Handling an aged fiberglass antenna today I got several splinters of fiberglass in my thumb and forefingers. Since they’re very hard to see I couldn’t tweeze them out. So I washed my hands carefully, rubbing in the opposite direction from which the fibers went in to avoid shoving them in further, and once they were clean and dry I used some tape to remove them.

If you got the fibers by moving your hand across a fiberglass pole, consider the angle that the fibers would have gone into your skin, apply the tape to your dry clean hands and pull it off in the direction from which they went in. It took many applications but I got most of it out.

Even if you’re not sure which way they went in you can still loosen them significantly by lifting the tape off perpendicular to your skin surface.

If that fails I believe that soaking the skin until it’s prune-like and then drying and extracting may be more effective. Scotch tape or duct tape probably will do the best job.

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