I want to make one of these snowflakes out of plastic 6-pack holders, in order to keep a running practical joke going. Any recommendations on where I might find a surplus of these?
The local pub.
ETA: A grocery store might have them, too.
From the guy filling the coke machine at our company. Find one of those guys and follow him to his next stop
And if anyone asks you what you are doing with them, give them the answer my Dad gave when he was collecting them from bars (he knew a lot of bartenders) so the Boy Scouts could make some kind of Christmas decoration. He said he was a purchaser for all of the burger restaurants. He said the restaurants would deep fat fry them and spice them and sell them as onion rings. The guy who asked said that he would never eat onion rings again.
Liquor stores, or maybe even convienence stores.
I used to work for a liquor store that would buy beer by the case, and then break them open and “6-pack” them. There was a huge spool of six-pack rings, probably 3-4 feet in diameter, and an employee known as “The Ringer.” For about 6 weeks, I was the Ringer, by far the most tedious job I’ve ever had.
I have no idea where they got the rings, but you don’t need that many anyway. I’d imagine most stores would have no problem giving a few away.
[hijack] Tedious? You have no idea.
I used to work at an explosive testing facility (stay with me here). When we did projectile testing, we used to have to make “break grids”. These are very fine copper wires that are strung in parallel about 1/8" apart. Depending on the size of the projectile, we had to manually string a square between 2 feet square and 4 feet square. The grid was then sandwiched between two pieces of tag board. Several break grids were set up at specified distances. The ends of the wires were hooked up to instrumentation that would record exactly when the grids circuit was broken (hence, break grid). We only had to do it maybe three or four times a year, but we made enough for the next three or four months.
Another quite tedious thing we had to do was after a fragmentation test. Several sheets of Celotex (a black, fiberous insulation that’s compressed and formed into 4’x8’ sheets, similar to plywood) would be set up next to a grenade, pipe bomb, or other explosive device. After the test, we would have to go through the layers, sheet by sheet, and plot the location of each fragment. Then we’d have to weigh and record the mass of each one.
Tedious jobs suck. 