Pliers for Grabbing Human Hair

[Wamsutta]

We've all seen that wad of hair wrapped around a shopping cart's wheel. What if you wanted to yank it out? What would you use? I've tried nose pliers and duck bill pliers. Any pliers with teeth in the jaws and the hair slips right on past in between the teeth. Maybe it's tweezers I want; I don't know. If they were tweezers, they have to be fairly long and heavy duty. I would rather have pliers if at all possible. Please suggest something.

 

[darkzero]

Is it your shopping cart? If not mine, I wouldn't care & grab another one. But if it is yours & just hair, torch it!

 

[superduty1]

You can't make this stuff up.

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[MarvinBerry]

Can't say I've ever had my hair caught in a shopping cart and I'm a long haired hippie mutherfukker. Huh.

 

[Wamsutta]

I tried using one of those barbecue lighters. The smell of burning human hair gets tiring quick; plus, the flame just gets the hair sticking out past the hubcap. The flame doesn't get the hair down behind the hubcap.

 

[darkzero]

Shopping carts have hub caps?

I assume it's not a shopping cart that you actually are talking about but whatever. I was thinking more like a propane torch. I have this one & it lights up instantly when you push the button so you can torch the hairs instantly & in momentary bursts of high heat.

 

[thertel]

Unbolt the wheel, remove wheel, clean out the ick, then bolt it back up after lubing it.

It tends to be wrapped around so much that you're not going to be able to pull it out.

 

[ChrisLS8]

Going above and beyond. HD will make someone the official shopping cart bossman.

 

[Wamsutta]

Yes they have hubcaps, but the caster companies usually call them thread guards. They're plastic and are stationary while the wheel is turning, but they can be turned by hand if need be. The hair gets caught between the hubcap and the wheel. Unbolting the wheel from the caster hanger makes it easier, but some of the wheels that have never been replaced are still riveted. Too much flame melts the hubcap. I've given up on the flame idea. The casters on the HD carts are made by a company called Pemco.

 

[darkzero]

Smooth jaw pliers would probably work better at grabbing hair if they are good quality.

 

[Wamsutta]

I was thinking about some smooth jaw duck bill pliers; that would be prefect if they grabbed well.

 

[darkzero]

I've got these 2 saved in my cart.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EXO0UY/?tag=atomicindus08-20

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003RWS9JC/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[kctyphoon]

Yet - it's my threads that management deletes....


Something thin with teeth, torch, screwdriver and scissors.

 

[Hytekrednek]

maybe Nair? Dissolve that stuff!

 

[snickers muncher]

lol I actually kinda know what he's talking about...hair/string getting wrapped around a riveted axle. My solution was to use one of those cheap thin bladed snap knives. Slide the blade in there and start sawing away. You won't be able to just pull the stuff out because of how tightly wrapped it can get.

 

[rlitman]

lol I actually kinda know what he's talking about...hair/string getting wrapped around a riveted axle. My solution was to use one of those cheap thin bladed snap knives. Slide the blade in there and start sawing away. You won't be able to just pull the stuff out because of how tightly wrapped it can get.

+1 for the blade. + another 1 if you've got 30 degree 9mm blades like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009F6BMQQ/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Cut the hair, and it comes off easily. But when it's wrapped around and around, no amount of pulling will work until it snaps. And it never snaps where you want it to. May as well cut it.

As for this task itself, for me, it comes up every so often when cleaning my vacuum power nozzle brush. Those all have baffles meant to stop hair from getting in, yet it still manages to get all the way to the bushing eventually.

 

[Ton ton]

I have had baler twine wrapped around a skid loader axle.

 

[RTM]

I’m in the knife camp with rlitman, for the same reason, the vacuum cleaner.

 

[Davefr]

SO 196CF vs **** hair, the pliers won:

 

[fatfillup]

Have you tried shaving it off? I know that works well on various body parts,,,,,,,,,so I am told

 

[nh_yota]

Wrap some electrical tape around the plier jaws and get it done. Jeez.

 

[RTM]

I have a smallish pair of hemostats w interlocking teeth, which works decently too.

 

[rlitman]

SO 196CF vs **** hair, the pliers won:

Do you pull nose hairs with those too?

 

[Parrothead]

Unbolt the wheel, remove wheel, clean out the ick, then bolt it back up after lubing it.

It tends to be wrapped around so much that you're not going to be able to pull it out.

A better example from the OP would have been a vacuum cleaner, but maybe I’m the only one who cleans mine?

In that situation I use a razor blade and my Klein needle nose pliers.

