Anyone Else Notice that Cans, Bottles, Plastic Wraps and Drugs are now tough to Open?

[UltraBudgie]

Keep some adjustable pliers around.

momma got one of these things



thing is sharp it dont take no prisoners

[Byrd]

momma got one of these things

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thing is sharp it dont take no prisoners

Yep.  I have one but am more likely to resort to jimmying it with a knife or using da ol' pliers.  Or giving the thing a good whack.

[Encia22]

Yep.  I have one but am more likely to resort to jimmying it with a knife or using da ol' pliers.  Or giving the thing a good whack.

My iron grip isn't what it used to be, so even glass jars with large diameter lids are sometimes a problem. My nonna's solution, whack around the edge of the lid with the back of a knife... When the anti-tamper button pops up, it's good to go and open sesame.

:beer:

[UltraBudgie]

Actually, that's a different kind of physics.  The "slow moving ketchup" is a property of ketchup as a fluid -- it's a "non-Newtonian" fluid. https://www.comsol.com/blogs/non-newtoni...p-quandary

(this has been your science lecture for today.  I'll scurry off now.)

you can also hit the '57' on the side.

[jaded]

Manufacturing, any help is hard to find much less good help.

When the lid is put on anything with a inner seal that you have to pull or pop off, if the machine temp is too high it forms a tiny rim (hard to see easier to feel) right under the plastic or paper seal. The twist cap only can really screw off the threads till it hits that lip caused by overheating.

Then it's either plier-time or putting the bottle on the floor an using all your weight to leverage the cap's unscrewing over that lip. Or obviously using a device made to muscle the product.

Altho blow-mold not paying attention & the bottles threads not being correct is the other biggie.

[Waterglass]

I posted a link to something similar a while back.  What's happening is "shrinkflation."

The size of packaging is shrinking (and in the case of bottles and so forth, this also means that cap size is shrinking slightly.

Now... if you'll remember your physics (or even if you don't), if something is small, it takes more energy to make it turn than if it's large.  Here's a USA Today article about it: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...719362007/

So, it's not you... it's manufacturing.   Keep some adjustable pliers around.

 
Keep some adjustable pliers around.

Thanks and I agree with you