What might you do with an Altoids tin?

I have the privilege of working with some bright people.  Seriously.  Creative people with lots of talent.

One of those guys is Jeff and when I found out what he did with a discarded tin used to package that ancient set of breath mints called Altoids, I had to put up a post and let you see it.

Here are some pics and what Jeff had to say about it:

Here’s the grill I made that I mentioned in my status report.  It’s made from an Altoids Sours tin, two fan grills from a broken computer power supply and a couple of nuts and bolts.  It uses a single charcoal briquette which sits on the bottom rack and the lid doubles as a plate to catch falling ashes.  I can’t take all the credit for the Altoids tin BBQ, this guy on instructables made the original however mine is a much better design IMO.

So far I’ve cooked a tiny steak and “burgers” cut from meatballs and it works great!  I’m going to try to cook a full size burger on it hopefully this weekend.

Pretty freakin' awesome if ya ask me.  More pics can be seen here, here, here and here.

Comments

[Charlie]

Creatively awesome! Personally, I'm working on a design for a hydrogen fuel cell built from an Altoids tin and Pepsi bottle caps. Don't tell anyone.

[BroKen]

This is extremely troubling. Altoid tins turning into charcoal grills! Can robots turning into semis and fighter jets be far behind?

[Locutisprime]

I use to make a lot of things from cigar boxes. ;-)

[Mommynator]

I forwarded this to my son, who makes all sorts of odd things out of other things, and who has a penchant for re-designing and retooling car parts so they work to his own mysterious specifications.