shredder efficacy

[isik]

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@Horseshoez wrote:

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@isik wrote:

According to every movie ever made, they can also be used to open locked doors.

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@NoMoreE46 wrote:

I use the plastic ones for spackling.

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@isik wrote:

I keep my cards. They work well as squeegee tools.

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In many cases they can; I live in a townhome complex built in 2021, so basically new everything, and yet there were a bunch of kids roaming around last summer and fall, and they used old credit cards to get into several of my neighbor's homes.  I tried to warn them to use the deadbolts (also installed on each of our exterior doors), but they didn't listen.

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Yeah I guess it might work with unlocked doors.

[Horseshoez]

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@isik wrote:

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@Horseshoez wrote:

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@isik wrote:

According to every movie ever made, they can also be used to open locked doors.

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@NoMoreE46 wrote:

I use the plastic ones for spackling.

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@isik wrote:

I keep my cards. They work well as squeegee tools.

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In many cases they can; I live in a townhome complex built in 2021, so basically new everything, and yet there were a bunch of kids roaming around last summer and fall, and they used old credit cards to get into several of my neighbor's homes.  I tried to warn them to use the deadbolts (also installed on each of our exterior doors), but they didn't listen.

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Yeah I guess it might work with unlocked doors.

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It works with doors where the handle is locked but the deadbolt is unlocked.

[Thomas_Thumb]

Seriously, have you never experienced snow? Keep an old credit card to scrape icy snow off the front and driver/ passanger front side windows.

If you have too many old cards, burn the excess. If they are metal, that's your problem.

[isik]

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@Thomas_Thumb wrote:

Seriously, have you never experienced snow? Keep an old credit cards to scrape icy snow off the front and driver/ passanger front side windows.

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Too small for that IMO. Maybe for mirrors if they aren't heated.

I miss snow... (in TX now)

[Horseshoez]

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@Thomas_Thumb wrote:

Seriously, have you never experienced snow? Keep an old credit card to scrape icy snow off the front and driver/ passanger front side windows.

If you have too many old cards, burn the excess. If they are metal, that's your problem.

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Credit cards won't cut it up here in New Hamster; I have a special ice scraper with a brass blade (brass is softer than glass and will not scratch).

[IsFiveCardsEnough]

The only time I've ever used a credit card to scrape icy windows was when I traveled to NH in 2018.  It was mid April but it decided to be cold, snowy and icy the WHOLE time I was there (I moved south FROM there to get away from that).  I had a rental car and couldn't find an ice scraper in the trunk, so I had to use a card.  I think I actually used a Best Buy rewards program card, not an actual credit card, but it was essentially the same sort of plastic card, but with no chip to get damaged.

Eventually, I discovered, in the back seat of that rental car, an ice scraper.

If you have an expired metal card, it would probably work better to remove ice than a plastic card.

[Thomas_Thumb]

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@Horseshoez wrote:

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@Thomas_Thumb wrote:

Seriously, have you never experienced snow? Keep an old credit card to scrape icy snow off the front and driver/ passanger front side windows.

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Credit cards won't cut it up here in New Hamster; I have a special ice scraper with a brass blade (brass is softer than glass and will not scratch).

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Ha ha - New Hamster, I like that.

I did use an old card a couple times after an unexpected early winter snow. It did not hold up too well. It was actually a AAA card - I didn't have an expired credit card available.