ring when we do (I favour industrial metals. I may make my own fifteen-year ring out of brass...)

[TJDaveX]

Due to the nature of my work, (heavy construction equiptment driver/operator) I do not wear mine at work. I put it on when I get home. Take it off when working on Jeep. Put it on when the wife and I go out. Take it off when I go out with my buddies for a couple drinks. What? Yes, my wife agrees with me on this one... Chicks are wierd.... A guy in a bar wearing a ring, without a woman with him, for some reason is a chick magnet. If I'm not wearing my ring, I am just like all the other schmoes in there desperate for some action.