 

[Evilunclegrimace]

I have a smallish pair of hemostats w interlocking teeth, which works decently too.

I second the hemostats, I have several pairs for grasping/grabbing small objects from tight spaces

 

[Bigblockyeti]

Going above and beyond. HD will make someone the official shopping cart bossman.

They don't even have cashiers any more, I think you're more likely to see a disorganized mess of carts you have to get yourself then be followed around by an autonomous drone to make sure you don't steal anything or mess anything up in an otherwise humanless warehouse. Then you'll have to check yourself out, like I already do and good luck getting any competent help with loading should you need it.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

A wire pick like in the pic. Pull out the material wrapped around the axel, cut if necessary. Rotate opposite direction of normal use and unwrap. These are actually meant for tracing low voltage wire.
Amazon sells them asthe following:
Jonard JIC-22035/10 Yellow Nylon Insulating Probe Pick Spudger with Insulated Wire Hook, 7" Length (Pack of 10)

 

[seber]

Check optical pliers. There are a great many with soft jaws. They will grab hair easily.

 

[1982fxr]

We've all seen that wad of hair wrapped around a shopping cart's wheel. What if you wanted to yank it out? What would you use? I've tried nose pliers and duck bill pliers. Any pliers with teeth in the jaws and the hair slips right on past in between the teeth. Maybe it's tweezers I want; I don't know. If they were tweezers, they have to be fairly long and heavy duty. I would rather have pliers if at all possible. Please suggest something.

1. Change screen name to Bubbles

2. Hire Cory and Trevor away from Julian to help with carts

3. Try to forgive Ricky for letting you think it was your fault Ray's trailer burned down

 

[SeisMec]

Unbolting the wheel from the caster hanger makes it easier, but some of the wheels that have never been replaced are still riveted.

IMHO Use an angle grinder with a cut off wheel to remove the rivet head and replace the rivet with a bolt. (You can use the replacement bolt to drive the remains of the rivet out.) The replacement bolt needs an unthreaded shank that is more than 1/2 the thickness of the wheel so the threads won't chew-up the plastic wheel. If the theads of the bolt protrude too far past the nut, cut off the excess right at the nut face using the same angle grinder. (At the nut face, so you don't leave exposed sharp edges to injure hapless customers.)

 

[PugetDude]

Brazilian Wax.

 

[PugetDude]

1. Change screen name to Bubbles

2. Hire Cory and Trevor away from Julian to help with carts

3. Try to forgive Ricky for letting you think it was your fault Ray's trailer burned down

1928fxr wins the internet this week.

 

[Peoria Man]

Worse is when you're vacuuming the floor and the hair gets wound up between the drive pulley and the belt. It'll bind up and stink like burned hair and burned rubber. Doesn't take more than just a few 30" hairs to create a problem; the stuff is tougher than cable once its wound around multiple times.

 

[1982fxr]

1928fxr wins the internet this week.

It's good to be appreciated lol

 

[RedneckWelder]

1. Change screen name to Bubbles

2. Hire Cory and Trevor away from Julian to help with carts

3. Try to forgive Ricky for letting you think it was your fault Ray's trailer burned down

Damn it you beat me to it

 

[KnurledNut]

$8 gets you a new caster.
Assuming this cart belongs to your employer, have them order some to stock.
Kinda surprised any sizable business with shopping carts doesn’t have a cart tech contracted or a call away.

 

[bob15]

Buy better needle nose pliers. Used to have issues with shade tobacco netting getting wrapped around tractor axles. Needle nose pliers and a knife always seemed to work for me.

 

[larry_g]

I use an E-xacto type knife to cut the wad so that it will split and fall or be pushed out. I do the same on the vacuum beater brush. Cut till there are no hairs/strings that make a complete wrap around the axle.

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no neat sig line

 

[driftpin]

Hemostats.

I would cut the hair, I usually use an Xacto knife. I agree that disassembly is probably the best approach.

Our son gave us a Dyson vacuum, one of those multiple-cyclone-looking ones, it had our D.I.L.'s thick black hair wrapped around the platen (that's what the 'rolling pins' are called on a typewriter) and it worked a 'whole-lot better once I cut all the hair off it. I used a sharp pair of scissors, it took <10 minutes. A similar circumstance.

 

[Lassen Forge]

Vise grips and needle nose, also helps to have a serrated steak knife to cut it loose as you unwind it.

As you're pulling turn the wheel (or vacuum attachment drum, or lathe spindle, or VW crank pulley, or whatever) in the direction to unwind the hair (and scalp or other private parts ) from whatever it's bound up in.