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Title: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 11, 2016, 12:08:37 PM
Some of you with older SAKs that have a back layer Phillips may have noticed a slot in it. I've got two: a Super Tinker (black scales) and a Deluxe Tinker (red scales). I periodically look for a decent condition Tinker and Small Tinker with the bifurcated Phillips, to round out the Tinker family.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Super%20Tinker%20Can%20Key.jpg)


(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Deluxe%20Tinker%20Can%20Key.jpg)

It's called a Can Key. At one time all manner of canned goods, and a few other things, including some military supplies, could be opened by a can opener, but you didn't need one. It came with a Can Key spot welded to the can. The key had a slot into which you would put a metal tab located somewhere on the side of the can. Then you would start winding the key. The side of the can was lightly scored so a strip of metal from the can would be wound around the key into the key thereby opening it. It was presumed if you used the Can Key that you were going to use or do something with the can's entire contents versus leaving it in the can as putting the end that had just been removed was nearly always impossible.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Corned%20Beef%20Can.jpg)


(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/SPAMCAN.jpg)

Sometimes the spot weld failed, or someone would twiddle with it until it broke off, and it wasn't present when you wanted to open the can (sans can opener). Victorinox saw fit to put a slot into the Phillips that could be used as a Can Key, in the event you wanted to use it in lieu of the can opener. The advantage of the Can Key and strip of metal was a smooth side. The can's contents could slide out without having to go around a rim left behind on top of the can when a traditional can opener is used.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Meat%20Can%20and%20SAK%20Can%20Key.jpg)

The strip of metal had a sharp edge and you were supposed to throw it away wound around the key that came with the can. Obviously one would not throw the SAK away with the curled up metal strip; it would be carefully pulled off the Phillips and disposed of. Invariably, some people would cut themselves on it (just as they do can lids today). Children were at higher risk, just as they are now with opened cans and can lids from using a current can opener. The can itself, top and bottom, also had a sharp edge. The days of Can Keys are gone now. So what is there to do with a SAK Can Key now? Earlier this year I wanted to curl some ribbon to tie up a gift to some friends . . .

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Deluxe%20Tinker%20Can%20Key%20Ribbon%2001.jpg)

I happened to be wearing the Deluxe Tinker at the time and its Can Key came to mind with the thought I might perform an experiment to see if the ribbon was thin enough to fit into the slot . . .

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Deluxe%20Tinker%20Can%20Key%20Ribbon%2002.jpg)

It fit, and by putting my finger on it to fold it over the slot edge, I pulled it through rapidly several times until I got the amount of desired curl.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Deluxe%20Tinker%20Can%20Key%20Ribbon%2003.jpg)

This tool is of thought of as an anachronism, made obsolete by canning industry abandonment of the Can Key. It's still there, languishing on older knives. Surely, there must be practical uses for this Can Key slot in the older back layer Phillps drivers.

Show us your Can Keys, and what you can do with them (other than aiding in narrowing a SAK's mfr. date  ;) )


John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: gene stoner on October 11, 2016, 04:06:14 PM
My old Craftsman vs. a canned ham.
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: AimlessWanderer on October 11, 2016, 04:31:02 PM
I have only ever used mine for accessing canned meats. I like the ribbon curling trick though
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Thunderpants on October 11, 2016, 07:57:52 PM
You could warm them up and use them as emergency hair curlers...

It would be interesting to see how they put that slot in there. Presumably that was the final step of the manufacturing process?
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Barry Rowland on October 11, 2016, 09:18:16 PM
My Hoffritz Super Tinker has one.  I date back to the can key days and didn't know Vic put them on their knives.  I'd kill to find an old Spam can that I could try this on!
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Mattexian on October 12, 2016, 05:35:45 AM
My first SAK, a 111mm Adventurer has one, and I recall testing out that feature once I found out it was there, on a can of Spam, many moons ago.  The only other one in my collection is on the Space Shuttle Master Craftsman.

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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 13, 2016, 12:30:52 AM
My old Craftsman vs. a canned ham.

Gene -
How old was this ham when you opened it?
I've been looking for anything that still uses a can key!

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 13, 2016, 12:36:22 AM
My first SAK, a 111mm Adventurer has one, and I recall testing out that feature once I found out it was there, on a can of Spam, many moons ago.  The only other one in my collection is on the Space Shuttle Master Craftsman.

