• erp@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It appears the market has spoken, thus you must clearly upgrade your ring cutting equipment.

    That is, unless the poor sap acquired the titanium ring from Boeing or Airbus’ supplier. Then maybe you can use kindergarten stubby scissors.

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      Hospitals will generally have ring cutters like this:

      Picture of a pizza-cutter like implement with an arm underneath the serrated cutting wheel.

      They are hand powered and very cost effective for gold and silver rings. Diamond tipped cutters usually need something like a Dremel to power them. They look something like this:

      Picture of a ring cutter similar to the one above but it has an electric screwdriver like attachment to power the wheel..

      They are much more expensive compared to hand powered ones, and pose a higher risk to a patient so they would require additional training to use it, which is another extra cost.

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        Also, ummm, titanium gets hot. Like all metal gets hot when you cut it, that’s just how friction works.

        But titanium is gummy.

        When we cut steel it makes a nice clean chip until the tool is dull, then it’ll make ugly chips.

        When we cut aluminum or copper, we have to use tools with fewer teeth so they don’t get clogged up with chips. This is fine because these materials are so soft and we can run cutting speeds so high that having fewer teeth isn’t a big deal.

        But titanium is both gummy, in that it wants lots of space between cuts because it’ll clog up teeth, and very hard, in that it wants lots of teeth making smaller cuts.

        It’s also a shit conductor. Aluminum and copper will whisk away heat. Titanium gets hot and stays that way.

        So your titanium jewelry, wherever applied, that needs to be cut off of you, will need a diamond saw, which isn’t really a cutting tool, it’s an abrasive one. Meaning it works through aggressive, point blank friction.

        My point is if you smash your titanium cock ring on, it’s going to not only require a very uncomfortable proximity to a power tool to remove it, it’s going to absolutely burn the fuck out of your dick.

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          5 months ago

          Fascinating! However, the fire department (or whoever is your local IDR unit) will almost certainly run coolant while cutting a ring off of anyone.

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          5 months ago

          Thank you for the details! I find the different properties of metals fascinating but rarely have the time to read up on it (which isn’t made easier by having to first read up on and understand a bunch of terminology and underlying concepts, which my ADHD just doesn’t have the patience for), so comments like yours giving a bit of insight are perfect.

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        5 months ago

        Just want to add that we’re talking about a tool that can be used to remove rings stuck on any appendage, not just cocks.

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          5 months ago

          Yes! I should have clarified. Wedding rings getting stuck on old people’s fingers will be the main use case for those tools, meaning people will have to buy a lot of titanium cock rings before it’s cost effective for hospitals to have electric cutting tools as standard.

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            5 months ago

            I feel like dicks would be a less likely candidate as there should be other ways to encourage the trapped member to decrease in size before resorting to cutting implements in close proximity

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      5 months ago

      You know, it seems Boeing managed to become less reliable than Ilyushin.

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    5 months ago

    I’ve worked or volunteered for 4 different fire departments. Zero of them had any sort of diamond cutter anything that could be used for this.

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      5 months ago

      Well I think as it relates to fingers, precious metals are fine. Generally soft enough that cutting isn’t an issue.

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          I love that even after millennia of human society and culture, I still regularly run into comments that make me think, “Yeah, that’s the first time anyone has ever said that.”

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            5 months ago

            If the universe is truly infinite and as homogeneous as it appears to be, then an infinite amount of people had already said that, will say that and are saying it right now.

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              Infinite possibilities does not mean all possibilities. It is possible - even probable, in most cases - to have an infinite set which does not contain all possible members.

              As an example, the set of all even numbers and the set of all whole numbers are both infinite sets with completely different contents. Even accounting for the fact that the set of all whole numbers contains the entire set of all even numbers, the two will still differ by a factor of 50%.

              I think that Vsauce explains this concept a little better than I can as I am not a mathematician, I merely watch their content on the internet.

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          5 months ago

          Are you interested because of the cash, the cock ring, or both?

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      5 months ago

      Gold and silver are safe. Lead is dangerous for completely unrelated reasons. Cupric alloys are probably safe assuming you aren’t allergic. Speaking of allergic you can definitely do nickel if you’re completely not allergic to it. Aluminum should be safe.

      Under no circumstances should you try tungsten.

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      5 months ago

      Dude, just because the hospital can cut off softer materials doesn’t mean you want to end up at the hospital for them to do it. Just use silicone.

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        5 months ago

        It’s my kink though. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a saw revenge up to 8000 rpm as it heads for your junk.

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      5 months ago

      Not metallic and not sure about ‘alternative uses’ but ceramic is good for finger rings at least. It’s non-conductive, you can use a pliers or tap it hard with a hammer to shatter it if needed, and if it snags on something in a horrific accident scenario it’ll usually shatter before degloving or severing a finget

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    I’m call BS. Titanium isn’t really very strong (about the same as copper when pure, while specialist Ti alloys are about halfway between aluminium and generic steel). People use titanium when they want something metal which is pretty strong but very lightweight. As an aside, it has pretty meh ductility for a metal and would make a poor bulletproof material, so David Guetta got that wrong too

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    I saw this and was very confused. I was thinking, “well mine just has two balls that unscrew from either end and pull it out” then I realized they’re talking about a different ring for a cock

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    5 months ago

    At the risk of sounding like I have no idea what I’m talking about (because I don’t).

    Couldn’t you perform a surgery to clamp the main vein, and then drain the blood out of the cock?

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      We will only use local anaesthesia and you’ll have to watch.

      Unless that is your kink. Then you don’t get to watch.

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        Wait, so that is a thing that is possible to do though? I’d have thought that it would be very difficult, with the corpora cavernosa being so spongy and all…

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          I’m not a doctor. I was just joking. Should have been more clear

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            Oh no, I am aware of that. Just that it made me wonder if something like that is actually possible or not. Cause it might be…

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          I’m not a doctor and I have no idea what I’m talking about, but to my (very limited) understanding of the mechanics of it, it’s not that simple.

          You don’t get/stay erect because of the flow to your penis, sure, that’s an important part of the process, but the key to getting/staying hard is blocking flow out of the penis. In theory, again, I have no actual idea, I’m just speculating, you could go in and shunt the vein to force it to open up all the way to drain the blood, however, you may hit an obstacle in trying to do that, like a titanium cock ring.

          From the limited amount I know, it’s possible to drain the blood directly, but my understanding is that it’s not a very fun thing to try to do, because as soon as you lose the erection, it opens up vessels and more blood can flow in, so it turns into a bloodletting through your cock, and you have to essentially let the blood out faster than it can flow in, unless you cut off the arterial flow into the penis, which isn’t as simple as a single clamp. The arteries are also inside of you, so that’s also a problem. Fun times in the surgery bay? (Not really)

          The whole thing is far more complex than I really understand, so I might be way off. I’m no doctor and I’m certainly not a reproductive organ specialist (or any adjacent discipline). I’m certain that someone with far more time spent in school who earns way more than I do, can correct me on every point here, so I’ll stop.

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            Yeah, no, sounds about right… I guess the cavernosa have to be supplied by veins anyway so yeah. Defo not a fun procedure but was just wondering anatomy-wise if it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      No because the blood won’t leave the penis due to the pressure of the cock ring and cutting into the penis to relieve the swelling is likely to result in greater permanent damage than waiting for the FD and their diamond saw.