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From: Vass on 11 Aug 2010 10:34


"SIRPip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Obviously jamming the lid in a door wouldn't work, even though
> everybody's Dad used to get it to work (I had to give it a go anyway,
> for the sake of good form. I'll repair the door and frame later).

I have a nice (measures) 20mm scar on my right middle finger
from a Corona Cola bottle exploding on me while trying to perform this very
action in a door when I was. erm..... 9ish
Not recommended.
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From: Eiron on 11 Aug 2010 10:39
On 11/08/2010 15:34, Vass wrote:
>
>
> "SIRPip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:xn0gxrd0g3bg66h01q(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> Obviously jamming the lid in a door wouldn't work, even though
>> everybody's Dad used to get it to work (I had to give it a go anyway,
>> for the sake of good form. I'll repair the door and frame later).
>
> I have a nice (measures) 20mm scar on my right middle finger
> from a Corona Cola bottle exploding on me while trying to perform this
> very action in a door when I was. erm..... 9ish
> Not recommended.

Corona Cola? Are you sure it wasn't Dandelion and Burdock?

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From: Vass on 11 Aug 2010 10:47


"Eiron" <E1ron(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 11/08/2010 15:34, Vass wrote:
>>
>>
>> "SIRPip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:xn0gxrd0g3bg66h01q(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>>
>>> Obviously jamming the lid in a door wouldn't work, even though
>>> everybody's Dad used to get it to work (I had to give it a go anyway,
>>> for the sake of good form. I'll repair the door and frame later).
>>
>> I have a nice (measures) 20mm scar on my right middle finger
>> from a Corona Cola bottle exploding on me while trying to perform this
>> very action in a door when I was. erm..... 9ish
>> Not recommended.
>
> Corona Cola? Are you sure it wasn't Dandelion and Burdock?
>
hmm could have been, maybe I'm mixed up with Sodastream
I know the Pop man had Aids (groan)
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Vass

From: TOG on 11 Aug 2010 12:32
On 11 Aug, 15:29, "SIRPip" <gingerbl...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>

In my experience of stuck-lids-on-jars-an'-bockles, it was the sun
that did it. I've always found that soaking the jar and lid in really
hot water does the trick.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 11 Aug 2010 13:25
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "SIRPip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com>
saying something like:

>Resigned to the inevitable breaking of the lid, I returned to the
>bloody jar twenty minutes later. "Just one more go". I can never
>resist, you know. One annahalf fingerwidths on the jar, half a finger
>on the lid and twist - pop. Well, I'm buggered.
>
>How did that happen, then? OK, it had been sitting in the sun for 20
>minutes, but I'm certain it hadn't moved during the tool-assisted
>rotations - and I gave it a twist after I'd put the tools away, just
>for the sake of it. I don't really care how TBH, just that it did.

I dunno, but I'd like to know, too.
A year ago I was trying to dismantle a nold brass lens and it simply
wouldn't unscrew, despite trying jam-jar gripper, many sessions of
fingering and heaving. I just left it by the PC and would pick it up
from time to time and give it a twist. Then I put it to one side and
forgot about it.

A couple of weeks ago I picked it up, lightly twisted the ends, and it
came apart. Astonishment.
I reckon the heat changes in the room over the winter and summer had an
effect on the brass and alloy interface, plus my attempts had
undoubtably affected it.

Now, I can't get the inner lenses to unscrew - fuckin' thing.
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