Anyone save pull tabs?

2LaneCruzer · Jul 11, 2015

MoKelly said:
So, you separate the pull tab from the can every time by wiggling the thing until it comes off?

I can see doing this in the "old days" with pull tabs, but today its actual work to get the pull tab off.

But, if its a beer can, the reward is worth the effort.:thumbsup:

MoKelly

Yep. Just wiggle it off; comes as second nature by now. Funny thing, I go to a lot of car shows, some of which are held in public parks. I often see an old "pop top" , the kind that had to be pulled off the can, lying around on the ground.

MossRoad · Jul 13, 2015

We save them in a canning jar by the kitchen sink just to see how many cans of pop we drink every year. Every few years, the church, boy scouts, or some other organization has a recycle day and we toss them in. They're also good for art projects, fishing lures and making your own chainmail undergarments.... you'll have to google that one! :laughing:

dragoneggs · Jul 13, 2015

Remember the old pull tops that could be folded around each other thus linking them to make a Chain? My sister and I collected them from all the pop cans and made a chain curtain to cover a doorway entrance. Thought it was pretty cool. Really a piece of art.

k0ua · Jul 13, 2015

Also the old pop tops off of a frosty root beer branded can were round when you broke off the remainder of the tail. They were exactly the size of a nickle. Unsophisticated cookie and snack machines could not tell the difference. Or so I have been told. I wouldn't really know. No, I don't know anything about things that might have happened 50 years ago.

dragoneggs · Jul 14, 2015

k0ua said:
Also the old pop tops off of a frosty root beer branded can were round when you broke off the remainder of the tail. They were exactly the size of a nickle. Unsophisticated cookie and snack machines could not tell the difference. Or so I have been told. I wouldn't really know. No, I don't know anything about things that might have happened 50 years ago.

Or the knockouts from metal electrical boxes working as quarters for pinball machines, I don't know anything about that either.