Tim Decker wrote:
Has anyone else been having problems with opening tins? We found it
really hard to open tins with a previous tin opener. So I got an old
fashioned butterfly one and this didn't work very well, so bought
another from Asda (35p) and found this didn't work. Finally went to
John Lewis and paid for an expensive one (£7) and have now found this
doesn't work properly.

This made me think that maybe the manufacture of tinned goods has
changed slightly.

Hi Tim

Not planning on performing 'Pineapple Surprise' or 'Peaches' are you :-)

I had trouble finding ours, most cans seem to be ring pulls nowadays. Ours
is a cheap white plastic jobby marked 'WL Housewares' no idea where it came
from but it seems to work OK.

Lakeland do one appropriately called a 'Magician Auto' which has a good
write up and a lifetime guarantee for £8:99 - worth a try, most of their
stuff 'does what it says on the tin' so to speak.

There's a Lakeland at Bluewater.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk