candid comments … - … on opening cans

candid comments elektor december 1980 — 12-17 candid comments... ... on opening cans How to open a can. Yes, we know that you grab the ring in the top and heave, but a problem arises when you try and push a 2 x 3 inch printed circuit board and assorted components down through the hole it leaves. Not to mention transformers, sheets of perspex, hanging weights, motors, loudspeakers, relays and a whole host of LEDs. As you will find, in the pages of this issue, all these things and more have to, somehow, find their way into the average sized can. Read on to find out how simple it can be. make a pointed comment on what not to do. We at Elektor have this habit of trying to keep as many of our readers as possible. So if you are reading this with an Aerosol or other spray can in your hand with a view to cutting it up, please — please put it in the nearest rubbish bin. These cans are not for opening, even in the fourth category - impossible (more on this later). For the record, many o...