On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:46:56 -0400, aemeijers wrote:

On 7/26/2011 5:58 PM, John Gilmer wrote:


They make dandy plinking targets for your .22, or even a good air rifle.
Good square hit, and instant gratification.

Oh yeah!

I've done that.

Once, just for the heck of it, I took a pick ax to the can. It sprayed
over everything including a slightly worn white shirt. Being on the
cheap side, I continued to wear the shirt as if nothing happened. Only
one person ever asked my how my shirt got that yellow, THICK stain. I
was quite honest.


Once, in the apartment I used to live in, I had to store my spray cans
in milk crates on the shelf above the washer and drier. One night,
peacefully wasting time on the computer like I am now, I here a loud
noise in the kitchen. A spray can of some sort of foaming automotive
cleanser had picked then and there to rot through with a catastrophic
failure, and sprayed stinky foam all over the other cans and dripped
down through the milk crate and wire shelf all over the W/D setup. Took
me hours to clean up the mess. Only time in 40-some years of buying
spray cans that has ever happened to me- they usually just quietly (but
neatly) lose their pressure and die on me.

I keep such things in a solid-bottomed container. I've rarely had that
problem, rather something else leaking and ruining cartons. I just find it
easier to store things in solid trays. If I have to clean out the cabinet, it
goes much faster, too.