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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on June 15, 2017, 08:00:36 AM
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Last Saturday while we were in Chicago for the S-I-L's birthday party, the wives went to a dance recital ... We didn't! We stayed back to get ready for the party, and of course you need to be able to open beer bottles at a proper party 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1NYqWAeY_A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1NYqWAeY_A)
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Better use would have been too give it too this bottle opener for your party.https://youtu.be/Hao-HgIbP1s (https://youtu.be/Hao-HgIbP1s)
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Well, that's one way to do it. If you ever need a bottle opener and don't have one, give me the $100 bill and I'll buy you 1/2 dozen openers.
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TAB - That is great for twist tops, but .... Oh, I've got nothing to go against letting her fight with a regular cap for a while.
jumbofrank - But, I still have the hundred, and I drank the beer 8) The knife and tongs were the quickest way to open bottles through the night. I can pop them quicker with either than you can get an opener over the cap. Still trying to master doing it with the plastic cap on a water bottle. Watched one guy do it on several bottles, but none of us could master that one.
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Gotta use the second knuckle as a fulcrum. I can open a beer with just about anything. Too many years behind the bar...
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No NO NO.
A bottle opener should be part of your EDC. No need for time consuming "tricks".
You guys are so... so... just not hip.
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A bottle opener IS part of me EDC, it's called whatever is in my pocket...(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170615/c9b47458d1bd55c805a98411e3096324.jpg)
The nicked up end o my Kershaw, fer example!
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Hook one of the points of the bottle cap on the edge of a table or other sturdy horizontal surface with the bottom of the bottle at the low point and then rap sharply with side of your fist of the top of the cap
This guy talks enough to allow you to open a case of beer...but he finally gets around to it..
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just a thought, you either are not married or stole that hundy from your wifes purse. all married men know hundred dollar bills are fake. her money is her money, my money is her money.
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Between the C note or the boobs, the C note is probably far less expensive.
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Gotta use the second knuckle as a fulcrum. I can open a beer with just about anything. Too many years behind the bar...
The problem with the water bottle is the soft plastic giving way.
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A bottle opener IS part of me EDC, it's called whatever is in my pocket...(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170615/c9b47458d1bd55c805a98411e3096324.jpg)
The nicked up end o my Kershaw, fer example!
I use up the spine of my knife with the blade closed.
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Fair warning about using your wedding ring: If the ring bends while opening the bottle it takes a ring cutter to get it off.
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Between the C note or the boobs, the C note is probably far less expensive.
always is...has been and will be.
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just a thought, you either are not married or stole that hundy from your wifes purse. all married men know hundred dollar bills are fake. her money is her money, my money is her money.
Driving cash! It had been over six weeks since I was last in Chicago, so I had just over $1,000 in receipts.
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my wife does not know( and doesn';t want) what I have or make. I bet she would be pissed if she did know. very early on in the marriage she asked if we could file jointly. "no" then we spent the next 2 hours going over just that month of expenses for my construction company. she had no idea. Now its several times over worse ;D
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I used to have 3 Buck Whittaker knives with matching blue aluminum handles but lost one.
The big one was a Revolution with a revolving blade but I lost it. When the blade is closed the other end has a bottle opener and a clip so you can clip it to your belt loop like a carabiner. I found some pictures of it open, closed, and half-way open on amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002VIKDG/ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_AMjevb1C5ZJXP
The mid-size one is a Short Approach which I carry with a caribiner on my belt loop or in my pocket depending on my mood. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Buck-B752BLX-B-Small-Blue-Approach-Pocket-Knife-NIB-B-752-BLX-NOS-/142339358284?hash=item2124163e4c:g:tLwAAOSw03lY7sWW
The baby of the family is the Metro which isn't much more than a bottle opener with a 1.125" blade. At 1.5 ounces and less than 2.5" overall length it disappears in a pocket. https://www.amazon.com/Buck-Knives-Pocket-Bottle-Opener/dp/B000EI0W74?th=1
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I use up the spine of my knife with the blade closed.
Used the Kershaw today at lunch to open a Mexican bottled Sprite!
Tough cap....
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I just opened a Henry's hard soda with a bottle opener that sticks on the fridge door. It's a twist off cap but I don't want to strain my delicate little hands. ;D
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I just opened a Henry's hard soda with a bottle opener that sticks on the fridge door. It's a twist off cap but I don't want to strain my delicate little hands. ;D
Weenie!
It's about the journey, not the destination
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Years back, after washing damn near every glass we had in the bar on a busy night, my hands looked like prunes, a guy asked me to grab him a brew! I reached into the cooler, grabbed the Bud, tried to twist off the cap and sliced through the web of my hand when the cap decided it didn't want to twist...
Bloody mess...
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TBH twist off bottle caps do sometimes make a red mark on the web of my hand and hurt just a little but the pain stops almost instantly. Other times it doesn't hurt at all. But if I put my T-shirt over it I get a better grip and it never hurts. I worry about putting a hole in my shirt so I use a bottle opener at home. The wet bottles from the cooler when your hand is wet too are the slippery ones where the shirt really helps.
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The easiest way I have found to open a beer without an opener or a twist off is a twofold procedure:
1. "Honey, bring me a beer."
2. "Thanks."
Simple, and it works almost every time.
Crusader Rabbit
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An Armatoolo?
;)
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That should work great for twist off caps but what if you have to pry a cap off? Could you use the edges to do it?
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Here is the opener I find useful.
Twist off, pry off and even a slot to assist with pull tabs..useful if you are doing a lot of them
https://www.amazon.com/RackHound-RH009-Beverage-Opener-Keychain/dp/B00NC6ZQ6W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497812052&sr=8-1&keywords=bev+key
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That should work great for twist off caps but what if you have to pry a cap off? Could you use the edges to do it?
The tail is a bottle opener...
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The tail is a bottle opener...
I was wondering about that. It has an odd shape to it and thought it must work as a bottle opener but wasn't sure how.
ETA: Looking at it again I see the hook of the bottle opener. I didn't even notice it before.
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I forgot that the multi-tool in my pocket has a bottle opener as well so I don't need to carry one of my bottle opener knives. I was thinking about dropping the Metro in my pocket when I go camping for the 4th of July but I don't need it.