A Larger Tin

The Warrior

The Warrior

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Altoids sized tins do come in handy, and have their purpose, but I find one a bit bigger to work better, for me at least.

A mini headphone amp came in this tin:

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Next to a regular sized tin:

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A nice little kit, with room to spare. Pocket bellows, ESEE fire steel, jute twine, flint, fatwood, and some char cloth:

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I also found this Coke tin at work the other day. The lid fits very tight. Thinking I'm going to fill it with tinder:

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Much thicker than a regular tin:

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Should hold quite a bit:

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Thanks for looking.
 
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I really like the pipe tobacco tins, they lock up tight and have plenty of room!

Otherwise I just put together a small kit using a Sucrets cough drop tin. Is a bit shorter, but taller and made of thicker stuff.

Other than that for smaller Camel Snus tins are cool for like a micro kit, like mini fire kit.


 
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Cool tins. I do sorta kinda wish mine were hinged. No biggie really I guess. I need to get a ranger band on mine.
 
I went with a steak and shake gift card tin. It's the same depth as an altoids tin, but long enough to just barely accept a couple of rolled up 1 liter whirpak bags.

I used to have an SAS tin / Tobacco tin (which is thicker). The downside is that it's size limits it to cargo pockets or belt pouches... and it's spacious enough that you can stuff so much in it that it's not comfortable flopping against your leg in a cargo pocket. By switching to two thinner tins, I can stick one in each back pocket (or still use cargo pockets) and it's more comfortable. The first one carries my water/fire/tools/navigation/signalling etc, the second carries nice to have items like bug repellent, booboo kit, etc. I've made some changes since I took the pictures and I'm still going to tweak it a little so I haven't uploaded the latest ones yet, but will keep posted when I do.

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Warrior, I do believe I have that very same tin, from the very same source (Fiio by chance?).

I'm currently using it to store some fatwood and a small firesteel around in my work bag. I wish I could find more like it, because it is a much more usable size for a "bag" type of container. The altoids tins work well for belts/pockets though.
 
I dug at the warehouse and found couple of these film canisters from student times. I might turn the other one to firemaking kit eventually, but now these are my tinderboxes. Slightly larger than those also handy sweets cans.

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Anyone spray varnish their tins? I find tins rust easily, even if they have never been outside I'll find small rust sport now and then.
 
ocnLogan said:
Warrior, I do believe I have that very same tin, from the very same source (Fiio by chance?).

I'm currently using it to store some fatwood and a small firesteel around in my work bag. I wish I could find more like it, because it is a much more usable size for a "bag" type of container. The altoids tins work well for belts/pockets though.
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Yes, it was Fii0! An E11 to be exact. Didn't really think anyone would know what I was talking about if I said fii0, haha. I have a few Fii0 amps.

A.L. said:
I dug at the warehouse and found couple of these film canisters from student times. I might turn the other one to firemaking kit eventually, but now these are my tinderboxes. Slightly larger than those also handy sweets cans.

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Nice man.

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Anyone spray varnish their tins? I find tins rust easily, even if they have never been outside I'll find small rust sport now and then.
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I never have sprayed any of mine, and thus far, haven't had a rust problem, knock on wood. I did spray paint one for shits and giggles once, to match my BK2 scales:

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I thought I remembered a thread for tin containers ...

Gift Card containers sourced at my local Canadian Tire Store recently are these tins I found interesting.



Camo 5 X 3 X .5

Ammo 3.75 x 2.5 x 1.5


I already protect my Coleman lantern mantles in this gift card container acquired in past.



Red 4 X 2.5 X .75
 
Try 100g pipe tobacco tins like MacBaren HH Old Dark Fired. (Excellent tobacco, by the way.)
 
Math set tins I'm sure you all remember from your school days are a good size. Already has a pencil sharpener in it, too.
 
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