How To Use Bunker Can Opener

This will align the wheel of the opener where it needs to be to cut into the lid.

How to use bunker can opener. To use a manual can opener open the arms of the can opener and place the metal tooth on the lip of the can. Requires only one hand. It will grip your can firmly while you can crank up the key that tends to rotate the wheel. I have been the victim of many serrated can lids. Then there is the side can opener which came into existence in the 1980s.

A one handed opener the bunker firmly grips the can while you crank the key that rotates the serrated wheel. In short the bunker is made of plier type handles a key and a serrated wheel to ease the task of opening cans. Squeeze the arms together for a secure fit and start turning handle. Shortly after inventors started messing around with two wheeled cutters but the model that grips and cuts simultaneously the same one we know and love and use today didn t appear till the 1930s. I liked to eat a lot of tuna fish when i was a child and many times i had to use a regular can opener.

They were shaped like claws to cut around the edge of the can and were very very sharp. This simple can opener is commonly utilized to open the cork of all glass bottles and the flat beer cans. My appetite for tuna was so great that i was not a patient child thus cutting my hand on many of those serrated lids after using a can opener. To work the bunker can opener you first need to grip the can with the help of the pliers. This one uses a cutter and a roller wheel that cuts the side of the can below the rim instead of cutting downwards on the top.

Check price on amazon. With one single piece of pressed metal and one pointed corner you can use it to pierce any lid. The newest bunker can openers are pretty much the same as the single wheel variety now. Church key opener.