How Do I undo those Rip Cord Sack fastenings?

[zzapper]

Hi

How Do I undo those Rip Cord Sack fastenings?

Best regards zzapper

[Dave A]

1. Pull string A

1. Pull string B

2. Pull somewhere at random in the middle.

1. Give up and cut the top off.

Or at least that's what I usually end up doing.

[John]

LOL!!

I thought I had the ownership of that method!!

John

[zzapper]

LOL I've managed it once by accident, it's so cool when it works zzapper

Just How do you Create More Ideas?

[Arthur2]

If your refering to the same kind of seaming that used to be on those bags of coal from a chandlers (old fashioned I am).....me dad could do it. He just did this and then he did that and then he would pull it all out with a cool prrrrrrrrrr sound.

He never taught me how to do it.

I feel like a failure!

Arthur

[Rod]

You took me back over forty years in a single phrase!

Anyone else remember Ripcord the series? With Larry Pennell as Ted McKeever and Ken Curtis as Jim Buckley.

[Huge]

It's not just me, then?

[Tim Lamb]

In message , zzapper writes

On the off chance that this is serious....:-)

And in agricultural terminology.... you ideally need to know which end is which. Many 25 and 50kg feed or seed bags are closed by this system and repetitive failures eventually teach that the position of the bag logo or stitched in label is a reliable indication.

Cut the surplus *overstitch* off close to the bag. You will then have two threads, one of which will unzip when pulled.

Unfortunately there are several different versions of stitchers: having two or more threads.

The advent of cheap plastic sacks reduced the problem as a knife nick into the side along the stitching line allows a bit of brute force to tear off the bag top. Just like toilet paper!

regards

[me here]

I "open" one or two sacks a month. over the past two years I've managed to do it right twice. I forget how. It's REALLY annoying!

[Martin Bonner]

On the bags I am familar with, there is only one thread making the seal. If you have two threads, then one of them is a dead end. I usually find that I have to unthread through the loops once, and then I can just pull. If that isn't working, I go to the other end.

Often the right end has a sort of double thickness of thread where the stitcher has gone back on itself.

It's very satisfying when you get it right.

[Andrew Gabriel]

A bit like the plastic straps which you often see people fighting with.

You can walk up in your super cool demineur, turn over the strap at the join, peel apart and snap with no effort at all, and walk off smugly...

[zzapper]

Just managed it, I had as advised here to keep snipping away with scissors at the spare thread AND the first 5 cms or so, and then it peeled away. I think the first few cms may be extra stitched to stop them ripping too easily!

zzapper

[jal]

Oy - that was going to be _my_ contribution!

It's fantastic, the power of that joint (hoiking boxes of paper about with absolute assurance, by the tape over the top), and yet so easy to take apart if you turn it over (at the bottom of the box) that a

5-year-old can do it.

Looking forward to ripping the sacks open, thanks to this thread.

john

[Mark Williams]

If you mean the sort with a single row of stitching on one side and interlocking loops on the other, then:

- Start from the end where the `blunt' ends of the loops point.

- Cut off the excess `tail'.

- From the single row side (still at the same end), tease the end of the string through the first hole (nearest the end), without pulling any string through the second hole. This should leave a single loop hanging loose on the other side.

- Hold the corner of the sack steady and pull string from the single row side.