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Friday, 12 December 2014

Are they doing this just to confuse me?

My old friend Airfix seem to be throwing me something of a curve ball. Are they testing my sanity? (see below, two very similar tins [yes/no] delete as applicable, so how do you open them):


But behold, the one on the left "screws off" (if you pardon my expression) from the top, despite having a 'fake' lid on it, while the one on the right "pops off" with a flip off lid (see below, which has totally confused me):


No, but wait for it the one on right also "screws off" but from the bottom (see below, dual action):


What the?

Life is hard enough without this additional taxing mental strain while I am trying to relax! Oh, and despite the new one despite being taller, it only contains 12ml, that's 2ml less paint than the shorter/wider one on the left (which had a capacity of 14ml)

:(

And I thought model instructions could sometimes be hard to understand!
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4 comments:

  1. Tim Gow12 December 2014 at 09:58

    I think it might be an age thing. I remember the days when all you needed to open a paint tin - yes tin - was brute force and a blunt screwdriver.
    Possibly it's to do with making the lids childproof - so that only children are able to open them.

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  2. Geordie an Exiled FoG12 December 2014 at 10:27

    Most probably Tim ;)

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  3. Paul Foster13 December 2014 at 21:37

    Wah!

    On the plus side the empty tins my yield some useful plastic conversion material!

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  4. Geordie an Exiled FoG15 December 2014 at 19:01

    The smooth twist lock and flip lid do lend themselves nicely to some Sci-Fi conversions :)

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