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I love living in a wasteful society. For almost $2 I get a energy drink, and a sturdy little aluminum bottle.

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There HAS to be a good use for these! :wink:
 
Battery can for an old motorbike style light, or use it for a body for the light itself a-la flashlight mouted to the h-bars?
 
keep refilling it with water so you can cut down on the number of plastic bottled waters you use?
 
I have an idea! But I couldn't find the other pieces I needed today. So you will have to wait.
 
please keep me posted on what you do with this can because there is a guy at work that drinks two of those exact drinks daily!!! i cant wait to see what you do with this so maybe i can do it as well!!

Easy E
 
Make a disposable bottle....out of aluminum???? There's just something seriously wrong about that. As a consumerist society, maybe we have gone too far.

If you know a guy who drinks two of them a day, follow him around and before he dies of liver failure, and get enough bottles to build yourself an entire aluminum frame. At his rate it would only take a week.
 
Ok, I will tease ya.

See that tank? I want something similar. I'm going to cut the bottles up, brush the aluminum and add either copper or brass couplers to make them into a tank! Maybe I'm nuts....but. My friend is going to machine something up for me I hope.

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dang! i was hopin you were gonna do something with a light! thats what i wanna do with my bottles. anybody got any advice on how to do that? like out of a flashlight or somethin, or anything else. i suck at electrical stuff.

Easy E
 
Light's wouldn't be bad either.

Maybe check out instructables.com I know there are a lot of lights kits on there.
 
Here's a commpletely different idea:

Find a length of screendoor spring (or similar). Find a way to fix the spring from the inside bottom of the can to the opening. Drill a hole (.5" to .75") in the side of the can. Clip a flexible plastic strip onto the opening of the drilled hole.

Fix it to the bike somehow -- parallel to the back wheel, in a way that the spokes pluck the plastic strip while you ride...

Wow! I'm awful at writing instructions :oops:
Basically the end result should be an amplified version of the old card-in-the-spokes trick with reverb! Plus, the can looks kind of like a little cherrybomb exaust.

This is an idea I've been kicking around for a while. I figure the longer the vessel (can) the better the sound will be.
 
Strip or paint it, and make it a small overflow bottle for a hot rod! Just drill a hole in the lid for the hose to go through.
 
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