For a reference you can go to the The Glossary of Geocaching Terms. Most terms used below are defined on this website.
Below is a list of terms showing possible combinations to open the hand-made cryptex. If you cannot figure out the correct combination from the hint and provided website then you can always try the brute force approach by trying every combination in the list.
ALR
OCB
DNF
FTF
GPX
LPC
APE
Code hint: The initilism denoting a log type where a geocacher could not locate the cache.
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Oh yea - BYOP!