How do you open blister packs with a slipjoint?

NeedleRemorse said:
I never thought it was really that difficult...
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Well, its not with the cheap ones that inexpensive items are packaged in. I recently bought a new MP3 player ($200+) which was packaged in some of the toughest plastic I have ever come across. I tried my regular EDC knife (a small SAK), no good. I tried a pair or regular office scissors, no good. I tried a box cutter, broke the blade. It finally took a set of tin snips to cut that $%@& open! :mad:
 
I hand it over to a co-worker and ask the poor knifeless SOB if he can help me open it while I am working on something else... because I find joy in the minor suffering of humanity and because it might help convince him to get a knife of his own.
 
Follow these steps and you can't go wrong:

1. Hold slip-joint with any blade open in right hand.

2. Use left hand to close slip joint.

3. Put Slip joint in pocket.

4. Get a pair of scissors.
 
Put the knife throught the plastic at a 45 degree angle, not a right angle.
This way the plastic won't bind on the blade.
Go slow, cut away from your fingers.
:D
 
Ah, the irony of buying a knife packaged so that you need a knife to open it.

You can't beat that if you try. :D
 
rhino said:
Ah, the irony of buying a knife packaged so that you need a knife to open it.

You can't beat that if you try. :D
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Well, this one's right up there: One day my internet just wouldn't connect, and the first suggestion the manual had for this problem was that I go online and check out my ISP's website for details on how to resolve this problem. Argh!

Chris
 
GarageBoy said:
Nearly took off a finger when my SAK got stuck in the middle of opening up. How do you guys do it?
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I work in a camera store and open blister packs at least a few times a week. Personally, I use a locking blade with a thin, sharp tip and serrations.

Chris
 
Interesting topic, because as much as I like traditional slipjoints, I've decided that for tasks such as this (if I don't have access to scissors), a locking blade is that only way to go - safely. I was bitten once by having one close on my finger, which was stupid on my part; still, there are times when something needs to be punctured, and a slipjoint is always a bad idea in that situation.
 
One of the things I do when opening a blister pack is to pinch the blade between my thumb and pointer finger and use the tip of the blade, it can't close on my fingers 'cause I'm holdin' the blade.
 
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