Gripple Wire system
Lizzie27
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Does anybody else use these and is there a way of releasing the wire and re-using the green Gripple tensioners. I stupidly cut my wires when we had new fence panels put up and now need to reinstate them. I suspect however they work much like plastic ties.
North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
You carefully use it to release the little tag inside that makes the grip wheel tighten but nor loosen - just like plastic ties as you say.
It's just as AB says above there's a metal gripper that holds the 'wire', when you push the screwdriver in it presses on the metal and releases the wire.
Billericay - Essex
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WO_mmZjm4E
You need a really small screwdriver (or a gripple releasing key as in the vid)
I had a really thin jewelers screwdriver that worked.
A long thin nail and a pair of pliers may work if you don't have anything else suitable.
PS - you need to keep the little 'spring' depressed while you pull the wire back through.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.