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Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Chat - cap sizes of 1-liter soda bottles | | | |
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Mutation Buzzy Beetle Level: 30 Posts: 302/389 EXP: 154861 For next: 11008 Since: 09-21-04 Since last post: 22 days Last activity: 5 min. |
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For some reason, some types of soda use a 1-liter bottle that takes a cap of the same size as the ones for the 20-oz. and 2-liter size, but other types of soda use a 1-liter bottle that takes a cap of a different size...can anyone here explain why? | |||
Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 972/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I can't, the cap sizes are the same here, for... well, everything. What stuff has a different size? ;; And um.... don't you have something better to do than ponder the cap sizes of soda bottles? Or is it just a slow day today.. |
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BMF98567 BLACK HAS BUILT A SILLY DICE-MAZE! GO! Current list of BURNING FURY >8( recipients: - Yiffy Kitten (x2) - Xkeeper Level: 53 Posts: 531/1261 EXP: 1094149 For next: 62970 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blobaria Special Move: Rising Meatloaf Backhand Combo Since last post: 21 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Most liter bottles use the bigger cap size nowadays. My guess is they did it so you'd drink it faster and have to buy another one sooner... | |||
MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67 Posts: 1235/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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This thread is sooooooooooo interesting. | |||
Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 6631/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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But then, I really never drink directly from the one liter sodas. So that logic... well. Drinking through a straw make the drink lasting longer, so there is some logic to that anyway. Bigger the entry, faster it goes... |
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Uncle Elmo Hammer Brother Partly Sweet, Helpful, good at advice and a half decent writer. Also modest. Level: 49 Posts: 816/1062 EXP: 845899 For next: 37984 Since: 03-15-04 From: Prestatyn, Uk Since last post: 23 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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As my Dad works in a canning factory (He makes Cans for most of the drinks manufacturers in the entire country, inclusing Coke and Pepsi e.t.c). I'll answer this one The answer's really quite simple.... The Cap and the bottle are made in different places. It's also more cost effective to make 3,000,000 of one size cap than 1,500,000 of one and 1,500,00 of another, as changing sizes is mostly done using the same machine but changing the die, which means you have to power down, wait for it to cool, change the die, fire the machine up again and then start production. So now you know. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 2442/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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That doesn't explain why there would be different sizes in the first place. All the bottles I've ever seen used the same size. | |||
NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85 Posts: 1458/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by Uncle ElmoSo wait, why are 1 Liter caps bigger, then? Shouldn't they be the same size as 20 oz and 2 Liter caps, following that logic? |
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Jesper Busy, busy, busy. Level: 69 Posts: 1373/2390 EXP: 2856000 For next: 13743 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden. Since last post: 176 days Last activity: 79 days |
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We really only have one plastic cap size here in Sweden which holds true for half-liter bottles, 1.5-liter bottles and those weird 2-liter Coke bottles. If anyone within the next week claims that this forum is not interesting or wide enough, I'll point to some ROM hacking threads, and then to the ACS thread, and then to this thread, and then I'll laugh. Just so you know. |
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The Guru of Furu Ninji Level: 26 Posts: 114/240 EXP: 90642 For next: 11633 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cali Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 7 hours |
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I'm pretty sure it's so you drink it faster. You remember when they brought out the bigger openings on coke and pepsi cans. Now the openings are like 2 times as big as they were 10 years ago, and they used the same logic, bigger opening, faster drinking, more sodas consumed. They don't have hte large openings on 2 liter bottles, cause frankly, most people don't drink from the bottle. The 20 oz ones don't have it cause then the bottle would be very wierdly shaped. The 1 liter is the only one capable of having an opening like that so they use it on that one. | |||
HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 2461/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Yes, but you think they would do it anyway just to avoid the cost and hassle of making 2 sizes of lids. Come to think of it I have seen 1-litre and 600ml bottles with bigger openings, but they weren't pop. Generally fruit juice. Wonder if that's the idea behind Pepsi's Ipod giveaway? Supposedly people drink more pop when they're listening to loud music. |
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The Guru of Furu Ninji Level: 26 Posts: 115/240 EXP: 90642 For next: 11633 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cali Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 7 hours |
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And supposedly people buy more of something when they can get something free from buying the thing. | |||
MetalMan88 Ninji Level: 23 Posts: 31/232 EXP: 63815 For next: 3908 Since: 12-11-04 From: 1970s Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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I noticed the wider soda can openings. They used to be some neat new thing, but now everything save for Chai Tea in a can has it. And, well, since I drink lots of Dr. Pepper, it seems to result in me drinking more of it... heck... sometimes I'd drink an entire can subconsiously, then try to drink from it and be surprised that there's nothing there. Of course, I drink too much of the stuff. My computer area gets littered with those cans... since my laptop is always on the Dinner table, I'm able to eat all my meals at the table :p But anyway, why do shasta liter bottles have those huge caps on them? They're horrible... you try pouring those, you spill it everywhere! |
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Alastor the Stylish Hey! I made a cool game! It's called "I poisoned half the food, so if you eat you might die!" Have a taco. Level: 114 Posts: 3634/7620 EXP: 16258468 For next: 51099 Since: 03-15-04 From: Oregon, US Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I think you may have misread the post. It's about those larger caps on the liter bottles, nothing to do with cans. Anyway, I don't well see how you could spill stuff everywhere unless you had pretty poor manual dexterity... My mother has a pretty bad hand tremor and she still has no problem pouring stuff. |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85 Posts: 1474/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Well, some stuff sucks for pouring out of. Like this glass I have at school. But out of cans and bottles should be no problem. | |||
Mutation Buzzy Beetle Level: 30 Posts: 306/389 EXP: 154861 For next: 11008 Since: 09-21-04 Since last post: 22 days Last activity: 5 min. |
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Erm...another thing I've been wondering is: Why is the size of a 1-liter soda bottle's cap different between different brands of soda? | |||
HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 2505/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Probably because they're made in different factories and don't have a set standard.Originally posted by MetalMan88 That's not good. |
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windwaker Ball and Chain Trooper WHY ALL THE MAYONNAISE HATE Level: 61 Posts: 699/1797 EXP: 1860597 For next: 15999 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 6 days |
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I've always wondered about this :\. This kinda like why straw sizes can differ drastically sometimes. | |||
Jill In love with a dream.. Level: 36 Posts: 424/528 EXP: 296548 For next: 11562 Since: 03-15-04 From: Teh Sweden Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 14 hours |
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Bottle cap sizes are the same here.. although I've noticed that soda can "holes" can differ in size (especially on the evil German ones :O!) |
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