• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The wire is steel but the crimps are aluminium. You can heat the crimps with a cigarette lighter til they soften enough to pull the wire apart. A lighter flame is about 1200 degrees at the tip, aluminium melts at ~650 depending on the alloy

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    3 days ago

    Get some heavy duty wire cutters, that would be the easiest method, but if you don’t have any you can just take a hammer to that plastic bit and obliterate it. Heck, even a hefty stone would work.

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      3 days ago

      The bar code identifies the specific type of product, not a n individual example within that type of product. It’s not a serial code.

      I ran into this a lot when I worked for a pet food manufacturer. If there was an issue with a product, customers often assumed the UPC could identify when the product was made, where it was distributed, and even where it was purchased. It does not. Otherwise packaging would be incredibly inefficient to make because each bag of the same recipe and size would need its own unique UPC.

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      The bar code identifies the specific type of product, not a n individual example within that type of product. It’s not a serial code.

      I ran into this a lot when I worked for a pet food manufacturer. If there was an issue with a product, customers often assumed the UPC could identify when the product was made, where it was distributed, and even where it was purchased. It does not. Otherwise packaging would be incredibly inefficient to make because each bag of the same recipe and size would need its own unique UPC.

  • Dunning Kruger@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Bolt cutters would make quick work of those cables; but if you don’t already have some, you might see if you can get a couple of flat head screw drivers into the top of the notch where your fingers are in the picture. I’m guessing that’s part of where the plastic cage comes apart when it’s unlocked, so it could be a good leverage point if you wanted to try just forcing it open.

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    4 days ago

    Disassemble it, take the parts out and reassemble it. Be sure to blow bits of dust and hair off the platter before reassembly.

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      3 days ago

      Cutters? Why are you going for the steel wire when there’s very easily smahsable plastic piece?

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    If we’re being very lazy with few tools, a pair of pliers will do it. Pinch the wire close to one of the joints and bent it back and forth a bunch of times. The wire cable will eventually snap. Do it for a few of them and it’ll open a big enough hole.

    Or, uh, return it to the store where you found it or alert the local police so the local corporate retail site gets their, uh, property back. Yeah.

    There’s also a joke about sexy fishnet stockings but I’m having trouble completing the joke.