Ok so I have seen the story of the use of the calicrate bander and i do like to play with banding so i have a couple of queations about them first has anyone been able to crimp the origional without hurting them selfs and second if anyone has actually been able to get ither of them the original or the wee bander fully to the proper tighting limits

I'm looking forward to seeing the replies on this, because it is something that I was interested in knowing as well. I looked at these in the farm supply store and came close to buying one. I did buy a couple of the large bands and played with those and what I found was they tended to pinch the skin at the point of the metal clamp. I don't know if that would happen if used in the machine, but thought it might. And I also wondered if it was possible to tighten it to the proper limit and crimping the clamp. These things might be a lot of fun for an intact person.

I no longer have to need or interest in buying one since I will soon be coming up on a year of being castrated.