At 03:34 PM 5/6/2003, george jannini wrote:
>    Thanks, that's good advice. I only put cans on the second shelf and
>the fridge floor.  I've had a loose can underneath the rear seat get a
>pinhole, but was in the right place at the right time and discarded it
>before we ended up with a big mess.

Just a small consequence of the vast industrial and scientific effort that
has been put into making aluminum drink cans containing no aluminum --
they're not there yet but already they've got it so that 3/4 of the
material is in the cap, and they keep shrinking the cap.  Took some serious
metallurgy to get an alloy that could be drawn so deeply without
imperfections -- one of the requirements is that the empty can has to
withstand 250-300 pounds of force during the capping process.  They have to
be just about perfect to do that.

david

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