A full video tutorial on the proper removal of tungsten rings can be found here.
Broken finger tungsten ring.
A broken or fractured finger occurs when one or more of these bones breaks.
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.
Take care not to slide the cracked ring up and down your finger.
Now you know tungsten rings can break and you understand why they can break.
Normally it might not be a big deal to get it resized except that my ring is made out of tungsten carbide.
Listen nobody is perfect.
I replaced that band with a tungsten carbide band with three diamonds in it.
Once again last week i slapped my hand down on my desk at work and boom broken again.
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.
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.
A fracture can occur in any of the phalanges.
If your tungsten ring has a precious metal inlay the platinum palladium gold or silver may be cut in the regular method.
Tungsten rings are quick and easy to remove from your finger in case of medical emergency easier than gold.
Give the ring a quarter turn and repeat until the ring has completely broken off your finger.
The entire process should take less than 30 seconds to complete.
So i either get a new ring or figure out how to make this.
How to fix a loose ring with tape and clear fingernail polish.
The most common method of removing tungsten rings from your finger is by using a pair of vice grips.
A break is usually the result of an injury to the hand.
Cheaper tungsten carbide rings might be made from cobalt although these will discolor your finger in the way cheap jewelry is known to so are best avoided.
Listen nobody is perfect.
