[Boatanchors] Dental Picks

[manualman at juno.com]

Begging for dental picks at the dentist; how cheap can you get. Almost as
bad as garbage can diving. Walmart and most drug stores have them in
assorted angles, some even with a mirror, for a couple of bucks.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Fri, 10 May 2013 15:26:04 -0400 Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
writes:
> On 05/10/2013 02:56 PM, Al Parker wrote:
> > The Sky Is Falling, the sky is falling.
> >
> > Have you guys stopped going to the dentist also?
> >
> > I agree with Walt, a good source of quality tools.
> > 73,
> >
> > Al, W8UT
> > www.boatanchors.org
> > www.hammarlund.info
> >
> > "There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much
> > worth doing as simply messing about in boats"
> > Ratty, to Mole
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  From my days in public safety..
> 
> The aids virus is pretty wimpy and won't be alive on that dental 
> tool 
> (or anywhere else outside a host) more than a few hours. The issue 
> with 
> the dentist (it's happened before in other places) the doctor (or 
> staff) 
> contaminates the tool after it has been removed from it's sterile 
> wrapper...and then uses it on a "victim" right away. So the sky 
> isn't 
> falling - unless you are that dentist. His sky really is falling.
> 
> You aren't going to stab yourself with it anyway, are you?
> 
> I have two that I have been using for *decades*.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H