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Those scissors apparently have a habit of the handle melting away (see reviews): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SSVNNZC https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SSVNNZC As o

Those scissors apparently have a habit of the handle melting away (see reviews): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SSVNNZC https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SSVNNZC As one comment pointed out, they could be using nitrocellulose in the handle.

jrootabega 2y ago
Can you copy or screenshot one? Amazon requires login to sort through reviews for some people.
- jperras 2y ago
  The reviews are on the Scotch site itself, not on Amazon: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/ https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/
fourthark 2y ago
I find no mention of melting in the reviews. Are you joking?
- jperras 2y ago
  Sorry, the reviews are actually on the Scotch site itself: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/ https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/
  - jrootabega 2y ago
    The one review I found with the word "melting," or anything conceptually close to this, was "My Favorite Scissors have Died!" The person is not describing melting in the heat or deformation sense, which I think a lot of people would have assumed. Rather, they're exuding a liquid, like a lot of old rubber materials. To be generous, I'll wonder if maybe it's flammable.
tim333 2y ago
I had a look and didn't find one where they melted. Do you have a link to the specific review?
grues-dinner 2y ago
After another pair of kitchen scissors had the plastic handle fall off, revealing a tiny metal tang creating the inevitable weak spot, I went looking for an all-metal pair. Not at all easy to source as it turns out, there are only a small handful of even vaguely reasonably priced models available. They're just scissors, how are we still as a species finding ways to make them shitter and more breakable? They're a solved problem and yet some guy managed to hit on a way make them out of melting plastic? I don't need them to be laser etched or artisanal or blessed by levitating monks or whatever. Just two bits of metal with a rivet that will still be scissor-shaped when I'm dead and buried. It's not even that much more metal than plastic handled scissors, and the hard bit is in the edges anyway, not the handles. It's probably never been cheaper or easier to make not-shit things and yet there's just so much shit everywhere.
- fritzo 2y ago
  Labor has never been more expensive than now. Raw resources have never been under more competition than now. We as a species are more numerous and consume more scissors than ever before. Supply chains have never farther separated end user from producer, as now.
  - grues-dinner 2y ago
    Scissors have never required less labour to make and steel is maybe not quite as cheap as 5 years ago but still mind meltingly cheap in historical terms. The metal in the handles of an all-metal pair of scissors is maybe a dollar. Bulk steel is 50 cents a pound. Scissors also don't have to be "consumed", or at least not substantially over the course of a human life. I'd expect them to be durable goods. It's more than possible to make a pair of scissors, for not even that much more that a shit pair, that outlasts the first owner. We just generally choose not to.
    - mech9879876 2y ago
      It's a lot cheaper to cut the blades out of flat sheet metal and affix the injection molded plastic handles to give a nice 3d sculpted ergonomic handle than it is to cast/forge/machine the ergonomic handle out of steel. For 90 percent of users it will be just fine to use plastic, and the plastic will last for decades without issue.
RobotToaster 2y ago
I doubt they would use nitrocellulose, genuine celluloid is expensive and hard to obtain in my experience.
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jrootabega 2y ago

Can you copy or screenshot one? Amazon requires login to sort through reviews for some people.

jperras 2y ago
The reviews are on the Scotch site itself, not on Amazon: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/ https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/

fourthark 2y ago

I find no mention of melting in the reviews. Are you joking?

jperras 2y ago
Sorry, the reviews are actually on the Scotch site itself: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/ https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/
- jrootabega 2y ago
  The one review I found with the word "melting," or anything conceptually close to this, was "My Favorite Scissors have Died!" The person is not describing melting in the heat or deformation sense, which I think a lot of people would have assumed. Rather, they're exuding a liquid, like a lot of old rubber materials. To be generous, I'll wonder if maybe it's flammable.

tim333 2y ago

I had a look and didn't find one where they melted. Do you have a link to the specific review?

grues-dinner 2y ago

After another pair of kitchen scissors had the plastic handle fall off, revealing a tiny metal tang creating the inevitable weak spot, I went looking for an all-metal pair. Not at all easy to source as it turns out, there are only a small handful of even vaguely reasonably priced models available. They're just scissors, how are we still as a species finding ways to make them shitter and more breakable? They're a solved problem and yet some guy managed to hit on a way make them out of melting plastic? I don't need them to be laser etched or artisanal or blessed by levitating monks or whatever. Just two bits of metal with a rivet that will still be scissor-shaped when I'm dead and buried. It's not even that much more metal than plastic handled scissors, and the hard bit is in the edges anyway, not the handles. It's probably never been cheaper or easier to make not-shit things and yet there's just so much shit everywhere.

fritzo 2y ago
Labor has never been more expensive than now. Raw resources have never been under more competition than now. We as a species are more numerous and consume more scissors than ever before. Supply chains have never farther separated end user from producer, as now.
- grues-dinner 2y ago
  Scissors have never required less labour to make and steel is maybe not quite as cheap as 5 years ago but still mind meltingly cheap in historical terms. The metal in the handles of an all-metal pair of scissors is maybe a dollar. Bulk steel is 50 cents a pound. Scissors also don't have to be "consumed", or at least not substantially over the course of a human life. I'd expect them to be durable goods. It's more than possible to make a pair of scissors, for not even that much more that a shit pair, that outlasts the first owner. We just generally choose not to.
  - mech9879876 2y ago
    It's a lot cheaper to cut the blades out of flat sheet metal and affix the injection molded plastic handles to give a nice 3d sculpted ergonomic handle than it is to cast/forge/machine the ergonomic handle out of steel. For 90 percent of users it will be just fine to use plastic, and the plastic will last for decades without issue.

RobotToaster 2y ago

I doubt they would use nitrocellulose, genuine celluloid is expensive and hard to obtain in my experience.

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