Worx defeats Milwaukee product team

[jimreed2160]

OK. I love Milwaukee tools and their driver bit sets are the best around--EXCEPT for the impossible blister package. They are impossibly sturdy and I always have trouble opening them. When a new set arrived just one week after my recent hand surgery, I knew I was in for trouble. But I did not know that it would take almost an hour to liberate the two sets from that DANG plastic.

So I was all ears when a fellow GJ member showed off the new Worx trimmer. I picked it up today at HD along with a spare Milwaukee bitset and then used it to open the package. Well, it took three cuts and less than ONE MINUTE to chew through the plastic. I was impressed.

To the Milwaukee product design team--you guys did a great job and then your decision maker fumbled on the ONE YARD line. The crappy packaging makes for a disasterous beginning to the user experience. And to anyone who is old enough to know who Howdy Doody is, you need one of these Worx trimmers. Heck, it even opens bags of Cheetos.

 

[GTO]

Worx 1
Milwaukee 0

 

[Alexander]

Depending on my mood when I'm opening blister packaging, I usually use a box cutter, tin snips, or the bandsaw.

The last option there is also the most satisfying.

 

[ScottsGT]

You can thank shop lifters for this kind of excessive packaging. I hate that once open, you really cannot return it without some form of grief from the store. I keep a similar set of shears handy just for this.

 

[reptilezs]

loss prevention is designed into the product packaging and product

 

[dogdog]

LOL OP, I think you are just getting old and cranky.

you trying to outbeat that dave EEVBlog guy and this AvE guy?

 

[2manytools]

LOL OP, I think you are just getting old and cranky.

you trying to outbeat that dave EEVBlog guy and this AvE guy?

I keep waiting for AvE to chowder up the product he is opening with that mini chainsaw.

I've opened tons of Milwaukee stuff. Not the easiest, but not horrible either. If you don't have a heftier set of scissors, get some Midwest snips. Typically I use my Craftsman 4v scissors to open clamshell packaging.

 

[sweet victory]

EXCEPT for the impossible blister package.

NOTHING BUT HEAVY DUTY

 

[dacan23]

Wonder how the "self" sharpener on that Worx is because a new blade is almost as much as a whole new one.

My Milwaukee scissors easily defeat their packaging, prior to that I used tin snips.
https://www.zoro.com/milwaukee-mult...MIstb-x9qz3gIVUlcMCh3Uig2MEAQYAyABEgL7KPD_BwE

 

[jd_1138]

I just use a set of scissors. Cut across the longest side of the blister pack, then cut alongside the side. Takes like 20 seconds. But then again, I didn't have hand surgery like the OP.

It's a shame that piece of s--t shoplifters have made blister packs and security tags a reality.

 

[jimreed2160]

Thanks for the comments, dudes. I know about the shoplifting stuff and retail loss prevention is a big business but retail is shifting now. I ordered the first set on line and had them shipped to the house. Someday soon most of their bit sets will probably be sold that way. Still seems a little extreme to me.

 

[dr_clyde]

Meh, I just use a pair of aviation snips or the bandsaw. I rarely have trouble with packaging.

 

[kctyphoon]

The Milwaukee scissors have no problem cutting their packages

 

[PureLeaf]

click bait

 

[Ign]

Yep, the longer, offset Milwaukee scissors are the best for blister packaging. Ironically they also come in blister packaging, but once you defeat that first package you're golden 'cause you now have your scissors for all future packaging stupidities

 

[Caparris]

Big *** scissors, cut 3 sides, done.

 

[PCMusicGuy]

Glad you got a new tool to play with. Kuhn Rikon kitchen shears are my usual go to. I'm sure these would have worked in a few seconds, even with hand surgery.

 

[Farmall450]

HF Meat Scissors ftw

 

[bwringer]

I'd love to see a little compressed air port on these stupid blister packs.

Give 'er a little squirt of compressed air, there's an almighty BANG, the pack pops open, and your stuff is free.

 

[cheechi]

Nobody else uses a nibbler or air shears?

Pruning shears have opened a few tools in my garage in years past also before I got my shop snips and their little cousin the soft touch snips. but after reading this my bandsaw will get at least 100% more usage.

HF has a green handled set that they advertise cutting up aluminium cans and they look like paramedic cut your clothes off scissors; I have found them kind of flimsy feeling but decent at plastic packages. Rarely my first choice though. Husky used to sell a 4 pack of Titanium coated scissors in big-small sizes, the biggest is spring loaded and works great for these packages too.

Choices are a bit different when you don't have full use of your hands.

 

[Tom White]

Ok. Ok. So you got the Milwaukee packaging open.

But....

We are still waiting for proof that it works (or should that be Worxs) on the Cheetos bag. That is the real test of its worthiness.

So come on, where are the pictures?

 

[2manytools]

Totally forgot about the cast cutting scissors I use of my Dads. They eat through anything non-metal no problem. They don't look like much, but they do wonders. I really should use them more.

Thanks for justifying me getting a Milwaukee Fuel Bandsaw.

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

4 out of 5 shoplifters prefer:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003I85GT6/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[jimreed2160]

So the madness continues. Used my Worx cutter to dive into the Milwaukee scissors blister. Then I used the Milwaukee scissors to cut into the light blister. The light was sealed to the edge and only the scissors would get close enough to liberate it.

So now I think I have a proper tool kit to battle the Milwaukee blisters with. Thanks for the tips.

 

[dogdog]

So the madness continues. Used my Worx cutter to dive into the Milwaukee scissors blister. Then I used the Milwaukee scissors to cut into the light blister. The light was sealed to the edge and only the scissors would get close enough to liberate it.

So now I think I have a proper tool kit to battle the Milwaukee blisters with. Thanks for the tips.

^^^
LMFAO, you just have too much time on your hand....

 

[winlinmac]

Wingman Leatherman to the rescue

 

[jgromada]

that works cutter looks just like the Skil i have: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S0DY3LQ/?tag=atomicindus08-20

it is an iXo which is a Bosch design, works great on cutting cardboard too