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Step 4: Pry the can open with either a pocket knife or anything hard and thin enough to fit between the lid and can’s edge. Need a can opener?
Let’s start by stating the obvious: Opening a can with a knife of any kind is risky business and should be done with great care. But, if push comes to shove and you’re in a bind, Witt outlines ...
You might try to pry a jar open with a knife or run it under hot water, but there's actually much simpler way to open a stuck jar lid. Using the handle of a butter knife, simply tap four times ...
A late-20th-century can opener with a rotating cutting wheel and a counter-rotating serrated wheel, for left-handed use. A can opener (North American and Australian English) or tin opener (British English) is a mechanical device used to open metal tin cans.
In 2006, Consumer Reports magazine recognized the wrap rage phenomenon when it created the Oyster Awards for the products with the hardest-to-open packaging. [3] [7] A story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about wrap rage [8] was featured on The Colbert Report when host Stephen Colbert tried to use a knife to remove a new calculator from its plastic packaging, to no avail.
An assisted-opening knife being opened. An assisted-opening knife is a type of folding knife which uses an internal mechanism to finish the opening of the blade once the user has partially opened it using a flipper or thumbstud attached to the blade. [1] When the knife is in the closed position, the blade is held in place by means of torsion ...
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A Linerlock is a folding knife with a side-spring lock that can be opened and closed with one hand without repositioning the knife in the hand. The lock is self-adjusting for wear. The modern Linerlock traces its lineage to the late 19th century, but in the 1980s the design was improved by American custom knifemaker Michael Walker.