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one time I got one stuck on my wrist tight enough to where I couldn't get out of it after a while I was able to get sizors under the thing and cut it off.
I thought these things were disposable. When I use them I have no intention of ever removing them. Furthermore I tighten them with side cutters and clip the extra off to make a neat appearance. If I have an application requiring future removal I use very cheap Velcro strips.
"Everyone knows zipties are the main cause of global warming because people don't recycle. If you don't know that, you must be living under an ice cap. If you reuse them, the world will cool down and everyone will get together and hold hands!" LOL! You rock! Plus... then when everyone's holding hands, you sneak up behind 'me with a pocket full of liberated zip-ties and... ;)
Hye nice one skate, for the tiny zipties a safety pin works really well, it's fiddly to get anything under the latch piece but once you do you're in business, nice 'ible...
Go ahead... I know what you mean, I've published six this month and none of them have been rubbishy ones, got another project that's been coming since before the green contest, working out the construction process has been very difficult...
Yeah see the ubran cycling 'ible, that had been in my unpublished for months, getting rewritten and written aswell as waiting for pics, then on the day I published it the bike contest appeared... Thanks, it'll all be good now that I've got the work figured out, also it'll look damn cool now, it involves cans...
If you don't have any tools handy and you are dexterous enough you can use your fingernail to lift the edge of the catch then use the end of the tie to force it open further. Hold it with your fingernail and slip the tie though the catch.
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Good luck on your instructable. I actually didn't make this to be added. I saw it at the end and was like:
I might as well enter it