Classes of Tools

[Riona]

There is a special class of tools that exist solely to open the packets that Home Depot sells other tools in.

There may even exist a super-class of tools that open the packets that the tool-packet opening tools come in

How did we ever make it past fire and the wheel ?

 

[kamal]

Up here the 'frontier spirit' is still alive, we use scissors.

Actually, before I retired, we were given the tool you refer to as a 'safety award' - one of the guys on my crew cut his finger with it.

Have a good one.

Al.

 

[Fred W]

It's kind of like having a meeting to discuss and plan an upcoming meeting.

 

[08FJR4ME]

Up here the 'frontier spirit' is still alive, we use scissors.

Actually, before I retired, we were given the tool you refer to as a 'safety award' - one of the guys on my crew cut his finger with it.

Have a good one.

Al.

Scissors? Metal snips more likely. This is one thing that realy pisses me off these days. How did we ever survive !!!

 

[FJRay]

The proper application of explosives is very effective for improving your attitude but sometimes the tool in question suffers. The idiots that design packaging should have to use it for toilet paper a few times. Things would change in a hurry.

 

[SacramentoMike]

Too bad there are so many shoplifters everywhere. You can't go into Home Depot without finding cut-open packages all over. Those guys manage to get them open, though, don't they?

A few years ago John Ratzenberger (Cliff Claven) stopped by the Cutco factory on the show "Made in America." All Cutco products are guaranteed forever, period. It's expensive, but when the boss took the kitchen shears to a copper penny and started to cut the outer edge away like you'd peel an apple, I was sold. Finally bought a pair at the State Fair or someplace.

I have finally learned, after getting rid of lots of cheap **** I bought and replaced, to buy good tools. Once. Now if only I'd bought that Little Giant ladder the first time I ever wanted it . . .

But I've never met a plastic package I couldn't cut open since I got this thing.

 

[Road_Runner]

Kinda like trying to find a flashlight in the dark. You need a flashlight ot find it.

 

[yamafitter]

It's kind of like having a meeting to discuss and plan an upcoming meeting.

I've been to meetings to plan the meeting you're talking about about but then again I was a work "planner" or if you prefer an assessor. It was my job to plan out how you were supposed to do your job, at least that was the plan. I got to go to all sorts of meetings in lieu of doing anything meaningful. If you skipped the meetings they tasked you with real work.

 

[0Face]

+1 on the Cutco kitchen shears. Those ridiculous plastic packages don't stand a chance.

 

[majicmaker]

I have a gigantic set of CUTCO knives and all the gadgets.The only thing I didn't get is the scissors. Damn....

 

[bwv]

I use this:

https://www.dremel.com/en-us/Tools/Pages/ToolDetail.aspx?pid=8300

I'm not saying I like it.. its a real POS, as far as tools go...and i was born with a Dremel rotary tool in one hand. worst tool they ever made.

I would not buy this tool again.. or.. id buy the corded one.. love the idea, love the work it does...this model just sucks

BUT... it opens those packages with a speed and agility you just cant imagine..

 

[RadioHowie]

i was born with a Dremel rotary tool in one hand.

Picture of mom during birth.....

 

[HotRodZilla]

i was born with a Dremel rotary tool in one hand.

Picture of mom during birth.....

Dayum...Mom is hawt!!!

 

[wfooshee]

Did she make the same face while getting pregnant?

 

[Old Guy]

Google is your friend

https://www.myopenx.com/home.htm

Though, I will say that I keep a pair of office scissors in my garage for this purpose, and they work well enough.

 

[yamafitter]

You guys are fooling around too much with these plastic packages. I just light up my Acetylene cutting torch and voila.

There hasn't been a plastic package yet that has stumped me. I hear a plasma cutter also works well.

Mind you, by the time I'm done the contents of the package may have suffered some collateral damage.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

i was born with a Dremel rotary tool in one hand.

Picture of mom during birth.....

Exactly WHERE was the cord(Dremel!) plugged into may I ask?

Howie, you are a master at getting the proper pic.

I guess different parts of the world do different things but I am never without a pocket knife. A good pocket knife is such a useful tool, takes up such a small amount of space, and is so easy to carry, I cannot imagine not having it with me at all times. My wife carries a Leatherman Micro Tool in her purse that unfolds into a small but handy pair of scissors, and has a small knife blade in there as well.

 

[RadioHowie]

My friends call me Tater.......Tater-He Man!

 

[stealth1]

I use this:https://www.dremel.com/en-us/Tools/Pages/ToolDetail.aspx?pid=8300

I'm not saying I like it.. its a real POS, as far as tools go...and i was born with a Dremel rotary tool in one hand. worst tool they ever made.

I would not buy this tool again.. or.. id buy the corded one.. love the idea, love the work it does...this model just sucks

BUT... it opens those packages with a speed and agility you just cant imagine..

I bought the corded one a few years ago. It paid for itself on one job. Haven't used it since.