by raimundo » 3 Apr 2006 12:16
when the thread started, I explained that the idea was because I saw that people who are kidnapped in iraq are put in the plastic restraints.
My most recent thoughts on making something so small as to be easily carried in a boot or something, since the large nail clippers are too large to carry easily, think about what they are, two metal cutters and a large structure to hold them in place and apply pressure.
Now I am thinking that the knotblock of the plasticuff is a structure that could be used to hold and apply pressure to some small tool that goes into the block and fulcrums off it internally, with perhaps a small blade that cuts a portion of the cuffs flat band at each position so that it would not attempt to cut the whole thing in one stroke, but would nibble through the band, just behind the pawl. in that way, the cuff could be seriously weakened before it is apparent to the captors. cutting more than halfway through the band inside the block where the cut is not readily apparent. if both edges of the band were nibbled away, and the cuff was of the type with the metal pawl, it would be possible to just use that pawl for the final break. the concept here is to use the structure that is the cuff as most of the structure of the cutter. a tiny lever and cutting tool that could be carried in a ballpoint pen or a pack of chewing gum. a tool that only attacks a nibble at a time.
They do not go off on a metal detector, and you can where em under or in your belt or some place.
