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Stacking metal lunchbox made from tuna cans

Mark Frauenfelder at 11:38 am Thu, Jun 28, 2012

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[Video Link] Here's an ingenious makeshift jig for forming tuna cans into a stacking metal lunchbox.

How-To: Stacking bins from tuna cans with cool improvised jig

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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The inside is still coated with BPA-laden plastic.
- webgrrl123
  
  You could make one out of cans of coconut milk. Those cans are not coated with BPA.
Paul Renault

Dang! I feel sooo first-world now… Y’see, I purchased a set of those, from Lee Valley Tools… Beau, bon, pas cher.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=43331&cat=1,43326,43330

At least, they’re BPA free.
http://rhinocrisy.org/ saurabh

In India this is known as a “tiffin”.
- Sudarshan Purohit
  
  A ‘Tiffin Box’ to be precise – tiffin is breakfast/mid-afternoon snacks, a phrase more common in south India. Kids tend to shorten the phrase and call the box itself ‘tiffin’, though.