Thread: Nescafe tins?

I use them to store powder coat powder with a dessicant pill from medication bottles.
Although I think the tins I use are the 1 kilo ones.

Matt

Originally Posted by matthew_g

I use them to store powder coat powder with a dessicant pill from medication bottles.
Although I think the tins I use are the 1 kilo ones.

Matt

Hi Matt
Having just paid for some powdercoating that may be a re-occurring thing, can you elaborate?

Sorry not idea's for the tins Ken.

Ew

Hi Ken,
Well we like I / Roast Coffee, 500g, 150 x 125mm. & when it nears the bottom, I use the E / can opener which takes the lid off.
So when I get a few, I try to drill a hole in the same spot in each one, & Pop Rivet them together, & lay them on there sides.
Amazing what you can put in them, just a matter of finding space for them.
My 2sents worth.

I was actually thinking of a milo tin as we have just emptied a big one, but I had the thought of trying it as a snake trap. Coffee tin would do fine.

Since starting to check for eggs constantly our output has gone from 1-2 per day, up to 8 yesterday. We have seen a number in the area. Snakes that is.

In case anyone is wondering, cut the bottom off with a normal can opener untill just a small amount is left connected. Push this inside slightly. Nail the lid to something fixed, put an egg inside the tin and push onto lid. The snake is supposed to push in but not be able to pull out. A bit like the old monkey trap with a kerosene tin with peanuts in it.

Dean

I used to get them from work. I'd keep an eye on how close to empty it was and grab them out of the bin if I got the chance although I must've missed out on scores. I just keep odds n sods in them and also use the tin for templates and shape it into things. I've noticed there's two types of can with one having ribs in the central part of the body which looks very much like miniature corrugated iron and I've wondered if modellers have noticed it too. As it rusts readily which can be sped up with a vinegar and salt solution it'd be perfect for a model of a tinned roof shack.
PS: I use tin snips to cut through the channel top and down the join the cut the bottom off. I've been known to use old scissors when I can't find the watchamacallets when I've cut the sheet out of the can Careful the stuff is sharp as!

Originally Posted by Ueee

Hi Matt
Having just paid for some powdercoating that may be a re-occurring thing, can you elaborate?

Sorry not idea's for the tins Ken.

Ew

No worries Ew,
Give me an idea of what you want to know and I will start a new thread on it so as we don't hijack Ken's thread.

Matt

My FIL was an "International Roast" man (now that is awful coffee!) and he must have collected every empty tin can he used since WWII. He was a clever/crafty bloke who was in engineering and then later bomb disposal during the war and could fix stuff with a bit of fencing wire and a bent nail. When we cleaned his shed out after he passed away we found dozens of IR can full of used nails, baling twine, stripped copper wire, retic parts, rusty screws, washers nuts and bolts of very size. we reckoned it was a reaction to life during the depression and the war. There were also several hundred empty IR cans in cardboard boxes. I filled up the van with these cans plus a few cardboard boxes of other tin cans and took them in for recycling. Same with glass jars, about 3/4 of a van load of these as well.

I entertained the idea of taping a stack together end to end to make ducting. Would need a lot of them though...

I hate chucking things out, so I have a few Milo tins that I don't know what to do with.

I have an idea for a sculpture made with old tomato tins amongst other things. One day...

They used to make great phones before mobile ones remember.
Two cans one piece of string.
Just think one in the kitchen wall one to the workshop.
No more Texing for a coffee.
The phone company's would go broke .
Not sure our you would go sending a smiley face down the string tho

My dad was an International Roast man too, it must have been a generational thing.
I remember him asking mum when she started to buy fancy coffee like Nescafe, what'll it be next, those bloody tea bag things?
Coffee was International Roast and tea was made with leaves in a pot.
As for coffee from beans? What kind of underpants wearing lily hugger would drink that?

It's coming up on Guy Fawkes night, remember that back before the fun police? Empty coffee tins used to be essential with a few crackers.

As for Ken's empties, cut one up for a bit of shim stock.

Cheers,
Greg.

Oh hell...where to start.... appart from the obvious storage options.

Have you seen what they want for new empty paint tins these days ....use them for mixed up or ready for use paint, cutting, polishing ot wood finishing brews....remember that 4 litre of paint you baught and used 3.5 litres......if ya don't decant it into a small tin it will skin over and dry up...remember to transfer the lable and danger information.

Are you chooks bored....take one of these tins, bash a couple of 1/4 inch holes in it.....fill it with grain, jam the lid on tight and chuck it in the chook pen...it'll keep em amused for at least half an hour.

Are you into fishing...in particular crabbing......bash a fer small holes in one......fill it up with bits of you favorite crab bait jam the lid on and put it in the freezer......straight out of the freezer into the crab pot......and the crabs & other critters wont have eaten all ya bait before you are finished crabbing......if ya in an area with mud crabs...ya might want to wire the lid shut........my best crab bait so far is roast chicken......roast your chicken ( or buy whatever chicken)..eat you share and stuff all the rest in the tin........pull that up, after a few hours in salt water and the aroma of roast chicken is still strong.

again...do the same as a burley pot...you can pay good money for one of those fancy sinking or castable burley pots.....a hand full of gravel and you favorite burley and you are away.

cheap waterprrof containers for camping or on the boat......just that ya phone wont work inside one.

A portable farady cage.......if you are some sort of prepper looney or ya just want to protect or isolate some sort of radio gear.........for example you want to transport a tollway transponder.........a tin can is a perfect faraday cage.


Of course you need to keep a stock for weddings........but come on fellas some craft and workmanship about it......random cans on a piece of string just shows a lack of talent and forethaught........take a series of cans of different sizes, that all nest one inside the other.......drill holes in the bottoms and normal.....thread up with good strong string ( none of that shoddy bdomestic stuff..it wont last past the end of the street)......space the cans with knots.....you will have to do some testing for optimum spacing.....leave a good long lead string for attaching.
nw this whole rig can be stored, one can inside another with the lead rop all tucked in......if you are a young boke of a certain age you should have one of these in the boot of your car always....like you should have a range of greeting cards in your glovebox..

This rig can be very rapidly deployed and gives a far more satisfying sound than random tins.

the poor mans burgular alarm.
take a large tin, fill it with big washers, metal off cuts and other noisy stuff and leave it on your windowsill.

OH the uses are endless.

cheers

Agree with all of the above re possible uses.

Unfortunately, the tins today are not what they used to be. I have some 20 odd year old tins which are still ok but the new tins [tin in name only] rust as soon as you start to wash them out.

With regards the "modern" paint tin…...

I was a "little" annoyed a few weeks ago when stirring a brand new 4L tin of paint from a branded supplier not the rubbish stuff - fairly gluggy on the bottom so I grabbed my drill paint stirrer and stirred away - the stirrer is plastic/nylon by the way. I had the tin sitting on newspaper [fortunately] on the bench, after stirring for a few minutes I gave the paint a rest while I had a coffee, thinking I would give it time to settle a bit before the final stirring. After about 10 minutes I returned to the can to find a pool of paint on the paper - there was a bit of a gap on one side of the paper and the paint had escaped the bottom of the tin - panic stations while I grabbed a couple of large ice-cream container and "saved" most of the paint. I was more than a little surprised and annoyed to find that the plastic stirrer had actually worn through the so called metal tin. I did keep the stirrer moving and at no stage was it held in the one position. Because of this I certainly would not bother with the modern paint tins.