(Not trying to heist a thread, but)........ I am a bit partial to peanut ****er, and the smaller sizes are doggone close to perfect for the "lids-screwed-to-board" bolt bin idea. Clear plastic, doesn't rust......what more can I say? Roger
Funny, I was just searching my garage just this morning for a coffee can. I finally found a 10 year old one. The can I've kept my toilet plunger in finally rusted out and I don't have any POR-15. I've gone coffee snob and only buy my beans in little paper bags, the bags get all soggy when you put the plunger in 'em.
a while back i worked for a as a video estimator.. taking videos of places that would be torn down where someone had to duplicate the original site ... while videoing a car dealership scheduled for demolition th next day i found the entire parts storage area was almost intact with the small drawers for the small parts thousands of drawers 6x4x12 i filled the vehicle i drove and would have removed more but time was against me the place was crushed to dust by 6am the next morning if only the people i called to help get the racks and other bigger shelves would have got off thier ***ses we'ed all be set up like pros
Metal coffee cans aren't gone, you just turned into a fancypants I buy that exact same coffee, without the individual packets, and it comes in the metal can you miss.
you gotta love the old timers who kept thier hardware in coffee cans out in the garage. my brother bought an old coffee can full of nails for 50 cents at a garage sale and sold the can for 50 bucks on ebay. not sure what he did with the nails.
when i was little i would rummage the old coffee can on the shelf to put together what ever contraption i had cooking that week. it was allways a pain in the *** to get them all back after you dumped it out on the floor. i know i got in trouble many of times for leaving the mess on the garage floor.
I have a couple of these cans on display in my kitchen: http://www.chockfullonuts.com/coffee/originals.asp They look cool--old--retro--whatever, the coffee tastes good, and you can't beat the name In fact the ones I have are from several years ago, and look more retro than the ones on this website. I remember my Grandpa having a couple of these full of bolts and old TV parts in his garage/store. The rest of my metal coffee cans are piling up for "future use". I think the old style cans are being phased out slowly in favor of the plastic and filter-pak varieties. Eventually, it will be hard to find a old-style metal can. They are going the way of the old cardboard/metal top oil cans you had to puncture with a bottle opener (remember those?)! In the garage, I use them to keep bolts together for certain projects, to store parts, or to catch leaking liquids when dis-***embling stuff. They always come in handy.
There is one more nice thing about the Plastic Beanut ****er jars. They bounce. My dad use to use gl*** jars with the lid screwed to the floor joist. ( work shop inthe ba*****t) those gl*** jars did not bounce more than once.
Hey buddy, I was married to my wife for 14 years before she found out I even knew how to make coffee. I'm startin to like these new cans and I can make her coffee now with these prepacks. You know thats the least I can do for her before she goes to work and I go back to bed.
go to your local restaurant, ask if you can have some empty no.10 cans. there are bigger than coffee cans and work well for lots of things around the garage.
turdytoo, I still use coffee cans that my wife would bring home from work. Find someone to do the same for you, the work places are big coffee drinkers. I also, like peanut ****er heavy plastic jars, they hold a lot and you can see through them. The only problem now days about the plastic stuff is the labels are hard to clean off, the glue is very sticky stuff. Cruiser
-Farm auctions are a great place to find coffee cans full of stuff. They go for almost nothing...you never know what you're gonna' find in them... and if they're full of junk, at least you've got a useable old can.
Use cooking oil as a solvent... the glue they have to use is vegetable based because it's used near food, label glue comes off easy. Also, if you cut a 2L soda/pop bottle in half, the bottom can be used for hardware, the top is a disposable funnel. One more thing, Milkbone dog bisquits come in big, rectangular translucent plastic container with a flap lid and a handle, I've been filling mine with vinegar and de-rusting all the pliers and screwdrivers that got rusty in the bed of my pick-up.
If you need coffee cans check with your local fire station. Trust me on this, I'm a professional firefighter and we empty a lot of them. My garage is crawling with cans of who knows what.
I like the little rectangular baby wipes boxes. Just the right size for nuts and bolts and stuff, stackable and come with their own flip top lid. The wipes inside are handy for getting your hands clean enough to drive home too. I like the plastic cause it don't rust but a coffee can a quart of gas and a parts brush is really handy in a pinch. I wouldn't do that with plastic. My dad's favorite junk box, (for little stuff) was an old cigar box. I used to keep my Matchbox and HotWheels in 'em too.
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