Reusing Soda Cans, Beer Bottles
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Reality Check Posted:
Regarding Tawnda's post above, Aluminum can tabs being redeemed for dialysis or wheelchairs or anything else is a very old urban legend. It's not true. See here for details:
www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp
Don't waste your time or good intentions saving them.
Although that article states that the tabs cannot be used to "buy time for dialysis patients" they can be collected for charities!!
Ronald McDonald House charities do collect can tabs! To find out more http://www.mcdonalds.com/content/rm ... donald_house/pop_tab_collection.html
Sorry Reality Check, you should have checked your sources!
Post By Ali (Guest Post)
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Speaking of the glass bottle wall, I once saw a picture of a shed that had a wall made of adobe-like material with bottles placed in it, surrounded by the adobe, so that the upper halves and necks faced the outside of the building and the bottoms were flush with the interior of the wall. Not only did this allow light to filter into the shed in interesting colors and patterns, but the wall made a hauntingly lovely sound when the wind blew past the bottlenecks. I've been intrigued with the idea ever since I heard if that.
Post By Cathy S (Guest Post)
RE: tabs from pop cans & beer bottles
These tabs CAN be used for many different charities. The Ronald McDonald House in Indianapolis uses them by recycling the donated tabs and using the profits to offset costs of housing parents and families of children receiving services at Riley Children's Hospital. The fee for the familes is $10 a night or less because of the many people who donate these tabs. Myself included.
Post By Stephanie (Guest Post)
RE: can tabs & dialysis
Regarding Tawnda's post above, Aluminum can tabs being redeemed for dialysis or wheelchairs or anything else is a very old urban legend. It's not true. See here for details:
www.snopes.com/business/redeem/pulltabs.asp
Don't waste your time or good intentions saving them.
Post By Reality check (Guest Post)
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I made one of the most fuel efficient camp stoves out of 2 Dr Pepper cans. It burns Denatured Alchohol, and fits in the palm of my hand. Great for hiking! My favorite drinking glass is made from a Sapporo Japanese beer can with the top removed. It is very sturdy as the can is made of steel. One of the Kemton brothers of the Airheads Beemer Club makes the coolest tall glasses from old beer bottles.
Post By Krossthred Robertson (Guest Post)
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For bottles, you might want to visit...
Jackie Stack Lagakos:
http://www.bottlestructures.com
Edourd Arsenault:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/valence/bottlehouses
Rhyolite Bottle Building:
http://www.legendsofamerica.com
Tressa Prisbrey's Bottle Village:
http://echomatic.home.mindspring.com/bv/
Post By KAREN (Guest Post)
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What is a good glue for gluing Aluminum cans?
Post By Gordon Kerr (Guest Post)
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Seems BeckyTN has posted the exact instruction for the Lighted Christmas Tree off the Aluminous Publishing website.
Post By Enter your name. (Guest Post)
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Check out http://www.aluminouspublishing.com for lots of aluminum can craft projects. Lots of wreaths and Christmas ornaments.
Post By Enter your name. (Guest Post)
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My alcoholic uncle made a table and two chairs using beer cans and boxes for me when I was younger. They were very sturdy and I was impressed. He also had a beer bottle headboard. Made by facing one upright and gluing to one face down, etc. He had the matching side boards and and everything. He was working on making a guest frame out of his skoal cans
Post by Suzanne S.
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I've found lots of cool sites showing the finished product, but they make you pay for instructions. My best advice is to get some soda cans and some tin glue and find a picture of something, like a bi plane or a hot rod or something, and put it together in your own fashion. Here is a site with some cool ideas.. http://www.tesscar-aluminum-craft.com/
Post By Matthew (Guest Post)
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Lighted Christmas Tree
225 Aluminum cans
225 Christmas Tree Lights
Scissors
Ice Pick
Large Phillips head screwdriver
Metal Glue
Wire
2 Lawn stakes (5')
Remove the tops from 225 aluminum cans. Trim the cans to 2" from the paint line. Using the ice pick, poke a hole in the center of each can bottom. Use the Phillips head screwdriver to enlarge the hole to fit a small Christmas tree light.
Glue the cans in 30 rows with the following number of cans in each row: 1,2,3,4,5,6,3,4,5,6,7,8,5,6,7,8,9,10,7,8,9,10,11,12,9,10,11,12,13 and 14. Push a Christmas tree light through the hole in the bottom of each can. Prop the tree against two 5' lawn stakes and secure with wire.
Post by BeckyTN
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you could fill the glass bottles most of the way with sand, then stick a candle in the mouth. you may want to pour a little bit of melted wax in right before you put in the taper candle so that it sticks well.
Post By nora (Guest Post)
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If you have enough beer bottles that you can save the caps, you can cut squares of fabric and sew around each cap. It doesn't have to be pretty, the back of the cap isn't seen. Hot glue onto your favorite wreath style or make your own wreath from wood or cardboard. A great kids craft. My sister won a first place ribbon at the county fair when we were kids by making this wreath. (That was also when most sodas came in glass bottles. ha ha)
The tabs from aluminum cans can be taken off and collected for local dialysis centers. In many areas dialysis patients are given a discount for so many tabs.
Maybe you could recreate the license plate purses using soda cans, only making them smaller for dinner purses.
You could glue a row of soda cans together and fill with sand and use as a decorative door stop, book end, etc. Seal the top with an apoxy type glue.
Post By Tawnda (Guest Post)
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