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Was that a new can, or an old (very old) can? Been looking for a canned ham, SPAM, corned beef, etc., that still uses a can key! I've seen some things on YouTube that leads me to believe that a country or two (at least) in South America - notably at least Brazil - still have meat canned with a can key. A couple of the videos blow it by not removing the paper like they should. I remember coffee cans being opened with them. On those, I think the strip was at the very top just under the lid and you could mash the lid back down onto the can, but that's digging back many decades into my childhood.

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Mattexian on October 13, 2016, 01:19:55 AM


My first SAK, a 111mm Adventurer has one, and I recall testing out that feature once I found out it was there, on a can of Spam, many moons ago.  The only other one in my collection is on the Space Shuttle Master Craftsman.

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Was that a new can, or an old (very old) can? <snippage>
It was newish, in that first year after getting the Adventurer  ('87-88), about the time that Spam started coming in the new, pull-top cans. 


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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: AimlessWanderer on October 13, 2016, 01:27:20 AM
You can still get that kind of can here in the UK. My can key isn't quite obsolete yet  :D
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 13, 2016, 02:48:25 AM
You can still get that kind of can here in the UK. My can key isn't quite obsolete yet  :D

Should tell Vic to resurrect it! But wait until I've done the "Discontinued Challenge" first please  ;)  I'll be looking again in grocery section of the department store where I buy food just to see if there are any lurking about. The kipper snacks my father loved came in a flat sardine tin with roll up top and can key . . . sadly now only with pull tabs.

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: ColoSwiss on October 13, 2016, 02:53:04 AM
I'm old enough to remember can keys on a variety of items, ham and other canned meats, nuts, coffee, stew. A lot of them were items you might take on a camping trip, or have in a cabin.

About the only item you find them on nowadays in US grocery stores is corned beef imported from South America.
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: ColoSwiss on October 13, 2016, 05:39:09 AM
Here's a trio of Vics with slotted phillips s.d.

Old Fisherman and Salesman (short Super Tinker) with square phillips, and a more modern Super Tinker with round phillips.

Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Spork, Lord of Lime Jello! on October 13, 2016, 06:01:10 AM
It's possible that Tulip Luncheon meat is still packed in turn key cans. I've seen this brand in Asian grocery stores, but have never taken a close look.

Title: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jaya_man on October 13, 2016, 01:39:24 PM
A few in my collection.

Recent addition is the Original Craftsman

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161013/bd0a483e51af71fe72f26b3d4e964a44.jpg)(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161013/4638fb0475d9e4984960d3420bf219ce.jpg)

Tinker Small

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161013/11bd5d9587ee62289023b4d3736fd455.jpg)(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161013/16dcfb7908d24c79d736edb85893739e.jpg)

Another Craftsman

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161013/4c1988747a068df3892c7355549d0c8c.jpg)(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161013/26d7da424e9f133fe8aae3910624f156.jpg)

I know I have a couple more... just couldn't find the pics right now...

Seldom use the can keys... I remeber testing one on a can of corned beef from South America... Those are the ones I still see with can keys. Thanks to the wifey, corned beef is not on our regular menu


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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jaya_man on October 13, 2016, 01:50:20 PM
Ahh found them

Fisherman

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161013/6f572f6556cec0bfd3700055ed405487.jpg)

Old Grand Prix

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161013/072d0f842f583d60a51637debd63a2a7.jpg)


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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: gene stoner on October 13, 2016, 03:52:06 PM
My old Craftsman vs. a canned ham.

Gene -
How old was this ham when you opened it?
I've been looking for anything that still uses a can key!

John

Maybe a year old. If I recall I got it at BigLots.
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Mattexian on October 15, 2016, 01:10:33 AM
I checked the grocery aisle for canned meats, found two that still require a key, a spicy Brazilian corned beef and a plain store brand corned beef, made in Uruguay.  I didn't get any, as I prefer the corned beef hash, which in the small can has a pull tab, large can needs a regular can opener. 

I think off all my SAKs, only two or three don't have a can opener! (A Classic and a Rambler.)

