What do you do with beer caps?

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  1. singletary

    singletary Pundit (825) Nov 8, 2015 Mississippi

    I made a board of all the beer caps that I have drank over the last year. It has 108 bottle caps with each being a different one. Wondering what other people do with their caps? I an now trying to save enough to do a top of a table.
     
    #1 singletary, Aug 8, 2016
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  2. HeyItsThatGuy

    HeyItsThatGuy Initiate (0) Feb 27, 2016 Illinois

    Garbage for me. Seems cool what you're doin' but for me, the only thing I treasure is the Liquid goodness passing through my lips down into the eternal abyss that I call my stomach. :grinning:
     
    #2 HeyItsThatGuy, Aug 9, 2016
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  3. schteve

    schteve Pundit (884) Sep 10, 2003 New Jersey

    Further down in this forum are a couple of recent threads with people showing off their handiwork. Check'em out!
     
    #3 schteve, Aug 9, 2016
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  4. DoctorZombies

    DoctorZombies Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,827) Feb 1, 2015 Florida
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    I used to save them and give them to the kids. I still have a small box full in storage. Now, they go into the recycling bin...
     
    #4 DoctorZombies, Aug 9, 2016
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  5. singletary

    singletary Pundit (825) Nov 8, 2015 Mississippi

    Thanks I will check it out.
     
    #5 singletary, Aug 9, 2016
  6. BalancingBrooms

    BalancingBrooms Pooh-Bah (2,894) Aug 22, 2013 California
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    Magnets, great for the fridge. Wife hangs way too much stuff so they're handy to her and aesthetically pleasing to me
     
    #6 BalancingBrooms, Aug 11, 2016
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  7. Coronaeus

    Coronaeus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,744) Apr 21, 2014 Canada (ON)
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    I make mine into magnets. I glue a small piece of wood to the underside of the caps, and then glue a small magnet to the wood. This extends the rough edge of the caps away from whatever surface I am putting them on. My wife "let's me" put them on our metal fire escape door, and she actually likes to play around with them and arrange them artistically. Here are a couple photos of my more boring current configuration and the underside of the caps.

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    #7 Coronaeus, Aug 12, 2016
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  8. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    [​IMG] I also put mine on boards with screws and velcro. (This picture is a few months old; the board on the far right is almost full now and l have about two hundred more to add...)
     
    #8 SirBottlecap, Aug 20, 2016
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  9. SirBottlecap

    SirBottlecap Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2013 California

    singletary... post a picture of your caps!! How are you mounting them to the board?
     
    #9 SirBottlecap, Aug 20, 2016
  10. singletary

    singletary Pundit (825) Nov 8, 2015 Mississippi

    I have not been able to get a picture to load, you can see on my facebook page. I used craft glue to Mont on a cork board. I am save some caps to put on a tabletop and have started a second board of caps.
     
    #10 singletary, Aug 21, 2016
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  11. Brutaltruth

    Brutaltruth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,539) Mar 22, 2014 Ohio
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    Awesome! I have mine in water jugs from cooler and have dubbed them
    "liver damage".
    Cheers
     
    #11 Brutaltruth, Aug 22, 2016
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  12. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    I create magnets with my caps and stick them on the underside of the heat ducts that run along the ceiling of my man cave. There are around 3,400 of them so far, and I'm about done.
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    #12 PapaGoose03, Aug 23, 2016
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  13. dcotom

    dcotom Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,637) Aug 4, 2014 Iowa
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    I keep mine in a large glass jar in anticipation of future projects. I also keep my wine corks in a large cork cage in anticipation of future projects.
     
    #13 dcotom, Aug 26, 2016
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  14. Shanex

    Shanex Grand Pooh-Bah (4,960) Dec 10, 2015 France
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    Wow some of you are creative. I'm just another dummy trashing them.
     
    #14 Shanex, Aug 28, 2016
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  15. srgehl

    srgehl Crusader (437) Oct 22, 2014 New Jersey

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    MAGNETS!!!!
     
    #15 srgehl, Sep 4, 2016
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  16. TT99C5

    TT99C5 Initiate (0) Nov 23, 2016 Indiana

    I save each unique one I come across, been looking for a project to do with them. As of right now they are tacky taped (stuff used for sealing materials for vacuum forming) to a board I had laying around. My thought eventually will be to lay them out on a table top then clear epoxy them AS the table top. Eventually. I think.
     
    #16 TT99C5, Dec 5, 2016
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  17. AndyCapper

    AndyCapper Initiate (0) May 6, 2015 England

    I'm very pleased to see that your displaying a good selection of crown caps from the UK - cheers!
     
    #17 AndyCapper, Dec 13, 2016
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  18. Scott17Taylor

    Scott17Taylor Initiate (0) Oct 28, 2013 Iowa
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    I make magnets out of the originals and put all the repeats in jars on display.
     
    #18 Scott17Taylor, Dec 18, 2016
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  19. lightman1

    lightman1 Zealot (607) Oct 19, 2013 Arkansas
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    I save them in a medium flat rate USPS box on top of my beer fridge and occasionally send them to someone on BA that collects them. Before that they went in the trash.
     
    #19 lightman1, Dec 19, 2016
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  20. jpstodwftexas

    jpstodwftexas Initiate (0) Jan 1, 2017 Texas

    Like others glue Magnets to them
     
    #20 jpstodwftexas, Jan 1, 2017
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