bottlecaps

[Tengu]

Its amazing when you notice something you took for granted.

I dont drink much and so do not generate many bottecaps

Sorting throgh stuff with a friend, found a bag and I took them home.

What to do with them? I know they can be used to make a fish descaler but thats all.

They are an interesting collectable but I like things to have a function.

 

[Janne]

You can nail them under your wooden clogs, superb for preventing you slipping on the ice,

 

[Janne]

You could use them making a tambourine.

If you are of the musical and handy kind of person!

A rattle, but not suitable for a child.

 

[Muddypaws]

Are they all different colours? If so, then glue them onto a board in an artistic fashion, and create a piece of contemporary wall art, or, if you have enough, a coffee table top.

When I have a large enough collection I will do something like that, to preserve for posterity a record of some of my wasted drinking years!

 

[Janne]

Wasted?
Enlightened!

 

[Robbi]

thread them onto fishing line 4 inches apart and make a hanging curtain for the door of your caravan.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bottle+top+curtain&FORM=HDRSC2

 

[Janne]

Wine corks might be better for that as the metal caps might scratch her face and glasses!

 

[Samon]

Scale armour .

 

[Dave Budd]

I've seen them used as fishing lures, bird scarers, part of clothing/jewelery and lots in art projects.

A friend of mine saved a bunch up, (forge)welded them together and made it into a knife. It was rubbish, don't bother with that one!

 

[Tengu]

Well, they would not...the metal is soft. I think that would be a given.

They are easy to aqquire. Just go in the pub at the end of the evening. (Not like I did, at the start...but I do have 8 more now)

I wouldnt scratch myself on the curtain...put my hand through first. Butchers have those chain curtains, do they not?

 

[saxonaxe]

Turn them upside down, then nail them closely spaced onto a piece of 12mm ply. Makes a good boot scraper for muddy shoes and wellies.

 

[oldtimer]

Nail loosely to an old wooden broomstick and you have a lagerphone.

 

[Clayze]

It's only a matter of time....a skiffle revival!

 

[oldtimer]

A length of cord tied to the lagerphone and an upturned tea chest and I can reawaken skills that have lain dormant for sixty years! Rock island line anyone?

 

[Clayze]

Yes please.....swiftly followed by Cumberland Gap and My Old Man's a Dustman I should hope

 

[oldtimer]

Tengu won't know why we've hijacked her thread although the era we are talking about may be approaching that of a researcher into pre-historic culture.

 

[Clayze]

Quite so, apologies Tengu. Leaving nostalgia on the back burner and setting aside musical instruments I'm afraid I'm stumped. We find enough of the dammed things metal detecting on Brighton Beach.

 

[ferretracer]

You could a table or some beer mats or some of interesting pattern with them, then cover with clear epoxy resin, quite a popular thing to do. Im currently saving a few up to do something simialr. Some people have done vairous floors with them or pennys using the same process. eg https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sou...aw2LEuNFMC5djzVrpJMmk-hW&ust=1547716355711186

 

[C_Claycomb]

Turn them upside down, then nail them closely spaced onto a piece of 12mm ply. Makes a good boot scraper for muddy shoes and wellies.

Anyone remember Flanders and Swann, Design for Living?

http://members.optusnet.com.au/penn...sSwann/DropOfaHat/At the Drop of a Hat05.html

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Flanders: Have you a home that cries out to your every visitor,
"Here lives someone who is exciting to know"?

No?

Well, why not... collect those little metal bottle-tops, and nail them upside-down to the floor? This will give the sensation... of walking... on little metal bottle-tops turned upside-down. ​

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