The Humble Aluminum Drink Can: A lot of design and engineering went into the simple aluminum beverage can. Production of these cans is a rather complicated process.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

A lot of design and engineering went into the simple aluminum beverage can. Production of these cans is a rather complicated process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Very interesting. I will never look at a can of soda same way ever again

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

Ah yes...cold beverage on a hot day!!!!!! Good stuff Jerry. Aluminum is a great material - we used 5 axis and later 6 axis machines to "hog out" large round stock blanks to make the (one piece) outer case and inner structures and bulkheads of the Tomahawk Cruise Missiles here in Titusville Fl. in the 80's/90's....I wish I had that process on film. Some of our enemies have tasted that beverage first hand!!!!!

grandpaw

Very interesting and educational video. Enjoyed watching and learning, thanks! Grandpaw

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

jerryc41 wrote:

A lot of design and engineering went into the simple aluminum beverage can. Production of these cans is a rather complicated process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw

Yeah, they are also difficult to recycle, should have went back to the good old glass bottle!

DAVE FISHING Loc: Phoenix,Arizona

COOL

sr71 Loc: In Col. Juan Seguin Land

speters wrote:

Yeah, they are also difficult to recycle, should have went back to the good old glass bottle!

Difficult to recycle? Not!!!!!!

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

I wonder why you Americans spell aluminium aluminum ? Check wiki periodic table. Or is this a problem from the country that is the last bastion of imperial measurements ? Even your spell checker gets it wrong.
Or is it that Americans can't pronounce words correctly ? Phonetically (this is not quite right but it will do) it is "al-lu-min-ni-um" not "al-lu-mi-num". Or am I verging on fake news here ?

Now note :-) :-) :-)

Sendai5355 Loc: On the banks of the Pedernales River, Texas

chrissybabe wrote:

I wonder why you Americans spell aluminium aluminum ? Check wiki periodic table. Or is this a problem from the country that is the last bastion of imperial measurements ? Even your spell checker gets it wrong.
Or is it that Americans can't pronounce words correctly ? Phonetically (this is not quite right but it will do) it is "al-lu-min-ni-um" not "al-lu-mi-num". Or am I verging on fake news here ?

Now note :-) :-) :-)

Just think of all the ink and energy that is saved by not typing in that extra i or the u in words like colour (color). LOL

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Watch "How Its Made" on one of the NG or Science channels - 4 segments in the half hour on anything and everything.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

chrissybabe wrote:

I wonder why you Americans spell aluminium aluminum ? Check wiki periodic table. Or is this a problem from the country that is the last bastion of imperial measurements ? Even your spell checker gets it wrong.
Or is it that Americans can't pronounce words correctly ? Phonetically (this is not quite right but it will do) it is "al-lu-min-ni-um" not "al-lu-mi-num". Or am I verging on fake news here ?

Now note :-) :-) :-)

We pronounce (and spell) it that way to be economical and also to save time. Of course, you do the same thing with "elevator" vs "lift."

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

BboH wrote:

Watch "How Its Made" on one of the NG or Science channels - 4 segments in the half hour on anything and everything.

Yes, very interesting, and the U. S. commentator, Brooks Moore, has achieved a certain level of fame, with thousands of fans. A show like that can be used anywhere in the world, with a native language commentator used for the voice-over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_It%27s_Made

kvanhook Loc: Oriental, NC

Scottish people, being thrifty, take whiskey and make it whisky. Most American bourbon makers use Whiskey but Makers Mark uses Whisky. Thrifty Scots. My ancestors.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Great video. I was a mechanical designer before my recent retirement. One of our customers was AB (now INBEV) and we did work in both the can plant and the bottle making plants. One of the most trying and technical aspects is the printing of the can and it accounts for the most rejections. We installed a specialized cooling system for the ink application and although it's hard to imagine, it saved over a million dollars in ink consumption a year and made even a larger impact on can rejection reduction.

The bottle making plant makes over 3-million beer bottles a day for the St. Louis brewery and the can plant produces many times that a day which both operate 24/7. I can only assume that there must be a lot of thirsty AB beer drinkers around here..!

Steve_m Loc: Southern California

It is interesting to see, how the metric system is pushing out the old, non logical imperial system. Unfortunately, it will take generations to convert completely to metric.