Do-It-Yourself Type Question

[wolf63]

How do I snip off the end of a stanley Knife? I think that is what it is called anyway.

I know that it should be easy and simple - but it isn't.

W☺lf

[stuey]

You mean the type that have multiple sections on the blade that you remove to get a new section. Just hold the "old" section with a pair of pliers slightly above the join and snap it off.

[wolf63]

Pliers - are they the things like giant tweezers? I might have some of my dad's old tools.

It is all so complicated.

Thanks Stewey

[stuey]

I have to admit that when I do the snapping, I look away just in case of flying bits: however, that's never happened.

[stuey]

Here are a few: https://www.google.ca/search?q=pliers&client=firefox-a&hs=pCn&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&;sa=X&ei=jz_hU6jdK8GRyATYp4F4&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&;bih=639

[jno]

make sure it is one that comes in sections, though.

Some are just double ended: you open the knife and turn them round.

[gingejbee]

Pliers...like giant tweezers? Wolf - are you sure you should be DIYing?

[stuey]

I forgot to mention wolf63, that when you snap the old section off make sure that it's the only one showing at the top of the knife otherwise you'll remove multiple sections.

[wolf63]

Worry not people - I am only chopping up Pepsi bottles.

jno - it is the segmented blade ones. I tried it the other day and only one little bit came off.

I will hunt for my pliers and do it in the morning. I need to find the wire for my electric/battery screwdriver to try and fix my bed.

I have inherited my father's talents at DIY ~ he was useless too. My brother is totally the opposite.


Night all ~ my moggies are staring at me so it must be bedtime. It is not worth me refusing to obey orders.

[wolf63]

Thanks for that Stuey. Do girls get taught this sort of stuff at school now? I got taught how to sew and knit ~ I am useless at these things too.

[stuey]

The more you do the better and more comfortable you become...Cheers.

[Tilly2]

See here

[joko]

the plastic end of these knives comes off and has a little 'crevice' that you insert the blade in and snap it off

[wolf63]

Thank you everyone ~ I found a pair of pliers and successfully snipped off the end bit.

My next task is to work out why my bed is sloping. From the headboard it slopes downwards and from the edge of the bed it sloped up towards the wall.

I have three options:

(1) Buy a new bed

(2) Work out why this is happening (not new but just becoming annoying)

(3) Get rid of the bed and sleep on the floor on my new mattress and the previous two mattresses that my cats are using as a climbing wall.

option three would mean that Frankie and Princess Merlin would be unable to hide under the bed when vet time comes.

[stuey]

You have a fourth option, wolf63. Assuming that your bedroom is upstairs, place some scissor-jacks in the room beneath the bedroom and keep on adjusting them until the aforementioned offending bed is on the level:)

[aelmpvw]

just ask your brother for some help, apparently he's good at that sort of thing

[wolf63]

stuey - I live in a flat on the top two floors (2nd and 3rd floor) so that is, theoretically, a possible solution.

Alas Frankie is a climber and has killed two clothes horses in the last few years - not too sure if he could resist the scissor thingy. He and his sister are now nine but they can still act like kittens when they need to.

I wish my brother hadn't moved abroad (Engerlund) coz he is good at this type of thing.

My impending repairs to my roof are going to cost me thousands of pounds. That is if we still have the pound up her in Scotland when the bill comes in.

[Old_Geezer]

Sure it isn't your bedroom floor ?

[stuey]

Well then, get rid of the listing bed and sling up two hammocks, make sure yer does it Bristol fashion like, one hammock be fer you and 'tother one be fer the flat-owners: the cats...Cheers, matey.

[wolf63]

OG - I suspect that is part of the problem. But I have had the bed in several places in the bedroom and it still lists.

Are hammocks made with very fat person's in mind?