Creative Uses For Empty WD-40 Gallon Metal Can?

[evh]

Thoughts on how to reuse and re-purpose in the shop? I have used Google and Pinterest and found nothing. I searched this forum and found nothing. I have to believe this has been discussed. What clever things can I do with the can?

 

[nutjob]

I had a empty metal Stihl can that I use for the press brake accessory's. Cut the side out, double folded over the edges so no shape edges to get cut by.

Sorry, its not a good pic, a bit hard to get too...

Kevin

 

[driftpin]

Got a rust-bucket car? Pop-rivet it over somewhere, preferably upside-down.

Cut it up, use whatever-piece looks-best, contact cement it to a piece of 1/8" Masonite, glue some strong magnets to it, and slap it on the side/front of a steel cabinet, toolbox, or wherever.

 

[Arkansas COB]

 

[pancho400cid]

Wash it out thoroughly.

Next party you go to, fill it with the beverage of your choice and take outsized, exaggerated swigs from it all night.

For enhanced effect, yell things like "GETTIN' MY WILLIE DAWG ON YO!!!!!!!"


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[Shiftless]

Pancho has the best idea so far.

I had a pretty old empty listed in the GJ classifieds but nobody wanted it at the time. I tossed it into recycling.

Notice the wire handle and the old style cap.

 

[MBfreak]

Arkansas Cob.
You are the winner!!

If you could only let your great co-Arkansian from Turkey Scratch,
Robert Lockwood Jr play it. A Bit late maybe.

Ola

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

I had a similar can that I cut the side out of and used as an oil change pan for small engines. Cut the top out of another and used it to store a grease gun.

 

[firebirdparts]

I've got a nice lamp made out of a can with the bottom removed, but it's round. Wouldn't be quite as good with a rectangular can, but not bad.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Use it for some other garage chemical, or recycle it.

 

[Robby321]

Save it for 100 years and a American Picker off spring will give you $300..

 

[NUTTSGT]

I believe I asked this same question about a year ago. Empty can is still sitting around here somewhere.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=412978

 

[LS6 Tommy]

My dad cut up a square one gallon metal can and installed it as a back stop for his belt drive wire brush/buffing wheel setup. Been there since I was a wee lad.

Tommy

 

[nadogail]

I use them for (appropriately re-labelled) for paint thinner and other liquid storage.

I don't trust the plastic jugs some solvent are sold in.

 

[larry_g]

For me I find that old stuff makes great garbage can liners. That way I don't have to add on the the shop to store useless stuff. Don't confuse useless with worthless.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[finn]

Thin metal cans like those used for WD40 and lacquer thinner usually aren’t coated inside. They corrode rapidly from the inside, and then contaminate the contents.

I used ti try to repurpose them, but now put them in the recycling bin.

Don’t know what the recycler (WM) does with them, as the regular scrap yard no longer accepts steel, let alone pays for it, since there isn’t a market for it.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I used to use them for chip cans, but nowadays they go in the recycle bin.

 

[Bogie1632]

Cut out the top. Clean up the edge. Paint/protect exposed metal. Now you have a man cave bathroom worthy trashcan.

My next empty will likely become a lamp or a fridge magnet depending on condition when I empty it.

V/T
Bogie

 

[Ralf11]

a water container obviously

you will then displace the water by using gravity