Extraordinary uses for a plactic 35mm film container.

simon ess said:
Erm....

A long time ago.....erm.....misspent youth.....erm......keeping stuff in........erm....

But I didn't inhale.
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....And I thought I was the only one who did that! Nowadays I don't take any... erm... recreational substances... not even alcohol, so I keep pound coins and 50p pieces in a film can for parking machines.

Btw, it's much better if you inhale... deeply, man! :D

 
Storing screws, nuts and bolts, springs etc from dismantled electronics. I have one with some drawing pins in on my desk. Also quite useful for keeping loose medication in a bag.
 
Thought of another when I was in the garage, I use one to store valve cores and the little tool for fitting them :)
 
They can be used as a handy receptacle for holding a small amount of fixer for you to perform a clip test on a film's leader in order to assess the fixer's strength. It saves a drinks glass from being tainted with 'fixer flavour'.
 
Geocaching is a great idea as is the flash diffuser. We have hundreds of the things stashed away here at the lab (I keep thinking about creating a sculpture) so I made up a little geocache / postal container. We use them for sending out processing vouchers and mailers.

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A cut down one for a saxophone body cap and I have several full of special nuts and bolts that were saved for something but I can't remember what.
 
To add to my sample pot use, might I add a few more...
Odds'n'sods storage for little bits of stuff like rail joiners, panel pins etc. for model railways and other hobbies.
£2 coin saving - a tub holds about £30 worth and stops the cat knocking the pile over! (I've marked the tub at the £20 line so I bag the coins up for Mrs Nod to use as her work float.)
4 AAA cells fit in one.
At my parents' old house I drilled a suitable hole in the bottom of a gate hanger which was screwed to the wall so they could hide a front door key in case of lock-out.
Any number of liquids can be transported in the things (tip - DON'T leave one full of milk...) as long as you use the red (? Ilford ?) caps on non food ones.
Cat dissuaders - simply throw an empty one at the cat when you can't be bothered to get up to chastise it!
Cut a cross in the lid and slide it over the top of a cane in the garden so you don't have your eye out. (With the can on, of course!)
 
Yv said:
Cat Toys, mine love batting them around the wooden floors! As I just discovered :D
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Now why didn't i think of that .....one of my cats considers everything that is small enough to be used as a "football' belongs to him!.......i guess it will make a changé to search out film canisters from under thé furniture instead of pens, rermote controls, coins and coasters!! :D
 
I use one for keeping screwdriver bits in at work. Probably the most useful thing I've used one for!
 
Asha said:
Now why didn't i think of that .....one of my cats considers everything that is small enough to be used as a "football' belongs to him!.......i guess it will make a changé to search out film canisters from under thé furniture instead of pens, rermote controls, coins and coasters!! :D
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We already seem to have a collection scattered across the house :D
 
Just found another use for one of my few remaining ones - marked up as a Redex measure for the bikes. To get the right (well, close enough!) concentration, I reckon I need 40ml of Redex/tankful in each bike so I've marked a canister up at 30 and 10. The topless canister sits nicely atop the Redex bottle's cap too.

A bit niche, perhaps but this IS F&C and the thread is "Extraordinary uses"!
 
I've used them for carrying suncream, keeping ear plugs in, for keeping cufflinks together, and for keeping small screws/pins ect.
 
As long as I can remember, I've always used them as storage for all kind of little screws, parts and electronic related components, and only on special occasions for storing film. :D
 
I occasionally make audio adaptor leads for people. A 35mm cannister nicely houses a 1/4" jack socket.


Steve.
 
And a colleague of mine used to keep one full of (dead) death watch beetles for demonstration purposes in lectures as the students had only ever read about them, but never seen them in real life.
 
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