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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Barry Rowland on October 15, 2016, 01:20:02 AM
Love that Craftsman Jaya man!  Pull tabs have taken all the fun out of canned goods. >:(
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: AimlessWanderer on October 15, 2016, 01:29:46 AM
I replied before, but didn't post a pic.
Correcting that right now  :salute:
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Spork, Lord of Lime Jello! on October 15, 2016, 01:51:32 AM
http://www.food.com/recipe/filipino-corned-beef-hash-over-rice-313157
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 15, 2016, 04:59:44 AM
http://www.food.com/recip...eef-hash-over-rice-313157 (http://www.food.com/recipe/filipino-corned-beef-hash-over-rice-313157)


Thanks . . . definitely foraging through the Meijer (regional dept. store chain similar to Target) grocery section, especially through the ethnic food aisle this weekend!

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: ReamerPunch on October 15, 2016, 05:13:36 AM
I don't have a SAK with a can key, but I do have a regular can key. It came with a spam can about three years ago. Spam cans are now ring-pulls. Sod sad, I enjoyed winding the can key around. It was very satisfying and fun. imagine how fun it would be with an actual SAK. oh boy, I have to get one. and an appropriate can.  :climber:
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 24, 2016, 04:20:56 PM
I don't have a SAK with a can key, but I do have a regular can key. It came with a spam can about three years ago. Spam cans are now ring-pulls. Sod sad, I enjoyed winding the can key around. It was very satisfying and fun. imagine how fun it would be with an actual SAK. oh boy, I have to get one. and an appropriate can.  :climber:

Can keys live!!
Found this corned beef with onion (one of three variants) at the local grocer yesterday. Look for something similar from Brazil or the Philippines where they still use can keys and can some of their canned meats with them.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Corned%20Beef%20Can%20Key.jpg)

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jaya_man on October 24, 2016, 04:53:13 PM
I don't have a SAK with a can key, but I do have a regular can key. It came with a spam can about three years ago. Spam cans are now ring-pulls. Sod sad, I enjoyed winding the can key around. It was very satisfying and fun. imagine how fun it would be with an actual SAK. oh boy, I have to get one. and an appropriate can.  :climber:

Can keys live!!
Found this corned beef with onion (one of three variants) at the local grocer yesterday. Look for something similar from Brazil or the Philippines where they still use can keys and can some of their canned meats with them.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Corned%20Beef%20Can%20Key.jpg)

John
Libby's.... yum


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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 24, 2016, 05:04:52 PM
I don't have a SAK with a can key, but I do have a regular can key. It came with a spam can about three years ago. Spam cans are now ring-pulls. Sod sad, I enjoyed winding the can key around. It was very satisfying and fun. imagine how fun it would be with an actual SAK. oh boy, I have to get one. and an appropriate can.  :climber:

Can keys live!!
Found this corned beef with onion (one of three variants) at the local grocer yesterday. Look for something similar from Brazil or the Philippines where they still use can keys and can some of their canned meats with them.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Corned%20Beef%20Can%20Key.jpg)

John
Libby's.... yum (http://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji12.png)


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Been a long time since I've had any corned beef! Will have to look up recipes for something more than cooking it with potatoes.

This one just arrived Saturday . . . an 84mm Small Tinker with split Phillips. Someone had tried to squeeze it together, probably not understanding what it was for. Was able to restore it by carefully using a small jewler's driver as a wedge. Needs some cleaning and its scales polished, but all the tools are in excellent shape. Looks like it had not much more than pocket carry and someone tweaking the can key split.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Can%20Key/Small%20Tinker%20with%20Phillips%20Can%20Key%2002.jpg)

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Barry Rowland on October 24, 2016, 09:00:17 PM
Nice one John!  When I first picked up that Super Tinker I had no idea what that slot was for either, and I was well into knife carrying vintage when Vic was turning them out.  I'd love to find some Corned Beef with the key on it to try this guy out.
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: cali-SAK-attack on October 25, 2016, 09:51:13 AM
 8)



ConTrail or Chem Trail ??  :think: :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh  :D  :whistle:
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: ReamerPunch on October 25, 2016, 01:25:54 PM
Maybe I could widen my reamer' sewing hole...  :think:
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 25, 2016, 01:36:44 PM
8)



ConTrail or Chem Trail ??  :think: :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :D :whistle:

I vote for potassium iodide and dry ice. Hope you've got your brollie with you!

