You have a knife, but---

Knife or key to open boxes?

  • Key, tape gunk is terrible

    Votes: 2 2.2%

  • Knife, tape residue is easy to remove

    Votes: 88 97.8%
  • Total voters
    90
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Blues said:
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I thought everyone knew that boxes require an open hand chop…it’s so much harder when you start throwing punches.

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Knife point barely touches the tape, and no residue gets on it, but that one tiny puncture breaks the surface tension and it opens by hand easily from there, in most cases. Not the fireproof fiber reinfcored tape. I hate that stuff.
 
I usually just grab whatever basic beater / retired edc that is laying around the house. I leave my better stuff for those damned clam shell packs.

I am still trying to educate my other half on the benefits of a decent blade to get her to stop buying gas station knives off the bay.

With that in mind there is rarely not a knife near to hand.

Booze is for after the boxes are open. Not during.
 
Blues said:
I think my mother used Palmolive or similar...same result.
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As of late I have been carrying a Mikwaukee utility knife in addition to a pocket knife. I use the pocket knife for food and light cutting, and the Milwaukee for opening / cutting up boxes, scraping, etc. that I dont want to screw up my knife on. The Milwaukee has screwdriver bits that come in handy too. I keep a jiffy cutter handy at home for box duty, it works great!
 
During the summer the humidity is so high here that 1095 rusts fast enough to make noise, but that also means that if the package was delayed at all, the tape has let go. Thankfully any open box is generally guarded by a live snake or a horrifically poisonous spider, so I just need a long stick to open the boxes. During the winter, the humidity is a bit less, so boxes stay pretty well taped up, but if they used the starch packing peanuts, there will be a small mammal living in there, so I can just use the hole to open the box. If enough people start using keys to open boxes, they'll get banned, so we will have to leave doors unlocked, so I'm just mostly sticking to my bench mounted band saw.
 
gadgetgeek said:
During the summer the humidity is so high here that 1095 rusts fast enough to make noise, but that also means that if the package was delayed at all, the tape has let go. Thankfully any open box is generally guarded by a live snake or a horrifically poisonous spider, so I just need a long stick to open the boxes. During the winter, the humidity is a bit less, so boxes stay pretty well taped up, but if they used the starch packing peanuts, there will be a small mammal living in there, so I can just use the hole to open the box. If enough people start using keys to open boxes, they'll get banned, so we will have to leave doors unlocked, so I'm just mostly sticking to my bench mounted band saw.
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This is funny because it’s true here as well.
 
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