How to untangle a Slinky

[KeithWriter]

Anybody out there have any handy tricks for untangling a Slinky?

 

[Scootin159]

go to a local store & buy a new one. Actually what always worked for me was to start at one end & just straighten it out from there. Well I gues you don't want to make it STRAIGHT, but ya get the idea.

 

[MajesticMoose]

yeah, i really don't think a slinky is too expensive. Rummage through the couch cushions and head on down to walmart.

m00se

 

[skace]

the secret in untangling them is to twist them. but even when you untwist them free, they will always have that annoying cow lick type bend that keeps them from bouncing perfectly.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

cut it and retape it. i made a very very long slingy by expanding mine with two additional slinkies

 

[Scootin159]

<< cut it and retape it. i made a very very long slingy by expanding mine with two additional slinkies >>



Tape? If it's a metal slinky weld it

 

[MichaelD]

Don't be cheap; buy a new one.

....and next time on Hobbies of the Truly Tightwadish, recycling toilet paper; a clean getaway or a stinky mess?"

 

[rayma2]

Once they have been tangled once then there is not hope for them to get back to normal.

 

[TheVrolok]

Perhaps they were designed to have that very flaw? Would make it better for the slinky companies eh, run out and buy a new one constantly.. Diabolical...

 

[polypterus]

How do Slinkies (or Slinky's?) get tangled in the first place?

dc

 

[Electric Amish]

I hate it when I get my slinky tangled!

amish

 

[samgau]

The forums lost my reply again...

It takes lost of patience to untangle a slinky... I know.. I have to do it ocasionally cause my 2yr old keep tangling hers up...

 

[spaceman]

sort of OT for the thread but does anymoe remember the Slinky jingle in its entirety?