 :woohoo: Another can key Phillips!

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 25, 2016, 01:37:20 PM
Maybe I could widen my reamer' sewing hole...  :think:

That might just work!
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jaya_man on October 26, 2016, 03:54:58 AM
All those corned beef pics got me craving... dropped by a convenience store and bought one...

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161026/85cef44094389ae71bce59a194cccb14.jpg)


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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Barry Rowland on October 26, 2016, 04:20:09 AM
Way to go Jayaman!! We were just talking about the same thing here!
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jaya_man on October 26, 2016, 04:25:13 AM
Way to go Jayaman!! We were just talking about the same thing here!
Now figuring how to cook the corned beef


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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 26, 2016, 05:30:42 AM
All those corned beef pics got me craving... dropped by a convenience store and bought one...

(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161026/85cef44094389ae71bce59a194cccb14.jpg)


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 :2tu:
There are all sorts of recipes on the interwebs for canned corned beef . . . all manner of hash and sandwich spread. I go for the sandwich spread and store it in a pint mason jar in the reefer for making lunch sandwiches.

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 26, 2016, 05:33:49 AM
Way to go Jayaman!! We were just talking about the same thing here!
Now figuring how to cook the corned beef (http://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji23.png)


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It's in U.S. Customary units, not metric but it should give you some ideas . . .
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/18873/one-skillet-corned-beef-hash/

 :D

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jaya_man on October 26, 2016, 05:48:47 AM
Way to go Jayaman!! We were just talking about the same thing here!
Now figuring how to cook the corned beef (http://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji23.png)


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It's in U.S. Customary units, not metric but it should give you some ideas . . .
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/18873/one-skillet-corned-beef-hash/ (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/18873/one-skillet-corned-beef-hash/)

 :D

John
Ah, thanks for the links...


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Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 26, 2016, 11:42:43 PM
Now that you've got the corned beef can opened, what to make with it? I make a sandwich spread for lunches.

John's Corned Beef Sandwich Spread:

Implements:
Ingredients:
Procedure:
Notes:
John

Edit for the metric folks:
1 teaspoon is ~5ml
1 tablespoon is 3x teaspoons, ~15ml
1 pint ~500ml (close enough for mixing bowls and storage containers)
1 quart ~1 liter (close enough for mixing bowls and storage containers)
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Boonies on October 27, 2016, 12:09:04 AM
Boy, that sounds good and getting to use the can key makes it even better......got to find a store that has it....... :cheers:
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Barry Rowland on October 27, 2016, 10:55:58 AM
+1!!!
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on October 28, 2016, 02:22:26 AM
This one just in . . . an older 91mm Tinker that completes the Tinker Can Key Family in Black. Already had the Small 84mm, Super and Deluxe. Found this one and reeled it in.
 :woohoo:

It was very, very grungy. Had some kind of caramel consistency goo in places. Went through a thorough scrubbing, some lube and new scales as the old ones were beyond reasonable redemption (and they were red). Large spear point and especially the small pen blades need some polishing. There's a little more restoration work, but this one was a gem in the very rough. . .

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Discontinued%20Challenge/Victorinox%2091mm%20Tinker%20wtih%20Can%20Key%20Phillips%2001.jpg)

Unlike the Small Tinker, nobody mucked around with the Can Key slot in the Phillips.

(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l290/j_a_lind/Other/Knives/SAK/Discontinued%20Challenge/Victorinox%2091mm%20Tinker%20wtih%20Can%20Key%20Phillips%2002.jpg)

All four are raring to go during the Discontinued Challenge after I've finished the Minimalist.

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Barry Rowland on October 28, 2016, 02:13:52 PM
 :like: !!!
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on April 13, 2018, 09:01:52 AM
Digging into the WayBack Machine, there are undoubtedly some who wonder why the Phillips driver on their older Victorinox SAK has a lengthwise slot in it down the middle through the Phillips tip. It's not a defect or someone taking a hack saw or Dremel with metal cutter to their SAK. It's a Can Key. I've seen a couple that the owner didn't know what it was and tried to squeeze it shut.

Unfortunately many photos in this thread suffer from the Photobucket Swiss Cheese Disease.

I purposefully acquired a Small Tinker, Tinker, Super Tinker and Deluxe Tinker with Can Keys, and put black scales on them. This is the Small Tinker . . .

