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Anthony
Number of posts: 202
Age: 26
Location: Denver Colorado
Tobacco: Penzance, Nightcap,
Pipe: Peterson's Captain Pete XL short Bulldog
Registration date: 2009-11-02
 | | Subject: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:39 am | |
| 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. |
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Doc Manhattan
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 3486
Age: 33
Location: Land of Steady Habits
Tobacco: GH Flakes
Pipe: Gregor Lobnik
Registration date: 2008-05-26
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:43 am | |
| 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.
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I've finally stopped getting dumber.
-Paul Erdös, epitaph for himself
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Ol'Dawg
Number of posts: 2032
Age: 66
Location: Northeast Georgia
Registration date: 2008-01-03
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:50 am | |
| 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.  Jim |
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puros_bran
Nightrider
Number of posts: 7480
Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:00 am | |
| I give them to Bubba with orders not to open it.. Two blinks and its open 
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"Pacem en Puffing!"
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Anthony
Number of posts: 202
Age: 26
Location: Denver Colorado
Tobacco: Penzance, Nightcap,
Pipe: Peterson's Captain Pete XL short Bulldog
Registration date: 2009-11-02
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:12 am | |
| | puros_bran wrote: | | 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). |
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Carlos
Number of posts: 4516
Age: 54
Location: Chestnut, IL
Tobacco: GLP Renaissance
Pipe: Brian Ruthenberg Sandblasts
Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:07 pm | |
| I use a paint can opener to break the seal. _________________  Current pen & ink. Pelikan 140, green striated, medium nib Noodler's - Van Gogh Starry Night Blue |
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Smokey Joe
Number of posts: 232
Age: 48
Location: Georgia Boonies
Registration date: 2009-10-29
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:20 pm | |
| I use the dottle spoon or a Kennedy half dollar (works like a charm).  |
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Strongirish
Number of posts: 159
Age: 57
Location: Lake Conroe, Texas
Tobacco: Escudo, Union Square, this week!
Pipe: Jan P and Son, Willmers, Caminetto's, Peterson's and old estates.
Registration date: 2009-04-03
| | Subject: opening tins Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:53 pm | |
| 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. |
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jlong
Number of posts: 657
Age: 54
Location: Northeast Wisconsin
Tobacco: Old ironsides, Bailey's Balkan Blend, C&D Star of the East
Pipe: Nording bent apple
Registration date: 2009-07-07
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:04 pm | |
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Pipey McPiperson
Number of posts: 132
Age: 30
Location: Indiana
Tobacco: 1792 Flake, Reiner LGF, FVF
Pipe: Peterson System, Radice silk cut
Registration date: 2009-10-30
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:26 pm | |
| Thus far a Susan B. Anthony has been the skeleton key for me!  |
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Centurian 803
Long Arm O' The Law
Number of posts: 1541
Age: 61
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Tobacco: Gatlin Burley, Exhausted Rooster, EMP etc, etc....
Pipe: GBD Canadian-Sasquatch Canadian
Registration date: 2008-09-10
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:41 am | |
| 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!  |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:27 am | |
| Usually a quarter or nickel does the trick. My 6 year old likes my empties to put 'stuff' in. |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:32 am | |
| 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. |
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Anthony
Number of posts: 202
Age: 26
Location: Denver Colorado
Tobacco: Penzance, Nightcap,
Pipe: Peterson's Captain Pete XL short Bulldog
Registration date: 2009-11-02
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:14 am | |
| | Texas Outlaw wrote: | | 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. |
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adauria
Number of posts: 435
Location: Wake Forest, NC
Registration date: 2008-02-28
| | Subject: Re: Opening tinned tobacco Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:35 am | |
| I also use the tamper (round part) on a czech tool or a quarter if it's stubborn.
-Andrew |
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