bigloaf

For what it's worth, I work at a hardware store and we sell hose clamps that have a plastic wingnut on them so that they can be hand tightened without any tools. They look like this: Turn Key Clamps

Yeah, I decoded the hexadecimal a while back. It says something like "most puzzle caches start with a block of letters that need to be translated into another form. very boring. sorry, try again." I've tried all kinda of things to pull out camouflaged letters from the block and nothing has really worked. I noticed that the block is made up of two identical blocks of text, so I tried crossing my eyes and staring at it like a magic eye picture and no help. I superimposed the two blocks over each other in photoshop and I saw that some of the numbers dont line up right, but I cant make any sense of the numbers I get from doing that either.

A ran across a puzzle cache a few months back, and I've played with it off and on since then, but I'm still clueless on what to do. I'd email the cache owner, but he's archived all of his caches and no longer caches. I don't expect the cache to even be there, I just want to know how the puzzle works. Has anyone ever seen one like this? I already tried translating it from hexadecimal, but that's apparently just a trick and a dead end. Anyone have any ideas?

Simple Green II (GCR6P0) is at the Puente Hills Mall, GCR6P0 The Puente Hills Mall is probably better known to most people as the Twin Pines Mall from Back to the Future. The Mall then The Mall today (more or less)