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Yup, cans of all sizes are handy in the shop.
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In your garage/shop for cleaning little parts in solvent? Using for a small bit of paint do you don't have to bring out the whole can?
Empty yogurt containers? Cottage cheese containers? Mayonnaise jars for puttin' up nuts/bolts/nails?
Don't ask me how many in mine.
I don't keep track, would just make me depressed and maybe I'd have to throw some away. Geno; Good afternoon to you sir, I trust the day's weather for you all is what you need and that you're all well. We're getting a nice steady rain here, so instead of looking for an innocent buck to invite home for dinner, I did a repair on a family member's shotgun, did some organizing in the reloading room and am keeping the house warm. Way back in the day I was helping a buddy move and he was throwing out dozens of these. So both of the big windows in my shop which have convenient 4" sills are full of those. Then there's a bunch of the 1 liter plastic measuring cups one gets at the paint store - have no idea how many of them and 1 liter yogurt containers there are. The sad truth Geno is that I did a thorough clean out of my shop just this spring and at that time had the opportunity to cull a few containers, which I did, but there's still more left. That said, when I found out the other day that my faithful Leatherman Wave was a tad rusty, an old stainless steel coffee mug got filled with diesel and it was heavy enough to not tip with the Wave's pliers soaking in it and the handle up and out of the diesel. Tuna cans however, I don't believe are present, but if I didn't have all the other jar lids and containers around, then they'd do fine too. All the best to you folks this weekend my friend. Dwayne
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how many empty tuna cans . . .
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Man, you've got me missing the old style baby food jars now! :-> Screw the lids to the bottom of a shelf. That's how grampa taught me, and I still keep odds and ends of fasteners and what-not like that in one of my shops. Gawd that makes me feel like an old boomer, but I don't care. It's effective, and saves trips to town to buy one stupid wingnut. 'Course the downside is - if I don't make a trip to the hardware store for the wingnut, I can't get a smoked polish dog with kraut at the roach coach that sets up by the store.
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Gallon oil jug on it side, with a square cut out of the top is my parts washer. Enough gas to cover the part.
If its to big, brake clean or carb ckeaner.
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I use the clear bottoms of the sliced meat containers for holding cases in various stages of preparation. Same for parts if I’m working on a gun. I don’t think they would withstand any cleaning chemicals though. I have some different containers for odd parts, nuts, bolts, etc.
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Gallon oil jug on it side, with a square cut out of the top is my parts washer. Enough gas to cover the part.
If its to big, brake clean or carb ckeaner. Put those on a shelf, and you have drawers.
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I just want some inclusion in this thread. I have 4!!! Might have toasted tuna fish sandwiches for dinner now thanks to this thead. Use 2 cans... Full blown whole hog hungry tard mode... Cans will go in the trash. Garage is pretty spartan....
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I have used the old rectangle antifreeze can as bolt bins.
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I have used the old rectangle antifreeze can as bolt bins.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Looks like we are all hoarders. I have more empty containers than I will ever need, still but can’t help myself from keeping something that I may think that some day…
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Looks like we are all hoarders. I have more empty containers than I will ever need, still but can’t help myself from keeping something that I may think that some day…
I's a mark of poverty.
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Man, you've got me missing the old style baby food jars now! :-> Screw the lids to the bottom of a shelf. That's how grampa taught me, and I still keep odds and ends of fasteners and what-not like that in one of my shops. Gawd that makes me feel like an old boomer, but I don't care. It's effective, and saves trips to town to buy one stupid wingnut. 'Course the downside is - if I don't make a trip to the hardware store for the wingnut, I can't get a smoked polish dog with kraut at the roach coach that sets up by the store. You guys remember the fancy ass ones that looked like a rotisserie sitting there, jars of different goodies, just turn the darn thing to find what you needed? Guy had one of them he was ship shape for sure.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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I just want some inclusion in this thread. I have 4!!! Might have toasted tuna fish sandwiches for dinner now thanks to this thead. Use 2 cans... Full blown whole hog hungry tard mode... Cans will go in the trash. Garage is pretty spartan.... Wealthy retired fed worker. Prolly tosses the 16 nails left after a job and just buys a new box when he needs a nail instead of using an empty peanut butter jar for the 16 ones he done paid for already.
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No tuna cans but i have both plastic and metal coffee cans.
Even have some waterless hand towel buckets and a few almond containers from COSCO.
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I prefer the old school metal peanut cans.
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Those tins from the Danish butter cookies come in handy too.
Big ol' popcorn tins like the church kids sell to raise money for camp also.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Man, you've got me missing the old style baby food jars now! :-> Screw the lids to the bottom of a shelf. That's how grampa taught me, and I still keep odds and ends of fasteners and what-not like that in one of my shops. Gawd that makes me feel like an old boomer, but I don't care. It's effective, and saves trips to town to buy one stupid wingnut. 'Course the downside is - if I don't make a trip to the hardware store for the wingnut, I can't get a smoked polish dog with kraut at the roach coach that sets up by the store. You guys remember the fancy ass ones that looked like a rotisserie sitting there, jars of different goodies, just turn the darn thing to find what you needed? Guy had one of them he was ship shape for sure. LOL That brings back memories. Dad had nine kids so there were plenty of baby food bottles in his shop.
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We only had five kids in our household but there were plenty of them jars too.
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Metal cans going back to Grandpas "HOLIDAY PIPE TOBACCO" & Plenty of "TE-AMO CHURCHILL" cigar boxes too.
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