Talk:Chinese finger trap

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[edit] How it works

This article should include details on what exactly the mechanism in the finger trap is. What makes it tighten once your fingers are in the edges?

[edit] Title

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--Viriditas | Talk 01:20, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone have any data on its origin? In particular, is it really Chinese? Can't find anything through Google. I think I need a trip to the library... Matthew Platts 11:50, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Need picture.

Yeah, it'd be nice to have one. - Anonymous

There's a template for that. {{reqphoto}} Pimlottc 18:14, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Trek

Hey I've just finished adding the line about the Star Trek episode before realising the same information was present before but removed by the last edit preceding mine. Any reason it was deleted ? 66.130.179.31 15:57, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Adams family.

In the first Adam's family movie, there is a finger trap. It is clearly not the same thing, but probably has its origin, in the chinese finger trap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.49.27.80 (talk) 20:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hot Shots II

If I remember correctly, a finger trap also occurs in Hot Shots II, where one of the prisoners in the Iraqi camp is enchained like that. (And after the trap has been cut in the middle with a knife, he rubs his wrists as if he had been handcuffed.) But does anybody remember some details? --80.171.193.199 (talk) 21:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)