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Thread: Paint can key mystery
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24th June 2013, 06:33 PM #1
Paint can key mystery
Alright. I've had it. The torment has been far too great for far too long...
What the heck is the looped end of a paint can key for!?!?!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...an_key_001.jpg)
Yeh, sure...a bottle opener...but what are painters using that comes in capped bottles (besides the obvious home brews that defy the Geneva Convention)?
Put me out of my miseryEvery time you make a typo, the errorists win.
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24th June 2013, 06:47 PM #2
Easy to hang up so you can easily find it to open a bottle
um.... put on a key ring
Real reason is to provide a decent grip and leverage by hand when in use. Try and use one without and you will soon find outits a PITA
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Cheers
Ray
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24th June 2013, 06:57 PM #3
I figured leverage was probably the key (*boom-tish*) to the loop itself, but it seems like unnecessary processing to pinch out the tabs inside it just so you can sink a sly one (or twenty) on the job.
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24th June 2013, 07:53 PM #4
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24th June 2013, 09:55 PM #5
May be the home brew has to be opened to use as paint stripper.
Hugh
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5th July 2013, 06:10 PM #6
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FWIW if you have pushbikes in the house and do the tyres, you prob have a lever with a cupped end. Just as good.
Cheers, Ern
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5th July 2013, 07:22 PM #7
My paint can opener (one of them, at least) lives in the kitchen drawer for both opening milo lids as well as bottle opening functions.
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5th July 2013, 07:27 PM #8
I was using one the other day after reading this post. I hadn't previously noticed the bottle opener on the end but I was thinking it would have been handy if they didn't fully close the loop so you could store the opener on the paint tin handle.
I tend to open the tin and then loose the opener before I need to use it again on the same tin.Now proudly sponsored by Binford Tools. Be sure to check out the Binford 6100 - available now at any good tool retailer.
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5th July 2013, 07:45 PM #9
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5th July 2013, 11:11 PM #10
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6th July 2013, 09:02 AM #11
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6th July 2013, 10:12 AM #12
There is only one way you could get me interested in painting.... that is it.
Cliff.
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6th July 2013, 12:03 PM #13
Here is my take on the subject;
The scoopy bit that does the actual "Opening" of the can is shaped to put the end of the scoop *right under the corner of the lip pressed into the lid. Repeated use of a screwdriver instead of the opener, will make resealing the lid very hard due to bending out shape of the lid.
*the round loop at the other end is there to make it easier to find in the confusion mess that goes with a painting job
*painters are known for their large appetites for the amber stuff so why not make your paint tin lid opener have a "duel" function
I had never figured that you could hang it on the wire handle of the can. I like that idea.
I have a few kicking around that you can never locate when you want to use it, so I put a piece of string on it to leave a trail to locate the suckerJust do it!
Kind regards Rod
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10th July 2013, 07:27 PM #14
Many years ago, before they invented those new fangled, plastic, screw top bottles, paint additives came in a small glass bottle that needed a bottle opener.
OK, I totally made that up but it's might be true.
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10th July 2013, 07:34 PM #15
Hah. While NCA's theory is entirely plausible, I'm going to stick with the "painters are giant lushes" one. It's much more likely
Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.