The worthless bottle opener

i don't drink beer, but the little glass bottles of coke require the bottle opener, so i put it to use.
 
znapschatz said:
Another; athough the Leatherman combo opener is only a "better than nothing" bottle opener, it makes an excellent scraper to get mud out of boot treads. A good point here is that just about everything on a multi-tool is multi- purpose.
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Your right. It cleans the mud out of sole treads well. Now I have three uses for it.

Spark thrower
Fingernail cleaner
Tread cleaner.
 
How the hell do you use the can opener? I have a Leatherman Blast. I can easily see how you can get a radial cut into the can, one pointing from the centre to the edge, but is that just how you start? It just seems weird to me.

Cheers all, Acolyte.
 
Acolyte2 said:
How the hell do you use the can opener? I have a Leatherman Blast. I can easily see how you can get a radial cut into the can, one pointing from the centre to the edge, but is that just how you start? It just seems weird to me.

Cheers all, Acolyte.
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The printed instructions will do a far better job than I will, but here goes. A picture really is worth a thousand words but I don't have a digital camera.

1) You hook the can opener under the outside lip of the can you want opened.
2) The blade of the can opener lies alongside the inside rim of the can. The handles are lined up on a parallel tangent to the can, not sticking out perpendicular.
3) Lever the blade down into the top of the can, using the hook/rim as the fulcrum.
4) Depending on can opener design and personal preference you next either advance or draw back the can opener the length of the cutting surface and repeat. (Regardless of design, I always use mine the same way, drawing the can opener back towards me.)
5) Place, lever in, lift, place. Repeat around the entire perimeter of the can.
 
Here's a video on how to use the SAK can opener. The guy who made it, cutlerylover, has tons of knife videos on his account. He's a little long-winded, though. You should skip to 2:50 in the video unless you want to hear him talk about the fruit in the can he's about to open.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6__ZwNN94wo
 
poonchasta said:
Here's a video on how to use the SAK can opener. The guy who made it, cutlerylover, has tons of knife videos on his account. He's a little long-winded, though. You should skip to 2:50 in the video unless you want to hear him talk about the fruit in the can he's about to open.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6__ZwNN94wo
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Not a good instructional. To use a SAK can opener, you push forward with rocking action along the rim after first piercing the can. Try it and you will immediately understand why. Leatherman works in the opposite direction, drawing backward. Both openers do a good job and about as fast.
 
I rarely use the bottle opener to open bottles. I do use it as a scrapper, to remove rocks from the treads of shoes, and a mini-prybar, screwdriver
 
As I've gotten older ---the less I can stomach cheap beer----yes the bottle opener has a use.

Miller and most Busch products are more a kin to urine than anything else.


There is another alternate use for the Vic bottle opener---to use as a wrench for collapsable stocks on AR-15's.
 
Not much of a multi-tool, but a great bottle opener:
 

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If you want the perfect MT bottle opener, then go for the LM Skeletool series.
That baby is guaranteed to work.
If you can't open a bottle with a Skeletool,,,,,then I suggest you drink from a can. :rolleyes:
 
Moreso with my SAK's, but I have used my bottle opener on several occasions for bottle opening, as a screwdriver (I've noticed they are dual function on all my multis and SAK's), and once for convincing an AR takedown pin.
 
Ha ha! It's been a while since I looked at this subforum, so I hadn't seen this thread. The first thing that popped into my head when I saw the title to the thread was that you need to drink a better beer. Some of the Belgium stouts have such thick caps that you can't improvise.

Looks like a good many people here have outgrown the cheap horse urine bottlers. (I once toured a Bud plant, they didn't let me see the peeing horses.) Cheers!!
 
I use the bottle opener on my Farmer all the time, but to tell you the truth, i've actually been using an old church key alot in the past year. I've used it 4 times in the last 2 days at least. I even have one from England with a fold-out corkscrew.

And i'm glad i've heard mention of Guinness in this thread. :thumbup::D
 
I use it a lot, more than I should probably. On my vic climber the bottle opener is on one end and the blade on the other. Perfect for Corona and lime:-)
 
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