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They look cool and work great. I use them for all outdoor projects that aren’t attached to my house. My wife doesn’t like the idea. 😂
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I used milk bottle tops in my greenhouse to secure the plastic. The metal washers kept tearing through the plastic.

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That’s a darn fine idea.

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It is a good option. It is simple  and It doesnt cost a lot of money.
 
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what a fabulous idea! we homebrew and tend to accumulate a lot of used caps, and it kills me to throw them away.
 
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Just flip them over and attach to a wooden handle, and you have a dandy fish scaler.

My father's fishing friends came up with this. I have no idea how it happened. Fishing is fishing, and beer is beer. How could they possibly connect?
 
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I use them to permanently attach guitar straps so they don't fall off when I'm playing

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I'm collecting beer bottle caps to make a pair of tables. I want to apply them like tiles to the top, into a thick layer of grouting material.

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You’re planning on posting that right Cindy? Please post it on this thread to make sure I see it!

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Cindy, you could make serious money selling them for man-cave decorations.
 
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Scott Stiller wrote:You’re planning on posting that right Cindy? Please post it on this thread to make sure I see it!



I will  certainly try to remember where this thread is when I get the project rolling. I'm still in collection phase, though I probably am close to having enough good quality caps to get at least one of them done. (Do you know how to get a pry off cap to not be wickedly bent? Use a butter knife or spoon on top of the cap and lift gently in multiple places around the edge!)

I have plenty of my usual favorites,  and a small (50-70) donation of brews I don't drink from a friend I shared this idea with.

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This post is saving a very small part of my life right now, and that makes me all warm and glowy~
 
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We have a boot cleaner we made from screwing bottle caps flipped so the bottom is facing up; onto a piece of plywood, it works pretty good... I've also heard of people screwing them in the same way to wooden steps that tend to be slippery in the winter to add grip.

I'll try to get a picture up here later.

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...you can also make a floor finish with them, I haven't, but its in one of the folders in my brain titled 'maybe try this one day?!?'.

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What would be the best way to set them in place on a floor or table without adding too much cost/weight?

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Here is the base materials for my future bottle cap tables.
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That special board for showers
That special board for showers

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Aimee Hall wrote:What would be the best way to set them in place on a floor or table without adding too much cost/weight?



From what I've read, epoxy is really the only choice for this kind of job. It will add some weight, but not more weight than say a hardwood floor.

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So I needed some washers for a project. I looked at some at the hardware store and thought to myself, "Why are these things so darn expensive? The materials to make them can't cost more than a penny!" Then I started wondering what I could use for washers that WOULD only cost a penny. Voila! A PENNY! I just drilled a hole in the middle the right size and I had as many washers as I had pennies. Don't tell the guvmint!
Of course I salvage washers wherever I find them and have been known to use all sorts of stuff for washers, but that day I needed washers about the size of a penny and I wasn't about to spend more than that on them.

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As a kid we used to nail them, sharp edge up, on a piece of wood, they made a great mud scraper.
 
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When we lived in Senegal, we saw many, many crafts made of bottle caps.




They also make amazing crafts using aluminum cans.




I can't find any pictures, but we had a push toy for our kids made of cans and wire where, as they pushed it a little man played the drums.

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There's a quirky house in Bisbee, AZ with lots of bottle caps as decoration.  Couldn't find my pictures but here's from someone else.
webpagehttps://www.azplantlady.com/2014/05/on-road-to-bisbee-arizona.html

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May Lotito wrote:There's a quirky house in Bisbee, AZ with lots of bottle caps as decoration.  Couldn't find my pictures but here's from someone else.
webpagehttps://www.azplantlady.com/2014/05/on-road-to-bisbee-arizona.html



That's a cool decoration with the bottle caps. And now I want to visit Bisbee!

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I have a vague recollection of bottle caps being loosely screwed or nailed onto a handle to make something akin to a rattle or castanet...as vague recollections go, I sense them paired together on a nail so they could bang into each other.

I've seen creations like the ones from Senegal in other developing nations where they are much more likely to reuse materials than we are in "modern" North America.

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Side question: where do you folks find bottle caps any more? Up here, darn near everything comes in cans. Except for fancy imported German / European beers that I can hardly afford unless it's a special occasion.
 
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Scott Stiller wrote:They look cool and work great. I use them for all outdoor projects that aren’t attached to my house. My wife doesn’t like the idea. 😂


If your chair is missing a floor foot, you can use this until you get a new one. Just make sure that the screw is sunken so as not to rub on the floor.
 
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Lauren Ritz wrote:I used milk bottle tops in my greenhouse to secure the plastic. The metal washers kept tearing through the plastic.


What a wonderful idea!
 
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