My fingers are still numb!

[430752]

from sanding. Anything can be done?

This weekend was devoted to drinking beer and finishing the baseboard/door trim in a nursery. The baseboard/trim is chestnut (me thinks) and I had already stripped all the paint. But now I needed to get into the fancy trim parts (creases) by hand as well as clean up the broad, flat parts. So the Fein multimaster worked pretty well on the detail stuff and corners. 80 grit, 120 grit, 220 grit. Also used folded-up sandpaper by hand. That was Sat/Sun. Fingers werer numb for a few hours afterwards, but then returned to normal after beer.

Then yesterday was the Rigid 5" ROS with 60, 100, 150, 220 grit. I ended at about 2m, (after about 5 hours of sanding) and I still can't get good feeling in my fingers. I tried drinking beer in order to get that delicate, tactile touch back, but nothing.

Anyone got any ideas on what to do get back to normal, and what to do in future to help prevent this? I know, marathon sanding sessions are the cause, but it had to be done.

curt j.

[wreckwriter]

just takes time. I wish mine were numb

[jziegler]

Curt,

Lee Velley has some anti-vibration gloves that I've been thinking of trying. Should help out somewhat, I think. Also, for the detail stuff, consider trying the little Dremel finishing abrasive buffs. I used them with some success doing some grooves in table legs I was stripping paint from, and they worked well for that. And the dremel seems to have less vibration than the sander does.

As for getting back to normal, time. When I had lots of time and no money a little over a year ago, I sanded the floor of a 12x12 bedroom with my trusty 5" ROS. My hands felt really bad after that. A day or two later and I was fine.

Jim

[gary]

Curt,
Lee Velley has some anti-vibration gloves that I've been thinking of trying.

I've got those gloves and used them last week while using a ROS making spindles at my chair class. My hands still went numb but it took longer (6 hours+). They help but won't eliminate the numbing problem. It took 2 days for them to feel somewhat normal but stiff again.

[WayneJ]

Next time try a little J.D. with the beer . The J.D.makes the beer work better. It tends to slow you down,less work, less numbness. HTH
Wayne

[gjbivin]

Next time try a little J.D. with the beer . The J.D.makes the beer work better. It tends to slow you down,less work, less numbness. HTH
Wayne

Are you sure it isn't that the J.D. just makes the rest of you numb to match?

[WayneJ]

No, you have that mixed up with " Tequila " That Jose Q will get you every time, It numbs the brain.
Wayne

[MilDoc]

Lee Velley has some anti-vibration gloves that I've been thinking of trying.

Great gloves, far better than others I've tried and given away. But the longest I've used them was an hour or so. Long term?