How do you remove these clips?

[Misc]

Evening,

Wanting to replace a few parts on the car but i'm confronted by these weird looking clips. Quite annoying too as i'm guessing they're not reusable. So, how do i get the buggers off?

https://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4715/61608131.jpg

[MaybeGuy]

they dont tend to use them anymore for ''safety reasons'' which i think is bullshit.

anyway, the only way is to cut them off. i suppose mole grips would work if you just wiggled it till it fatigued and snapped (everyone has a set of them, but its not ideal)

either way, you'll want to be replacing the pipe afterwards if its a vital one.
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Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[Ichy]

[Misc]

Cheers guys, it's for a vacuum hose. The actual clips are much smaller then the one in the photo so i'll give the above methods a go.

[MaybeGuy]

''safety reasons'' being sharp edges or some shit like that.
the MOD and all contracting companies associated with dont use them for this reason.
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[MattHirst]

Don't they know what a file anda burr removal tool is?

Come back when you've finished your apprenticeship and you're not just the dogsbody making tea
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[MaybeGuy]

so you'd cut it, then de-burr it before you removed it? doubt it.

thats like saying ''here, have this knife. but instead of a sheath, have a file so you can blunt it and sharpen it as you use it''.

makes sense

to you
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[MattHirst]

You don't have to cut it, you can expand/splay it out with a screw driver or somet pliers, no sharp edges then.

I assumed you were referring to the sharp edges on the diameter of the clip, de-burr that and you have no sharp edges.

So yes, makes sense to me. Go back to slowly making inferior products on an m300 lathe
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[stinkwheel]

I usually get the tag end of them in a set of end cutters, grip tight and twist.

I crimp the new ones on with a blunted set of end cutters. Which is essentially what the proper crimping tool is.

I've put on and removed many hundreds of those things when I had a holiday job installing oxygenation systems on fish farms.

The one you have there is called a "single ear pinch clamp". You also get "Double ear clamp" ones which have a crimp at either side and are a bit more secure (but harder to get at both sides of in a tight spot).
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