Who knows how to use a tin opener?

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Who knows how to use a tin opener?

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Hello
Yes this is completely random, but i thought i would sahre an educational video from my wife Catherine. She runs WCP RC Models.
Anyway we were having a laugh a while back and had this great idea to share an informative video of how to use a tin opener to our friends as we were watching a tv program and laughed our heads off when someone on the TV was asked 'do you know how this thing works!'

Anyway i am pretty sure Catherine doesn't know i posted the said video on Youtube hahahaha, so i thought i would share it here with you.

If anyone has any ideas on other things for Catherine to do informative educational videos on, then please let me know.

I am on the look out for a very old fashioned manual opener aswell as i think i will even enjoy watching Catherine using that haha :haha:

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I got one....... This is what’s called “ A Jack”
It’s used to raise a vehicle called a car, to assist n a process called “ changing a flat tyre”
Most millennial numptards call a local vehicle break down service or ask with a blank look “ isn’t there an app for that”

I assume that poor Mrs WCP has gone past “ how to get male juveniles of all ages to put dirty clothes INTO the washing basket, not on the floor next to it ”??!!
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Initially I got round the problems with "Jacks" by being the proud owner of a Citroen CX Familiale. When the inevitable rust which was inherent in just about every car in Britain in the latter part of the 20th century ate the CX I went to more conventionally suspended vehicles and bought a little 4 wheeled trolly jack with removable handle paired up with a sawn off length of builders plank it is perfect and it takes up hardly any space and every October when I swap the tyres for winter tyres it takes no time at all.
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Can/tin openers ??? I have not needed one for years not since ring pulls were introduced :haha:
I think the only cans needing an opener are the Frey Bentos Steak and Kidney pies :thumbdown:
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In the US there are still a majority of our "tins" (we yanks call them cans), still need a can opener although most use an electric one. I do still have a hand crank can opener in the drawer as a spare. I would hate to see a younger person try to use the old US GI issued P38 can opener that was issued to troops. :D Now that would be a funny sight.
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tankme wrote:In the US there are still a majority of our "tins" (we yanks call them cans), still need a can opener although most use an electric one. I do still have a hand crank can opener in the drawer as a spare. I would hate to see a younger person try to use the old US GI issued P38 can opener that was issued to troops. :D Now that would be a funny sight.
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In the days of composite ration packs (Compo) there was a tiny little brown hinged piece of metal included in each box,
It was the can/tin opener and it was a very useful bit of kit that was to be found in every soldiers pocket.
I never found a can/tin it could not open It of course included a bottle opener,
I doubt it took up as much as 40mm X 5mm when open :thumbup:
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" I would hate to see a younger person try to use the old US GI issued P38 can opener that was issued to troops. Now that would be a funny sight." I keep two of them. At the university some years ago, three or four frustrated colleague Professors who couldn't find a can opener stood pouting and bemoaning the unopened five-pound coffee can. I walked in, asked what was the matter, and on hearing their pleas, whipped out my trusty P38. They laughed until I handily opened the 5 pound can with not so very much effort. Ah a moment of triumph. :D Of course, I am not "a younger person," nor was I even back then. :problem:
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And that's the great part about the P38 - it's small enough to put on a keychain and carry it everywhere.
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tankme wrote:And that's the great part about the P38 - it's small enough to put on a keychain and carry it everywhere.
Caveat Emptor !!!
Just make sure you get the original because there are copies of the British Military and the US Army openers on sale (Amazon, E-Bay) but the metal used in their construction is so soft as to make them useless.
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I acquired my US military can opener when confined to the accommodation blocks due to a very severe weather phase on one of my visits to Thule AFB (long story...) and we had to break out the emergency rations in the hut. I have it, somewhere, to this day...
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