Opening tinned tobacco

[Anthony]

I know everyone has their own little rituals opening tobacco tins, especially when it comes to the extremely stubborn ones.

What methods do you use?

I tend to use the lip of the tamp on a pipe tool to break the vaccum.

 

[Doc Manhattan]

I do the same, but with the tip of the dottle spoon. Very stubborn ones, I have a flat-blade jeweller's screwdriver that does the trick.

 

[Ol'Dawg]

For most tins, I use a quarter but for the really tough ones I use a gaming coin from the Crystal Casino in Aruba. It hasn't failed yet though as I get older it doesn't work as well as it used to. :lol!:

Jim

 

[puros_bran]

I give them to Bubba with orders not to open it.. Two blinks and its open

 

[Anthony]

I give them to Bubba with orders not to open it.. Two blinks and its open

HA. I cracked a genuine smile with that one.

Always wanted to hand a tin over to a group of 4 year olds and watch what what happens (or how badly they mutilate it).

 

[Carlos]

I use a paint can opener to break the seal.

 

[Smokey Joe]

I use the dottle spoon or a Kennedy half dollar (works like a charm).

 

[Strongirish]

I usre a large flat sided screwdriver. Coins never work for me. If they would just make the indention a little deeper they would be easy, but for some reason they like to see us struggle.

 

[jlong]

Sawzall.

 

[Pipey McPiperson]

Thus far a Susan B. Anthony has been the skeleton key for me! :santa:

 

[Centurian 803]

I ususally use the dottle spoon on my pipe tool. For especially stubborn tins I have a ruby laser powered by a small nuclear reactor I keep in the basement. Don't worry I've shielded the reactor with all those styrofoam pnuts that they use for packing material. Just call me Mr Green!

 

[Anonymous]

Usually a quarter or nickel does the trick. My 6 year old likes my empties to put 'stuff' in.

 

[Anonymous]

I use a coin unless it's really sealed tight, in which case, I use the tip of my Cold Steel to pry it open. The problem with this is that it usually bends the tin, keeping me from closing it properly.

 

[Anthony]

I use a coin unless it's really sealed tight, in which case, I use the tip of my Cold Steel to pry it open. The problem with this is that it usually bends the tin, keeping me from closing it properly.

My case in point. Sure you can jimmy the thing open, but most of us tend to keep it in the tin unless we feel the need to put it in a mason jar, and there in lies the problem. How to open it without mutilating the stupid tin. I had an old Murrays tin of 965 that I basically said "screw it" and almost took a sawzall to. Mason jarred it and pouched it from day to day.

 

[adauria]

I also use the tamper (round part) on a czech tool or a quarter if it's stubborn.

-Andrew

 

[paddy-boy]

45 acp 230gr. Gold Dot
Works every time