HELLERMANNTYTON T18L0M4 Cable Tie, Nylon 6.6 (Polyamide 6.6), Black, 205 mm, 2.5 mm, 55 mm, 18 lb

how to open a cable tie or zip tie with a safety pin the cable tie is a plastic strip that has ribbing like a washboard on one side and has a square hole in the other with a tongue that is the locking mechanism it's held against the ribbed edge when you put the one end through the hole like this that locks it to open it you can use anything that's small and and hard with your fingernail or thumbnail is not hard enough or if the end of it is too far down into the hole and yet still locked you need something tiny to get in there if you don't want to trust yourself with a knife or don't have a knife handy just take the safety pin and you see that the the plastic strip is on the right and the locking tongue is over here next to it it's braced against it on one side so you turn it this way put the safety pin there to pry that tongue away from the ribbing and then if you're lucky and this is