How Does One Remove a PoP Cast?

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An odd query (for a motoring forum especially)...

How does one go by removing a plaster-of-paris cast, without a snazzy oscillating saw as used by the NHS?

(and before anyone asks, no, it's got nothing to do with a real injury... It's just that I need a recovery plan for the groom-to-be after his stag do... and preferably one which doesn't involve a hacksaw)

M.
 
Tin snips work well. Cut large plastic bottles down the centre and put them over the leg/arm like lagging, stops the plaster from being to tight, also stops the plaster from sticking to hairs.:D Have fun.
 
Thanks! Was planning on putting some cotton type padding between the cast and his leg, make it look more authentic :) (especially as he's broken his leg before, so it needs to be convincing)
 
a dremel or similar 12v mini drill and cutting disk will make short work of plaster of paris and make the victim (i mean groom) sweat a little.....
 
I did consider a dremel... am a little worried about slicing his leg a day or two before the wedding though!

Plus, I doubt he would let a hung-over best man with a known penchant for trouble go near his leg with a (mini) power tool :p

M.
 
You can buy those oscilating saws in DIY shops now.

I *think* they are the same anyway. :D
 
You can also soak it off given some warm water and vinegar.

But be careful where you dispose of the water afterwards, you don't want plaster of paris to set again inside your waste pipes.

If this is going to be a fake cast, then I guess it won't be as thick/substantial as a proper NHS one, so tin snips will probably do the job very easily.
 
You could cast it separately - maybe using the pop bottle suggested - so it slips on and off easily. Just make it clear to the groom, if he removes it, or even if you think he might consider removing it, then you'll...

...rub his eyebrows with Immac hair removal cream, pop a dollop on his head for good measure, strip him naked, write on his back with permanent ink "You'll ever guess where I hid the drugs" with an arrow pointing downwards, and put him on the night train to Inverness.
 
Chainsaw.
 
You could cast it separately - maybe using the pop bottle suggested - so it slips on and off easily. Just make it clear to the groom, if he removes it, or even if you think he might consider removing it, then you'll...

...rub his eyebrows with Immac hair removal cream, pop a dollop on his head for good measure, strip him naked, write on his back with permanent ink "You'll ever guess where I hid the drugs" with an arrow pointing downwards, and put him on the night train to Inverness.

That assume's he'll know:
a- it's us putting the cast on
b- it's a fake cast

The idea is after the first night he will be a little worst for wear. While asleep/passed out in the hotel, a cast will be fitted to his leg. In the morning, a credible story about him getting drunk and jumping off a wall meant he broke his leg and was escorted to A&E, where a cast was fitted (as happened a few years ago, when he did precisely that)

Probably won't be a full let cast, just an ankle or so... but it'll be thick and heavy enough to be credible, and make him an easy target when paintballing the day after...

(also planned are a set of games, events, dares, and questions, as per tradition, to subject him to ritual humiliation... including asking him his fiancee's details (birth-date, anniversary of first kiss, etc) while either drunk or in a strip club... followed by questions about the stripper (eye color, hair color, etc after the dance)). The ideas are flowing these days...

M.
 
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and childish, immature, silly, stupid (the list goes on)... but that's half the point of a stag do, is it not?

It's a final farewell to all those immature things which the stag will no longer be doing (in theory), and the fact that he will now be expected to behave responsibly.

It's also a chance for his friends/family to show their jealousy for his getting finding someone he loves which loves him back - which in turn means ritual ridicule and humiliation...

Check in all the boxes ;)
M.
 
and is more Spinals style.

No point in doing something by halves if you can buy the biggest noisiest thing to do it !!!

He could jump off the climbing frame on the roof with one of his bushman choppers and with one swing of his chopper...
 
Leave a few runny egg whites down his butt crack. When he wakes up tell him you got smashed and bummed him off. That should make him smile.
 

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