Broken Finger Tungsten Ring

Tungsten rings are quick and easy to remove from your finger in case of medical emergency easier than gold.

Broken finger tungsten ring.

The most common method of removing tungsten rings from your finger is by using a pair of vice grips. A fracture can occur in any of the phalanges. A broken or fractured finger occurs when one or more of these bones breaks. A full video tutorial on the proper removal of tungsten rings can be found here.

Now you know tungsten rings can break and you understand why they can break. Listen nobody is perfect. Listen nobody is perfect. Once again last week i slapped my hand down on my desk at work and boom broken again.

A break is usually the result of an injury to the hand. So i either get a new ring or figure out how to make this. The entire process should take less than 30 seconds to complete. I was showing how to slide down a flight of stairs and ended up showing how to break a ring.

Tungsten carbide rings are made of the hardest metal on earth. Take care not to slide the cracked ring up and down your finger. Normally it might not be a big deal to get it resized except that my ring is made out of tungsten carbide. After losing a lot of weight my wedding ring would no longer stay on my finger.

How to fix a loose ring with tape and clear fingernail polish. If you throw your hands up at a super bowl party and your ring goes flying across the room and out a tenth floor window it s going to shatter when it hits the pavement below. The vice grips apply enough pressure that the tungsten ring fractures safely. I took it off my finger to wash my hands and it dropped on the tile floor in the kitchen shattered again.

I replaced that band with a tungsten carbide band with three diamonds in it. Look at the detail if you have purchased a tungsten ring with an inlay such as meteorite or caribou antler look at the detail and the finish of the ring. Tungsten does not bend out of shape due to its hardness so in an accident the ring will not become deform where it would injure your finger even more.