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My Dad used to use the older, much heavier gauge aluminum cans for small parts drawers. He concocted some kind of rollers to flatten out the roll in the cans, and then a bending brake-homemade of course-to form interlocking seams and 90 degree bends to form the drawer sides and bottoms. Frugile, or what!?! FYI, steel cans have a wide variety of protective coatings very dependent on the original contents shipped in them-this could prove to be either a boon or a bust depending on how the can is to be "recycled". Large scale, very free-lanced modelers have used cans, sometimes sheethed in plastic wrappers or wood strips (coffee stirrers work great), to depict back-woods water or fuel tanks, and I've seen some very whimsical tank cars made from soft drink cans (I believe Walthers offered a really goofy kit using a soda can for a tank car model). Smaller cans such as tuna, cat food (same thing isn't it?), and more rectangular sardine cans actually make fairly convincing industrial tanks and work in various scales. In large scale, I've mounted sardine cans on a flat car (made of coffee stirrers for the deck ), attached a 'hatch' and used Ozark white metal hinges and other details to flesh it out into a mow piece of equipment. Best use is to recycle these cans and forget all the aforementioned suggestions!
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