Mom had a cabinet-mount Swing-A-Way manual can opener for at least the first 18 years of my life. When I bought my house 45 years ago, I bought the same model (well, in the interim they added a magnet to catch the lid before it fell inside the can), which I did replace when the blade became overly dull; I can’t recall how many years it lasted but back then I was raising and showing pedigreed cats, opening at LEAST a dozen cans a day.
In my rapidly-increasing decrepitude, my shoulder arthritis is now bad enough that I can’t raise my right arm high enough to use the can opener, which is screwed to the lower part of the cabinet beside the kitchen sink. I’ve been using a badly-designed, tiny manual opener that I bought even before my house, to use at cat shows.
I’m looking for suggestions as to what brand to buy (online) or avoid, in a normal size manual can opener. So far, my hand and forearm strength are still pretty good. I prefer the type that removes just the lid and not the rim.