Got a broken wrench and no way to open that cold beer?

Problem Solved!!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/88905959/the-beer-tool-bottle-opener-original?ref=v1_other_2

also known as a non-hammer use of a harbor freight tool

I always use my lock blade pocket knife. Can't say I didn't learn anything in 7 years of sailing.

why the piece of string????

if you want to hang it on a peg/nail/hook, is the closed end loop not sufficient?

how else are they supposed to justify selling you 1 broken wrench for the same price as a set of non-broken ones?

Be a man. Use your teeth.

Grtechguy wrote: Problem Solved!! http://www.etsy.com/listing/88905959/the-beer-tool-bottle-opener-original?ref=v1_other_2

That is a twist off cap.

When I read the thread title, the first thing that came to mind was, "Shotgun!"

I couldn't locate a bottle opener at a bonfire this week so just grabbed a regular old pair of pliers.

I like the thought of somebody going through the rigmarole of breaking out the angle grinder and the cutoff wheel to fabricate one of these openers in a garage beer-mergency, while his buddy looks at him through the shower of sparks, deadpan, and twists off the cap.

Appleseed wrote: Be a man. Use your teeth.

I had "Or you could use your teeth...like a berkeleying man" typed out and figured MAYBE I should do a quick scan first. Nicely done.

i tried the teeth once, the cap won, now i am missing a chunk of tooth.

EastCoastMojo wrote: That is a twist off cap.

Yup, It's a Sprecher

Bah, twist-offs are uncouth. I use an opener on them anyway.

The German way of opening one - and I think this must be on the high school graduation exam over here, because everyone can do it perfectly - is to somehow lever the cap off with your cigarette lighter using your index finger as a fulcrum. I'm convinced it's one of those skills you have to learn early or you never learn it at all, because every time I try I make a huge hash out of the whole thing. Something ends up with a big gouge out of it - if it's a good day, it's my lighter, if not it's my finger - and the cap will look like a good luck charm for a demolition derby but still manage to be thoroughly affixed to the bottle. No comprende.

In reply to Jay:

We do that here in Wisconsin too. But we have a lot of german descent people here though. I'll use by pocket it knife in the same capacity.

The tricky way is to use a 12 point socket and your drill.

Another way is to use two bottles to open one. It's the same idea as using the lighter for leverage but turn the 'opener' bottle upside down and use the edge of the cap to force the 'drinking' bottle's cap off. I swear the upside down bottle will not open because of the extra pressure of the column beer above it.

p.s. now I am drinking a New Glarus Two Women Lager.

Jay wrote: Bah, twist-offs are uncouth. I use an opener on them anyway. The German way of opening one - and I think this must be on the high school graduation exam over here, because *everyone* can do it perfectly - is to somehow lever the cap off with your cigarette lighter using your index finger as a fulcrum. I'm convinced it's one of those skills you have to learn early or you never learn it at all, because every time I try I make a huge hash out of the whole thing. Something ends up with a big gouge out of it - if it's a good day, it's my lighter, if not it's my finger - and the cap will look like a good luck charm for a demolition derby but still manage to be thoroughly affixed to the bottle. No comprende.

Yeah, I learned that move in high school. It's handy, but only if you have a lighter on hand.

Open it with a table or keys, lol.

I finally figured that one out about a month before I quit smoking. Hint: Thumb is a beefier fulcrum than index.

According to one of the "unofficial" official manuals that came with our MINI, there are 15 places to open a beer on the car.

I think they missed a couple.

I used to open them on the bumper of my Impala post ride at the MTB trail. Steel is real baby.

The Israeli soldiers were using their Galil's to open their beer bottles with, damaging the rifle. So they redesigned the Galil to include a bottle opener.

The lock blade knife thing and the knuckle as a fulcrum is how I usually open them. It's faster than the regular openers, and I always know where my knife is. If you cut yourself, you probably don't need another beer anyway.

They used to give away a Church Key with every 6-pack, why kill a wench?

patgizz wrote: i tried the teeth once, the cap won, now i am missing a chunk of tooth.

+1. Also tried a table once and broke a chunk of that off. I now have a bottle opener on my keychain.

the buckle on my awesome USA made belt has a bottle opener on the back side. pop open belt, open beer, re-latch belt. or not.

I have two bottle openers on my keychain.

Paint can openers are good for bottles too.

What happened to the good old days? I.E.

Legend had it that former Cleveland Indian Joe Charboneau used to open beers

......wait for it.

with his effin EYE SOCKET!!!!!

wuggghhhhhh.....gives me the willies just thinking about that.