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03-02-2009, 12:52 PM
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What's the best way to cut them when they are super tight? I bought some cables and they are bounded together by a super tight zip tie and I want to get it off w/o damaging the goods. Thanks.
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03-02-2009, 12:54 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | Diagonal cutters. 
You should be able to snip the zip tie without cutting the cables. Just be careful and try not to cut all the way through and past the zip tie.
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03-02-2009, 01:13 PM
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03-02-2009, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Glendale, CA (LA County) | | | Use dikes to cut the head, or whatever it's called, the part with the ratchet in it. Just destroy it's ability to hold on, and it will let go.
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03-02-2009, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by ulrich  Use dikes | That's simpler and much more effective. |
03-02-2009, 01:45 PM
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03-02-2009, 01:47 PM
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03-02-2009, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by whoatherechunk dikes? | Dikes are diagonal cutters. |
03-02-2009, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by whoatherechunk dikes? | Diagonal cutters. See post two.
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03-02-2009, 02:22 PM
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Applications Engineer, QSC Audio | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Costa Mesa, Calif. | | | What Chunk-o-Funk said.
Cut the end as flush with the ratchet as you can. That way you don't have exposed sharp corners left behind to cut you (or someone else). |
03-02-2009, 02:29 PM
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03-02-2009, 02:31 PM
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03-02-2009, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | got it. thanks guys. |
03-02-2009, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Lee (QSC) What Chunk-o-Funk said.
Cut the end as flush with the ratchet as you can. That way you don't have exposed sharp corners left behind to cut you (or someone else). | Sorry, that second bit of advice was for placing a cable tie, not removing one. |
03-02-2009, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk Nice beaver. | Thanks. He just had it stuffed.
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03-02-2009, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by whoatherechunk got it. thanks guys. | sorry for the stupidity |
03-02-2009, 04:21 PM
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03-02-2009, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by embellisher Thanks. He just had it stuffed. | 
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03-02-2009, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by embellisher Thanks. He just had it stuffed. | If you hadn't already done it, I would have.
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