How to remove a security tag from clothing...

Is it an ink one?

The grey ones have a curved pin that unlocks the pin bit. Bent wire will probably do.

Keep it on as a fashion accessory...

If it's the one with a pin going through the item into a plastic tag with a small dome on the back, then a strong magnet on the domed bit will release the pin. Just sort of push the pin down while holding the domed bit into the magnet and it'll release.

Not a shoplifter, a former shop worker!

Apparently a fairly strong magnet will get them off

Try Googling 'how to remove a security tag'.

https://www.wikihow.com/Remove-a-Security-Tag-from-Clothing

Hammer FTW

If it's an ink one, we all await the new Badger thread.

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Postierich to the forum...

Hammer FTW

This, if it's the plastic-tag-with-dome-thing-and-RFID-inside type. I can confirm it works nicely.

Not so much if it's the ink type.

Not sure, and want a quick & easy way to find out if it's the ink type? Hit it with a hammer 😁

Shame you were using your foil lined shopping bag, otherwise this could have been avoided at the time.

Take it with the receipt to a nearer clothes shop. They'll do it.

Ink ones rarely used these days, although I heard you can pop them in the freezer

Must be a youtube vid on this?

I had this with a cycling Jersey I bought from Wheelbase in Staverley. I ending up posting it back to them and getting them to take it out for me and post it back.

I have a small pile of hard disk magnets I collected but couldn't get them to work.

Goodluck!

Seriously, the last one I removed I simply wrecked the dome with pliers/pincers and removed it. 

The ink only stayed on my face for a fortnight

I found crushing in a vice was more controllable than a hammer.

When you do get it off don't forget to hide it in someones coat so they set the alarms off everytime they go to the shops 🙂

I like to pay at the checkout.

I’ve had this twice now a hammer and vice makes quick work.

When you do get it off don’t forget to hide it in someones coat so they set the alarms off everytime they go to the shops 🙂

When I worked in a shop it turned out someones kid had actually done this to them to get revenge. Kid was an evil genius!

If it’s the grey ones I tried a fishing magnet and it wasn’t powerful enough.

It was one of the thin ish grey ones so wasn’t an ink one. I drilled through the top of the dome and managed to pop the pin out.

Funnily enough I need to do it again - bought some overshoes in the sale at Evans cycles the other day and the (utterly thick) shop guy didn’t notice it had a tag on. He was flipping useless though with any questions I asked him about sizing / fit etc.

Maul grips. No, not that one.

A Dremel is affective too, but you need sufficient clearance and a steady hand.

MCTD has gone silent.

Ive got a picture of him in my head now, all maced up, cuffed up and with an anti spit mask on.

Free the STW One!

However... If MCTD really needs help i vote we airlift WCA in with a bunch of power tools, followed by a call to the local hospital to get a couple of beds prepped.

I found crushing in a vice was more controllable less fun than a hammer.

 

However… If MCTD really needs help i vote we airlift WCA in with a bunch of power tools, followed by a call to the local hospital to get a couple of beds prepped.

I'd love to meet WCA, but in a strictly tool free environment!

Been out at a concert tonight, will be attempting the "bash it with a hammer" solution tomorrow.

Been out at a concert tonight

Building up the alibi, eh?

You were on the forum all night. We got you covered.

Years ago, whenever a mate of mine went into shops, their alarm would go off, forcing him to open his bag to inspection, and sometimes on the way back out of the same shop.

It wasn’t for some time that, while looking for something in his wallet, he found one of those little square tag things that look like a heating element that had been in the wallet when he bought it several months before…