I work for a company that used to produce these. It's interesting to
watch... A can starts off as a slug of aluminium about the size of a dollar
coin but twice as thick... Several punching and drawing over a die processes
later it looks almost like a can... The end is then trimmed and then necked
down before having the end 'seamed on'... All a mechanical process. Sounds
simple enough but don't forget, this all happens at around 1,200 cans per
minute, that's 20 per second guys, all day, all night.
Nigel ( down in NZ where the nights are getting cooler but the thought of
maybe getting back to the great white dyno in August is keeping me warm.)
> I was just looking at one of my Diet Coke cans... I'm tempted to take it
down
> to the shop and do some measuring... Just never really considered the
work it
> took to make one of these. Realize that a soda can is made from a single
> sheet of aluminum and then capped after it's filled?
>
> Someone out there has the answer to how this was done...
>
> Keith ( see it's easy to boggle a feeble mind )
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