Newbie Question re: Tins

[ulsterpaddy]

took me a couple twists, grunts, sore finger nails before i grabbed the butter knife and popped it open. i felt like an idiot too.

 

[lordnoble]

My problem with my first tin (Old Dublin if you must know. Yuck!), wasn't the concept of opening, it was the theory in practice that I had a hard time grasping. You wedge a coin (I first tried a nickel which was too thick, then a quarter) in this area between the lid and the tin and give it a twist and the lid magically comes off. Yeah right, there's no f%&*^ing leverage on the damn coin to twist anything. And finding a screwdriver, let alone a flat-head screwdriver in my house is an exercise in futility. I swear, I have thieving gnomes or elves that steal my screwdrivers. And not just the full-on-with-handles-and-all drivers either. The driver bits for my electric drill are missing too! For the love of all that's holy, if I find that they've been "borrowed" by some elf, I'm burning down Lothlorien, Rivendell, the Keebler tree AND the North Pole as payback.
Ahem... Sorry. Yes. Tins are hard to open. :crazy:
:laughat: -Jason

 

[bytor]

Every once in a while I screw the lid back on too tight and then go through the same process of grunting and twisting, feeling my first hernia starting to form, before I finally give up and grab my czech tool. Even then, they can still be a bit infuriating.
Nothing better than bringing your blood pressure to a boil before sitting down for a bowl!

 

[puffintuff]

And I thought I was the only one who had trouble getting the damn tin open.

 

[yoru]

My first tin (Peterson tins dun have the instruction) was about an hour of trying to unscrew the damned thing, followed by throwing it when I got pissed, followed by putting it in a lidded pot on a rack above a pot of boiling water (got the damned lid off anyway. . .stupid idea though) -- then my step-father (of sorts) tossed me a knife and called me an idiot. . ..
What gets me is that the damned things HAVE THREADS! You twist them on! Freaking vaccum seals man. . ... Never have been able to open one without a knife, even putting the lids back on myself.

 

[python]

Maybe this will be my next instructional video; "How to Open a Tobacco Tin" :lol:

 

[flipflopsandshades]

Flat-head screwdriver. I consider it part of my "Pipe-Necessities" now. It is permanently placed next to my tins for when I want to open one up. :?