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| (...) Actually, yes you can. Larry Pieniazek brought this up. He mentioned that the hardest part was getting the handles off without breaking them. I tried his method and it worked great. Then I found if you have a good serrated knife (and don't (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) Oh yeah, I remember that now back on RTL. I want to try and use a hacksaw though. -Tom McD. tfn, radiotitan@yahoo.com (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) I took another look at the buckets last night and I've decided not to spend the extra enegry in cutting out the bars, it only takes a second to rip off the handle and crossbar but it looks like it would take several minutes per bucket to saw (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) I bet an ATLAS saw would work great for that, it's designed to cut plastic quickly without gumming up the saw teeth. I dunno if ATLAS still makes them but I have a 20+ year old one rattling around somewhere... (URL) I just dug around.. Grr, I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) I didn't bother to look since you didn't find it. What does such a saw look like? I bet a bolt cutter would do it. Overkill, but fast... -Tom McD. tfn, radiotitan@yahoo.com (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) With the hacksaw method, where you have to pull the crossbar out, yes. With my method of cutting the bar out while it is the bucket, no. It took me less than 30 seconds to turn my orange bucket into a trick or treat bucket for the kids. Rob (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) Very thin blade with small teeth. Large undulation in the teeth, and in the blade itself so that the teeth stay clean (and the blade doesn't jam in the cut, as the cut is significantly wider than the blade). Blade is mounted from the top in a (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) A Dremel-type moto-tool works wonders... Robert Wallace robertw@netcom.com (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.storage)
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