Cutting cut-outs out of an FCU

[AdamW]

I am installing my second FCU of the day. On the first one, the cut out came out perfectly first time. This is the cut-out on the rim of the FCU that lets you run a flex into the unit.

The second one was not so good. I tried using a stanley knife (which worked fine on the first one) and ended up with a face full of plastic shards! Then I thought "I will nibble it out with some snippers". One nibble and the corner shattered off.

One trip to Wickes later and I have another FCU (albeit now a Wickes branded one).

My question is: what is the correct method to remove the cut-out? I am using a brand new Stanley blade so it definitely isn't blunt! I don't have a rasp or file to hand unfortunately, or I would try that.

 

[breezer]

bit late, try junior hack saw

 

[AdamW]

Thanks for the tip... I really must get a junior hacksaw. I have the big one but you know how it is when you go into a tool shop, you always want to buy the big tools. No-one wants the little tools (according to Cosmopolitan, anyway )

In the end, I held the FCU down on an old wooden stool, resting on the face that the flex is to come out of. Then I very carefully drilled through from the inside with a wood bit on a slow speed. The stool stopped the drill bit from shattering the outter side, and also gave a good surface to hold it all against.

Don't know if I would want to use the drill technique again, if you do a few then there is a risk of getting complacent and that is when drills start going through fingers.

 

[securespark]

Now your other half is going to remove your gonads for drilling into the stool which belonged to her Great Great Grandmother and is worth 1500 sovs.......

 

[AdamW]

Nah, I paid attention to what Cliff Richards sang about in Summer Holiday, so a bachelor boy am I.

It's yin and yang: the yin being that I can leave my flat as messy as I like, with tools spread all over the living room floor. The yang being that when I want it tidied I have to do it myself

But from my experience, girls never REALLY remove your gonads, they just say it... I mean, if they could handle the right tools to do it, they wouldn't have needed us there in the first place!

(And I wonder why I am single...)

 

[securespark]

Oh, boy.

Remember Lorena Bobbit??

Cut off her other half's (John Wayne Bobbit) c*ck while he was asleep and later threw it into the gutter from a car window.

Police had to search for it.

Happily, it worked well after being reattached, and he went on to star in p*rn movies. Not sure what's happened since.

 

[AdamW]

They got back together! I remember it being featured on "The Word"... Still, I suppose if your wife cuts it off with a carving knife then the least she can do is let you have a go at being a po*n star.

They actually showed it on "The Word", had a bl**dy great kink in it afterwards if I recall.

Anyway, any more ideas on removing cut-outs from FCUs?

 

[securespark]

I always find very gently with pin nose pliers works for me. (Talking about FCU's not John Wayne Bobbit!!)

 

[Millennium_Boy]

Use a small round file - that works well, and leaves a safe smooth edge, won't chaff the cables.