Swing Away Wall Can Opener
by Harold Imports
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Our Price: $16.49 Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days Category: Kitchen See more product details |
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Swing Away Wall Can Opener
Customer Review: Well made in the USA
Summary: 4 Stars
Easy to use and saves energy. Solidly constructed. However I really had to search for a place to install it in my kitchen were I could use it without rapping my knuckles.Customer Review: American made, time tested, basic kitchen necessity
Summary: 4 Stars
What more can be said to the title? Who needs a electric opener in the first place. It's off the counter, on the wall and requires little maintenance.Customer Review: It Works!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is easy to install and works great! I wish it had the magnet for the can lids.Customer Review: Solid and Functional, but what have you done in the last 50 years?
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a little baffled by the high reviews for this product. My mom had something like this she bought 35 years ago and was the only can opener I used until I moved out to go to college. When I saw this I thought great, I can buy almost the same can opener!
However this misses a lot from my mom's. The big thing hers did was lock closed. I mounted this on the inside of the door of a cabinet and every single time I open the cabinet the stupid thing "swings a way" open. This is further irritating in that the three lock settings that it does have are only useful for mounting in different places. Once you have it mounted, you will then wish it didn't have the other two settings. The other problem with the mount is the bracket is just a little to flush to the wall so the opener isn't flat against the mounting surface. This is aesthetic but it always looks like it is not quite closed. It just seems like a little more thought could have been put into its design, just because it was designed in 1945 (patent 2,462,416) doesn't mean it can't be improved.
My only other complaints are it doesn't have a magnet for lids and it doesn't have a bottle opener (the one my mom had had both).
With the complaints out of the way, I will say it does what it is supposed to very well. Which is of course opening cans, even dented ones without issue. I just wish v2 was thought about sometime in 1946.
Customer Review: Disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
I had this item previously for 25 years until it finally wore itself out. I searched the web and found the Swing Away Wall Can Opener on Amazon. I was delighted that I could purchase the same product, except, it is nowhere near the quality of the original and wobbles and its cutting is hit and miss. I then discovered by old opener was MADE IN THE USA, and this new one is MADE IN CHINA. Be wary folks, the title of your purchase may be the same, but the production poor.
So disappointed in my purchase.