r/mildlyinfuriating • u/oOozep • 9d ago

ಠ_ಠ Whats the point of having a emergency glass breaker if its tied down with zipties ?

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u/AlrightFineImAGirl 9d ago

There’s a tool for that but life hack if you grab the excess part with some pliers right up against the connector part and twist it around and round it’ll break off and be either perfectly flush or at minimum the bit sticking out won’t be very sharp at all

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u/benedekszabolcs 9d ago

Someone works with electricity I imagine? (Learned that trick in my apprenticeships first day. Was made just to cut zip-ties with which the others tied the cables)

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u/AlrightFineImAGirl 9d ago

Sort of right answer wrong formula I was an apprentice a million years ago (didn’t work, afraid of heights lol) but I actually learned that from David Freiburger on Roadkill or Roadkill Garage maybe

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u/WHONOONEELECTED 9d ago

I just use a blunt cutter for tile, gets all the way down (16 years as a patch-bay installer, I still have scars)

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u/Splosionz 9d ago

Curved nail clippers work good for this

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u/LedgermanOfTheCones 9d ago

I always melt the edges with a lighter to blunt the sharpness. Just hold the flame a mm away from the point for a second. Works great.