Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

CthuluSpecialK t1_ja6xmvz wrote

Reply to comment by Psychological-Set125 in Had to get creative when the tab didn't pop by kwall24

Oh, in my cases the tab broke off before the scored part of the lid was pushed down. I might've misunderstood what happened to OP, but in my cases as the tabs broke off (I don't remember the brand of drink) I just knocked the scored part of the lid inward with something hard. Just a little "bop" down holding something hard.

2

kwall24 OP t1_ja7iqzi wrote

The rivet didn't hold. The whole tab pulled up, so it doesn't have the leverage to pop the top correctly and just keeps peeling from the middle of the can. You can see it in the picture, though it's easy to miss.

2

contrabardus t1_ja9psey wrote

You can just use something to pop it open by pushing down on the area that the tab would normally push down.

A pen, a lighter, a spoon, a key, whatever. Just a quick little jab would do it. You could even do it with the broken tab.

What everyone is saying is that you made an extra effort for no real reason by removing the top like that.

The "problem" was easily solved just by jabbing at the area the tab would normally dislodge with just about anything else.

1