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  • okay, so the magnets arrived today... but I'm going out of town tomorrow. and also, the scalpels haven't arrived yet (... I could do it with a sharp enough knife, but I'll be patient and wait for the scalpels... ) so, this is mostly a "hey I didn't forget about this" post. also, I'll keep updating as things happen.
  • @ThomasEgi: well, they're piercing balls. shiny, and all that. the actual fact that makes me think they're completely safe for me, is that I have quite a few piercings of the exact same steel (and same finish, since they're from the same batch), and they never gave me a reaction (...well, my ears like to act up sometimes,…
  • @ightden: what is so bad about having a loose 3mm surgical steel ball in my leg to call me stupid? ... I don't really get it... @ThomasEgi : as I said, I have some surgical steel balls (completely safe). so I may try one of those. thing is, where would you suggest to implant it? near the ankle? (I'd go for the legs, btw,…
  • @Cassox: wow, you really did all my homework!! THANKS!!! anyway, as I was expecting, it's nothing too bad. I think, worst case, it will reject, or I'll feel something's not good and extract it myself. also, if your greatest worry (re: biocompatibility and or toxicity/carcinogenicity) is the dye, I think it wont' be too…
  • okay, I'll look deeper into the whole mutagens thing. and if being inside really is that much difference over it being outside my skin (I'm never good at not putting the thing on my cuticles... ). "Splashing water on your hands isnt like sitting in a vat of blood." how about taking a hot bath for quite a while? does that…
  • @glims: yeah, I keep asking "am I missing something?" 'cause it's usually related to different things. then you guys explain what I'm missing, and I don't really ignore it, I just look for a workaround (or provide a reasoning as to why I don't see it being as bad as you guys put it). then ask again to be sure I didn't mess…
  • 1. it cures completely shiny-smooth. no need for a microscope or magnifying glass, it has a mirror shine. (any rough surface won't uniformly reflect the light... ) 2. quite durable. I've used the cheaper one on my nails as nail-extensions. I'm quite rough with my nails, yet it lasted quite a while without…
  • see, that kind of extra test is what I wanted to learn. anyway, the tests I linked are for the monomer ingredients - once cured, it turns into a non-soluble polymer (.... I currently have my nails coated in it, and can confirm that water solubility of the material is almost zero... though I'll totally do the test on…
  • hey, but I'm using uv gel. ... it's only, they sell it as uv nail gel. :) anyway, I got myself some gel yesterday... even if I don't end using it for magnets, my nails will welcome some lasting manicure. well, this is the ingredients list: Di-HEMA Trimethylhexyl Dicarbamate, HEMA, Hydroxypropyl Methacrylate,…
  • @ThomasEgi: yeah, and silicon carbide is also used for machining steel, and a weak bump could break any piece in two. (guess what? I've been machining some steel this weekend with silicon carbide tools). I.e. hardness is NOT a measure of stability against, say, friction, or contact with corrosive liquids (i.e.blood). and…
  • re: tests: okay, guys, you got me there. I don't understand anything about that iodine thing. .... are you trying to dissolve nickel? ... and why? ... my magnets aren't gonna be nickel-coated, anyway (well, tbh, the plating is something like ni-cu-ni-au plus uv gel, and the test would be to see how long it takes for the…
  • @trybalwolf: how's that so? I mean, the magnets would be gold-coated, and then, coated with UV gel, just to protect the gold... (only, the gold wouldn't be double-thick, I would just get them already coated). as for my body rejecting it... that's like rejecting a piercing, right? in that, there are no actual risks, except…
  • >"you may want to explore things like uv-curing paint." hey, I have UV nail gel polish! .... though I can't even know what's made of. (I mean, it's chinese... god knows what they use to make it). BUT, if I look around, I may be able to locally find a reputable store which lists ingredients, and then check every ingredient…
  • @ThomasEgi: then, how about sugru? as a thin coat for protecting the gold plating? would that be safe? (note I'm not talking about stability now.... since that's what the gold plating is for.)
  • @MTS, ohh, that sounds promising. however, I'm not sure I'll be able to wait that long, lol. anyway, I asked the jeweler about the gold plating. he said he really can't know how much a 5um plating (the thickest they do) would last inside the skin (I would have been surprised if he knew), but he wouldn't think it would last…
  • oh, so the main problem with sugru is actually stability.... then that's a problem. and I'd guess hot glue (apart from the impossibility to achieve an uniform coating) is equally bad in terms of stability.... anyway, would it work if it was in a thicker layer? like, thin things usually break easily, but if you add…