mess tin
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It's pretty simple, and I apologise if any of this is already obvious to you ...
All you have to do is find a big enough tin, a catering size tin is good.
Open it with an old-style can opener that leaves the rim intact.
Eat the contents, or share them with your family/friends.
Give the tin a wash out.
Punch (e.g. with a nail) or drill a couple of holes on opposite sides of the can about 1 or 2 cm below the rim.
Get a wire coat hanger, and cut it so that you have the long bottom section intact and a about 1 cm of the bend at each end. Then just bend the whole thing to shape so that it forms a handle where the hook-like bits at each end face inwards. Push the hook ends through each of the holes in your can and bend the hooks to form tighter J shape if needed.
That's all you need to do, should take you less than 5 minutes to make once you have your materials.
You can use a pair of pliers to smooth out any ragged edges inside the rim of the can, you can also improvise a lid with a few layers of tinfoil if you like.
All you have to do is find a big enough tin, a catering size tin is good.
Open it with an old-style can opener that leaves the rim intact.
Eat the contents, or share them with your family/friends.
Give the tin a wash out.
Punch (e.g. with a nail) or drill a couple of holes on opposite sides of the can about 1 or 2 cm below the rim.
Get a wire coat hanger, and cut it so that you have the long bottom section intact and a about 1 cm of the bend at each end. Then just bend the whole thing to shape so that it forms a handle where the hook-like bits at each end face inwards. Push the hook ends through each of the holes in your can and bend the hooks to form tighter J shape if needed.
That's all you need to do, should take you less than 5 minutes to make once you have your materials.
You can use a pair of pliers to smooth out any ragged edges inside the rim of the can, you can also improvise a lid with a few layers of tinfoil if you like.
Here is a good linkto a making a coffee can pot. http://dirttime.com/coffeecancookware.html
Be sure to check out all of the articles the 3 guys that run the site are amazing and great people to boot.
Be sure to check out all of the articles the 3 guys that run the site are amazing and great people to boot.
That's a really great link! Really like the A-frame shelter using strips of birch bark.
Cheers for that!
Dr O
Cheers for that!
Dr O
Nice link, it's officially the close season for my primary hobby so I can see a few of these ideas getting tried out over the next three months instead
glad you liked it those three are memebers of a forum that I belong to based in the states and they are a warehouse of knowledge. I suggest reading the with what was in our pockets article.
