Comment on Discussion Thread: Monday, 17 March 2025

Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Open the ring up a bit with a 5c piece (the one surviving use for these). Or a nail file.

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A teaspoon works, too

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Butter knife

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the way, don’t do it with your fingernails.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Separate the rings with your thumbnail like you’re splitting a nut. You just gotta get them far enough apart for the key to fit, then it will continue to hold the loops apart as you run it around the coil to pop off the end

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  finger grease

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• Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Butter knife to pry the bits of the ring apart.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  angle grinder

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  • mertn22@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If that fails use dynamite.

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