[Boatanchors] Dental Picks

[manualman at juno.com]

Harbor freight has 6 piece sets for $3.99; 5 piece sets for $2.99; picked
up at hamfest 5 piece set with pouch for $3 several years ago, and I
didn't have to go to the dentist to beg for his tools.

As far as recycling dentist tools (Ha); the heck with that; I wouldn't
touch his tools even if he gave me a guarantee.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Fri, 10 May 2013 15:50:40 -0400 "David C. Hallam"
<dhallam at knology.net> writes:
> Almost any flea market will have vendors selling dental picks, 
> forceps, 
> scissors, tweezers, mirrors, and the like.
> 
> David
> KW4DH
> 
> On 5/10/2013 3:35 PM, manualman at juno.com wrote:
> > 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
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