Someone explain this please

Cleaning up yesterday I was rearanging a shelf that has some trinkets on it.
2 of these items are Coca Cola cans.
Both with the Toronto Maple Leafs plastered on the can.
One white, one blue.

These cans are sealed, never been opened and are approx 8 years old acording to my g/f.

BOTH cans are almost empty, maybe a 1/4 inch of fluid left.
No eveidence of leakage or holes, cans still sealed and cannot be crushed without heavy force, meaning there are no airholes.

What gives?

 

Maybe they're full of air like the Leafs are! roflmao

So you crushed a collectors item it seems. IDK It's not a normal aluminium can where one can crush it using two fingers.

 

lol Walked into that one.
I only support them because they are the most local and my missus supports them, but whenever she watches a game I start singing Billy Talent's "Fallen Leafs" :-D

 

I added a line to my above post that you didn't see.

 

Oh, no no, I didn't crush them but you can feel if you squeeze gently that there is no give. Thats more what I meant lol
And yes they are Aluminum.

 

What can I say then? Just don't squeeze those cans too hard then eh?:-D Wifey might object.:innocent

 

Well you could say "Oh the liquid is gone because the atmosphere around it is probably at a higher altitude dude the the position of it on the shelf, causing an increased pressure inside the can which slowly crushed the liquid into nothingness"

And I'd probably believe you lol

 

Oh the liquid is gone because the atmosphere around it is probably at a higher altitude dude the the position of it on the shelf, causing an increased pressure inside the can which slowly crushed the liquid into nothingness

 

Really? I believe you lol

 

came up with it all by myself

rolleyes :-D

 

how do you know there is only about a 1/4 inch of fluid left?

 

Well ...

A: I can swill it around and feel roughly how much is in there.
B: I can tap the side of the can with a pencil until the noise changes.
C: I can lightly run my finger over the side of the can and feel when the temperature changes.

 

Two people started to open the cans at the same time only managing to just break the seal because both cans had been shook up so began to leak everywhere,both cans where put down on the shelf so the mess on the floor could be cleaned up and were forgotten about then the coke syrup forced through the small gap set over the years sealing the cans.

Eight years ago you bought two cans that were part filled thought that's weird and put them on the shelf to show other people.

 

Hope I read it right. And your saying you got a can of soda. Not open and no holes that you see or hear. Well I forgot what "the word" is or it but I know what you mean. It kinda like when you get 24 pack of soda and the theres a can that sticky but yet the other one on top no holes and only half full.

 

Rikky has a good theory. Has to have been a hole in the can, or the cans were not fully filled at the factory.

If it were wine, or whiskey, I would just consider it the angel's share. :-D

 

The syrup made have solidified on the sides of the can where there is only some liquid on the bottom. Which could explain for the feeling of pressure.

 

Thats actually not bad, not sure I'm buying it though, why would 2 people semi open 2 cans of coke?........just to baffle me? lmao

 

1.Because they were thristy

2.They semi opened them because as I said they began to squirt everywhere so didn't fully open them.

It doesn't have to be two people,it was most probably you :-D You opened one warm can of two you had dropped it squirted in your eye you said "doh!" cleaned the mess up then proceeded to open the second warm and shaken can,it squirted in your eyes and again made a mess you said "Doh!"

:-D Help me out here...

 

lmao the scary thing is, thats probably the most likely explanation. It's highly likely I would do something like this and forget, BUT....... I was in a different country 8 years ago.

On closer inspection, one of the cans has what COULD be described as cola residue, but it could also be described as rust.
Having said that they are aluminum cans so it's not rust, so maybe 1 leaked out and the fluid returned to it's home planet of Shnurdnit and the other got lonely so extinguished it's own life by concocting a method of spontaneous cola combustion resulting in vaporisation of the liquid to such a degree it could pass through a non porous substance.

 

I use to bottle Dasani water for Coca-Cola. I don't know how canning works, but it has to be similar enough. I ran the actual bottling machine. My line bottled nearly 350,000 bottles in a 12 hour shift. It was my job to watch for "low-fills" which was easy, seeing as how the bottles where clear plastic..

We shut the line down from time to time, and still hit 350,000 bottles, but assuming the line ran all day, every day for 12 hours, that's still 8.1 something bottles a second..

As long as the speed is similar for canning drinks, even if a machine had a problem filling cans for a minute, you're still talking about at least 486 cans of coke..

Once the bottles left my machine, they got labeled in a single file line, then spread out into an ocean of conveyor belts.. those 486 cans may stick close together, but they could also end up in 486 different cases... It makes sense to me, that you just got 2 low fills. How it took 8 years to notice the weight difference, I don't know. LOL

 

Thats all well and good but even if that is the answer, what are the chances of 2 "special" cans being 1/4 filled ending up together on the same shelf?

Info Update: The missus reckons that her aunt saw them in a store and bought them for her knowing how she's a leafs fan.

Thats like the whole theory of:

If a fly is flying around minding it's own business and suddenly realizes that it's heading straight into a big fly electrocution plate thingamy and in total fear and panic has a massive heart attack the precise moment it hits the plate and the electric shock that follows results in the fly's heart being restarted.........now what are the chances of that eh?

 

Special cans are bottled separate from anything else. If someone ordered 700,000 bottles of maple leaf coke, they'd run it on one line, for 24 hours. There were times when we caught problems that had been running for 5-10 minutes.. that we knew of. Wait until you buy a bottle of your favorite beverage that snuck through the line between cap torque tests, and you need 3 vise grips and a helicopter to get it open, haha.

Being that each of our 4 lines could fill a tractor trailer with cases of water in 15 minutes, it's a good chance that those two cans where sitting next to whole shelves of special, half full cans of coke.. If that's why it happened.

I don't mean to argue, just supporting my idea. We're talking about a very, very fast process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGh7973IdU

 

Maybe not so remote, since flies have nine primitive hearts.:-D

For those that need to know.

 

Hmmm now that you put it like that it makes sense, I've run production machines. Out on the reserve lol so I know what you're talking about, hundreds of products can float through without notice in just a couple of minutes.

But I'm pretty sure they WERE full at one point lol