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Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/21/2011 2:35:24 PM

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Does anyone have experience of this please - the process rather than the implications?

Soldering is an option, as is using a superglue of somekind.

Experiences please.

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RE: Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/21/2011 2:39:39 PM

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Just to clarify, you mean sealing the jewelry on?

Soldering is the best method, IF you can do some kind of heat shielding, otherwise an epoxy, though an epoxy is not necessarily "permanent". There is a website, www.thistothat.com that talks about how to attach one thing to another thing, if you know your metals give it a whirl.

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RE: Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/21/2011 2:43:44 PM

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It's in the ear and will need to be thickened and sealed in to prevent it being fiddled with or even cut.

Epoxy is an option. Soldering also is - but just dripping on solder is anything but neat.

Thanks for the help though. Much appreciated.

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RE: Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/21/2011 2:47:39 PM

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In the ear...well, there are cold joins out there, rivets, Ways of Attachment! Good luck, and avoid things that will get stuck in the hair. :)

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RE: Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/21/2011 3:54:23 PM

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prevent it being fiddled with or even cut.

It cannot be done. It can always be cut given the right tools.

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RE: Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/21/2011 7:04:36 PM

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Depending on what you're wanting, you could also look at subdermal implants, so that you basically wind up with a post or ring or whatever that won't come out without the base being cut out. Just do a quick google image search on "subdermal piercing" to get some ideas of what they can do.

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RE: Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/21/2011 7:47:08 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus

Just to clarify, you mean sealing the jewelry on?

Soldering is the best method, IF you can do some kind of heat shielding, otherwise an epoxy, though an epoxy is not necessarily "permanent". There is a website, www.thistothat.com that talks about how to attach one thing to another thing, if you know your metals give it a whirl.

Glad you clarified. I thought the OP wanted to seal a piercing hole closed!

It would seem to me that for safety reasons, one should find someone experienced in this to avoid injury, no?

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RE: Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/26/2011 2:56:59 AM

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The theories straight forward for a solder/weld.
Metal conducts heat.
So pre-freeze the earlobe with icecubes, so the flesh is slower to defrost and reach critical heat. Put a thin sliver of tinfoil as a safety net if your weld-tip slips, plus it'll reflect some of the radiant heat
Use a larger hoop to put the weld away from the flesh.
Clamp some cold metal pliers between the weldpoint and the flesh, to have extra metal to soak up the heat that'll travel along the hoop.
Use a metal tip, not a gas nozzle, so reduce air convection, and make any heat transfer solid to solid.

It's counterintuitive, but weld with a high temperature for a short time, rather than lower heat for a long time. A short pulse of heat should make the weld, and dissipate while heating the pliers. A slow heat will heat the pliers, heat the ear then make the weld.

And like they say above, a weld isn't permanent, bolt cutters are like safety shears for chain perverts and ER departments.

I'd use a padlock myself if you like the mindfuck of dangling weights. Or tamperproof, vanilla, numbered inspection tags if weight is an issue.

And pick your welder as carefully as you'd pick your tattooist, for exactly the same reason.

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RE: Permanently Sealing a Piercing - 11/26/2011 11:55:44 AM

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Make sure the hair is pulled back away from the ears. Then it depends on what you want on her. Earrings for pierced ears come with posts on them to attach them . Some rings that are true rings even come already set up to be screwed together. As was previously mentioned you are not going to stop them from being removed so why try. So long as they can be removed, you can change them from one to another depending on what she is wearing.

If you want it so it can not be easily removed then you already have enough ideas. The smaller in diameter the ring, the harder it will be to cut it off. The larger in diameter, the easier to solder it while held away from the ear and less chance of it hurting her. Which is of more concern to you, not causing her some pain or making sure she can never change them out?

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