On 5/10/2010 11:44 PM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
> Subject
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> Been using the same hand held Swing-A-Way for the last 30 years.
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> Probably has more years left than I have.
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> Just a guess but probably still less than $10.

25 years ago my shack-up got an electric Rival. It died after a few
years of light use and I replaced it with an under-cabinet electric
Presto AboveAll that also has a jar opener and bag cutter. The
bag-cutter popped off ages ago but the can opener and jar opener are
still working fine after more than 20 years. The thing is completely
fire and forget--put the can in, turn the knob once, and it opens the
can and holds it. Its only real weakness is that the lid-holder magnet
doesn't have enough power to reliably hold the lid. I keep saying I'm
going to replace the magnet with a stronger one but somehow never get
annoyed enough with it to actually do it.

Note that it's the kind with a sloped blade, not the kind with a wheel.
Seems to be long out of production.