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Jenks
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PostPosted: 12:08 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: metal block... with something in it.... Reply with quote
hi all. for our wedding, one of our presents was an alu block...

Now, its been hollowed out, presents put in, a stopper turned, and put back in... and milled over...

See picture...

Now we want to open it of course.. but they havent given me any clues, apart from im not allowed to take anything from work, or bring it in to open it... apart from a file...

I really dont want to ruin it at all by opening it..

Ideas???

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v461/ylldeath/20120704_125701.jpg
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PostPosted: 12:12 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Heat? Stand it in a bowl of hot water maybe?
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PostPosted: 12:14 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Super-glue a bar across the stopper bit (the circle?) and unscrew it.
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PostPosted: 12:15 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
SlimRick wrote:
Heat? Stand it in a bowl of hot water maybe?


or do the inverse and chill it down?
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PostPosted: 12:37 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Assuming it screws in in someway get one of those vacuum sucker glass lifters and use that to take out the stopper
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PostPosted: 12:38 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hetzer wrote:
Super-glue a bar across the stopper bit (the circle?) and unscrew it.


or in similar vein araldite a large nut on to the stopper and twist or screw a bolt into the nut and pull
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PostPosted: 12:39 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
sebastianw wrote:
Assuming it screws in in someway get one of those vacuum sucker glass lifters and use that to take out the stopper


Or, get your wife to squat on it, then turn the base.

Cheaper.
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PostPosted: 12:47 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
People that creative have probably also reversed the thread for comedy purposes.

Two of those little shower hook sucker things at either side and just twist. Try both directions though Wink
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PostPosted: 13:11 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=91781&Referrer=googleproductsearch

https://www.tooled-up.com/ShowImage.ashx?Type=3&File=DRA69187_SCDP1.jpg&Man=DRA&Size=250
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PostPosted: 13:15 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
pits wrote:
https://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=91781&Referrer=googleproductsearch

https://www.tooled-up.com/ShowImage.ashx?Type=3&File=DRA69187_SCDP1.jpg&Man=DRA&Size=250


The present inside is probably a coupon for one of those. Or the present is worth less than what one of those costs. Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:19 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
What does the writing on the side of it (the box) say?

Everyone's assumed so far that the plug is screwed in. Do we know that for a fact?
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PostPosted: 13:27 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd have been happy with a solid aluminium block tbh Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:41 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Surely the solution is something to do with the file? Has them milling over the top of it burred the edges over the circular cap, so you just file out the burrs where the block and circular cap meet and the circle falls out?
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PostPosted: 13:50 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
we need moar pictures!!
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Jenks
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PostPosted: 15:28 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
them re-milling it, - was their attempt to hide the stopper. to make it harder to find how to get in it.

Writing is just happy wedding ect...

i can 98% say it wont be a screwed in cap..

More than likely nearly exactilly the same size or a little smaller than the opening, and pushed in. - knowing the machinists at work...
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PostPosted: 15:29 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
id presume the file 'solution' is because it would take a hell of a long time to do... when we started our apprentiship - we had to file every day all day for 2-3 months....
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PostPosted: 15:31 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
is it possible the milling is hiding another feature / release
and the circle is a red herring
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PostPosted: 15:43 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
My suspicion is that this hasn't been done with an obvious way to get into it in mind. It isn't one of those chinese puzzle boxes. It's just been closed back up again, end of. No right or wrong answer, just a frustrated Jenks - therein lies the humour, for whoever made it.

I'd start by holding it down in a really hot bath and see if the combination of expanding metal and increased interior pressure pops the bung out.
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PostPosted: 15:45 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
whack the fucker with a sledge hammer
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PostPosted: 15:48 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
angryjonny wrote:
I'd start by holding it down in a really hot bath and see if the combination of expanding metal and increased interior pressure pops the bung out.

There's every chance that water ingress could ruin whatever's inside.
I'd freeze the whole thing, and then use a hot air gun to try and force it to expand unevenly.
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PostPosted: 15:54 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
colicabcadam wrote:
whack the fucker with a sledge hammer
Jenks wrote:
...I really dont want to ruin it at all by opening it...

Too much to ask you read the original thread post rather than just take a guess? Confused
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PostPosted: 15:54 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
nowhere.elysium wrote:
angryjonny wrote:
I'd start by holding it down in a really hot bath and see if the combination of expanding metal and increased interior pressure pops the bung out.

There's every chance that water ingress could ruin whatever's inside.

You don't have to submerge the whole thing. Leave it upright.
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PostPosted: 15:58 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's empty, they were too tight to get you a present.

Sorry.
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PostPosted: 15:59 - 04 Jul 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
map wrote:
colicabcadam wrote:
whack the fucker with a sledge hammer
Jenks wrote:
...I really dont want to ruin it at all by opening it...

Too much to ask you read the original thread post rather than just take a guess? Confused


it's an ally box, not a diamond

whack is shitless, then prove to them at work that you are the man

hell, it'll even be funnier if you angle grind it in half LOL
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