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I recently watched an elderly person
struggling to open a bottle of water.
Offering
to
help, even I with strong hands found the
top
very hard to open. It occured to me that
the twist
tops could be made hexagonal in shape
and
thereby easily released by the application
of
a
simple
spanner.
Spanner, so to speak
http://www.lakeland.../product.aspx/!7598
This looks like a complicated one! [theNakedApiarist, Nov 01 2007]
Plastic Spanner
http://www1.istockp...1810_toy_wrench.jpg
the perfect tool for the job [xenzag, Nov 02 2007]
[link]
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Even without a spanner, I think you'd get a better grip on a polygonal lid than you can on a circular one. |
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There are special 'spanners' for opening bottles and jars with normal tops that would avoid you contaminating your comestibles with spanners last used to do-up your hub nuts. |
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That link specifically states that the product uses magic. The original poster's idea doesn't, so I am bunning it. |
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Would the circular threading be the same? |
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For opening new jars, angle the tip of a knife under the lip of the lid and twist the knife slightly. It breaks the vacuum, making the jar much easier to open. |
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Nutcrackers already work okay for opening most small bottle tops, but have a bun anyhow. [+] |
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Also, if the manufacturers number the sides of your hexagonal bottle tops, and make them with a bump in the centre on the underside, they'd come in handy as six-sided spinners for the diceless. |
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but real men (and me) like spanners |
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tNA is probably worrying about that rat urine thing - rats don't piss on hub nuts just Cola cans. |
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I just like this idea for introducing the verb
"to stuggle". |
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I don't think this idea can claim that one. |
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Top idea. Here's a six-sided bun [+] |
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Thank you [maxwellBuchanan] - I had to
laugh at that one too - corrected ... and
now for the proper definition of: "to
stuggle" - a vain attempt at removing
beard stubble wth a blunt razor. |
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Now, if only I had a magnetic knife rack with magnets strong enough to hold a huge adjustable spanner... |
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