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/822/41382574942_f08af70a00_b.jpg)

and this is what the Can Key looks like on it . . .

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/872/26553366797_4ee13057b4_b.jpg)

What, then is a Can Key? It's used to wind up metal strips around the edge of a can. For those of us old enough, we can remember sardine tins, canned meats (ham in particular), and coffee cans having a two parallel score lines about a quarter inch apart around the can with a small tab sticking out at the can seam. Attached to the bottom of the can was a "key" that could be used on the tab, winding it up, and pulling up the strip between the score lines, thereby opening the can.

This is a new can of corned beef with onion that has a can key strip. It's canned in South America and it has pictographic instructions on how to open it with the key that was attached . . .

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/901/41382519602_8a82a69ba1_b.jpg)

Of course with a SAK that has a Can Key Phillips, who would use the key the can came with (which sometimes falls off and gets lost). Winding up the strip from around the can using the Phillips . . .

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/803/41424592481_d91ed85aaa_b.jpg)

The strip tightly wound up around the can key can be pulled off (carefully) and discarded.
CAUTION:
The strip edges and the can edges are SHARP and can easily cut you just like any other can or can lid edge on a can that's been opened using a can opener (or pull tab now).

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/892/41424591471_0efd475497_b.jpg)

I make a sandwich spread using a recipe I concocted for the the corned beef with onion and refrigerate it in Ball (aka Mason) jars for making sandwiches at lunch time.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/807/27552858118_5b50e576b7_b.jpg)

That's the truncated version of what I used the Can Key for . . . as part of the 30 Day Discontinued Challenge as the Can Key Phillips was discontinued some years ago.

The recipe for this was posted a little way up this thread . . .

https://forum.multitool.o...sg1368342.html#msg1368342 (https://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,68805.msg1368342.html#msg1368342)

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Myron on April 13, 2018, 04:25:53 PM
Fun to see an old thread bumped.  I have two VSAKs with can key openers, a small Tinker and a large Tinker.  I am the original owner of the large Tinker and for years and years I always wondered what the slot in the philips head implement was, and one day my mom or dad told me.  I still remember the feeling of revelation that I got.  :) 

(https://i.imgur.com/MwUfQ2t.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/2khp1IU.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/AC0Cmff.jpg)

Myron
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: jalind on April 13, 2018, 05:51:03 PM
Fun to see an old thread bumped.  I have two VSAKs with can key openers, a small Tinker and a large Tinker.  I am the original owner of the large Tinker and for years and years I always wondered what the slot in the philips head implement was, and one day my mom or dad told me.  I still remember the feeling of revelation that I got.  :) 

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Myron

 :tu: :tu:

Excellent! Showing my age now . . .
I remember the coffee cans, rolling top sardine tins and the large canned ham tins when I was in grade school.

John
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Steinar on April 13, 2018, 06:09:44 PM
I was always happy to be allowed to open sardine tins requiring a key when I was a kid. Pull tab tins were boring, but there was something about the key and using it I enjoyed. Early gadget enjoyment, I guess. The sardines requiring a key obviously tasted better. ;)
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Exeter on May 20, 2018, 06:49:16 PM
Just discovered this club! Here's my Ol' Grumpy, I mean old Grand Prix. Wish I could open something with it, but I don't remember seeing those kind of tins since the 80's, back then as a kid I also loved opening those cans with their own keys. Now everything has pulltabs, I just "complained" to the Mrs. about the can conspiracy against SAK folk half an hour ago. :D

(Interesting fact: my Grand Prix came with the same BBC advertisment scales as Jaya's on the 1st page. I always thought someone just swapped the scales, but this seems to hint that that company had a pretty good taste in promotional gifts.)

Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Barry Rowland on May 21, 2018, 01:19:13 AM
 :tu: :like: Nice one!!
Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Hofy on April 11, 2021, 04:38:09 AM
I bought this Small (84mm) Tinker off eBay a few years back in like new condition,  I think it was around $8.  Definitely less than $10.
After seeing this thread I started checking all my knives and hit the jackpot with this one.

Title: Re: Can Key Owner's Club: Show Us Your Can Keys and What You Can Do With Them!
Post by: Barry Rowland on April 11, 2021, 04:57:43 AM
Great one! 👍👍