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Remember when 2 liters had those big plastic caps on the bottom?

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Yea I remember taking the cap off and finding the round end.

This is super, super vague. I was really, really little.

I don't think I ever saw them in the store since I never went with my parents, just in the house as a wee-little kiddins. I must've been 3 or 4 the last time they had those.
 
Rubycon said:
If you pulled them off you were greeted with a nice round end so it would not stand up. Those bottles were strong and made great water rockets. :biggrin:

The new ones will weep if an anole pisses on them.
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Hell yea, they made awesome 4th of july dry ice bombs.
 
Gillbot said:
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ah yes, faygo orange pop. when the short lived Super America gas station/convenience store opened in my town, they sold that shit for 39 cents for a 2 liter. good times.
 
phucheneh said:
It seems like they've gotten thinner, for sure, but I don't remember this. Were they still aluminum?

Also, random as hell question: has anyone actually ever made cans out of tin?

Canned food still comes in what are commonly called 'tin cans,' and I seem to remember aluminum cans being called the same as a kid (then we got proper for some reason).
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Tin cans were originally steel with tin coatings internally, hence where they got their name. The tin coating was used to prevent rust/contamination of the food/whatever by exposure to naked steel.

Don't think tin as a coating is used so much any longer as plastic coatings have pretty much taken over. And while true aluminum took over from steel as the can material, they were and still are internally coated....tin or plastic coatings. Aluminum can and does react with foods, esp. acidic foods.
 
Meghan54 said:
Tin cans were originally steel with tin coatings internally, hence where they got their name. The tin coating was used to prevent rust/contamination of the food/whatever by exposure to naked steel.

Don't think tin as a coating is used so much any longer as plastic coatings have pretty much taken over. And while true aluminum took over from steel as the can material, they were and still are internally coated....tin or plastic coatings. Aluminum can and does react with foods, esp. acidic foods.
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Aluminum cans were thicker on first release. They also seemed less shiny, and had thicker paint.
 
lxskllr said:
Aluminum cans were thicker on first release. They also seemed less shiny, and had thicker paint.
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Ya know in my line of work, i have dug up a lot of those cans and the old steel type ones too, they are tough and hold up pretty well for being buried underground for so long. I have found a lot of crazy looking glass bottles too...like this one soda bottle that had a woman with crab hands on it, weird, can't remember what soda company it was.
I also see a lot of the old Dr. Pepper bottles with the 10 and 2 clock on the glass.
 
Triumph said:
ah yes, faygo orange pop. when the short lived Super America gas station/convenience store opened in my town, they sold that shit for 39 cents for a 2 liter. good times.
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I still buy Faygo. Moon Mist, Root Beer and Blue Raspberry are good.
 
HeXen said:
Ya know in my line of work, i have dug up a lot of those cans and the old steel type ones too, they are tough and hold up pretty well for being buried underground for so long. I have found a lot of crazy looking glass bottles too...like this one soda bottle that had a woman with crab hands on it, weird, can't remember what soda company it was.
I also see a lot of the old Dr. Pepper bottles with the 10 and 2 clock on the glass.
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