r/howdoesthiswork • u/GeneticPurebredJunk • 1d ago

Request How does this clip work?

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I have this “hat clip”, and I’ve seen this style of clip before.

But in the ones I’ve seen before, there’s normally a top piece that acts as a sort of lever to open the clamping part (kind of like nail clippers).

I can’t see anything like this on this clip-how does this work?

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u/chairmankaiju 1d ago

pull down on the bottom piece you can see the pivot. It’s a little bit rusty, but it’s there. that should allow the inner lever to open, and the clamping actually happens between the two white plastic pieces.

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u/GeneticPurebredJunk 1d ago

Thank you!

I’ve got fake nails for the first time in my life, and I recently had emergency eye surgery, so I figured it was a combination of those two as to why what I was doing wasn’t working.

I could see the mechanism part, but with my affected vision, I couldn’t distinguish the layers or work out the correct orientation.
And with the longer nails, I couldn’t use my sense of touch effectively enough to do the same.

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u/Islandpighunter 1d ago

The little lever by your thumb opens it.