Link reblogged from Jeffgetem Personal Blog with 2 notes
How To Make a Beer Can Airplane →
Learning how to make a beer can airplane is one of the most fun and inexpensive things you can do. Beer can airplanes make great decorations for your home or office and you can even sell them to make some pretty decent money. If you are someone who likes to do crafts, has a couple of hours, and a few empty beer cans lying around your home you have all you need to make a beer can airplane.
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Happy 75th birthday to the beer can
Over the course of its use, the beer can has undergone myriad changes. Even though brewers first started considering the use of cans in the 1920s, those plans were interrupted by Prohibition and a couple of technical hurdles that had to be overcome. First of all, the can needed to withstand the 80- to 90-psi pressure of pasteurization without leaking or bursting. Perhaps more important, it was necessary to develop an effective liner that would prevent “metal turbidity,” in which the beer reacts with metal to create a bitter taste. Engineers reportedly tried resin, flour, gum and even sprayed asphalt as a liner.
