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08-09-2008, 06:46 PM
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Aluminum Foil wrapped soda cans ring a bell
I saw a older usher at a baseball game the other night with a plastic soda bottle wrapped in aluminum foil. This brought back memories to when I was in elementary school. Whenever we went on a field trip, we always wrapped our soda/juice cans with aluminum foil. Looking back it seems like a silly/useless practice but we didn't question it back then. We just though it would keep the cans cooler.
Did anyone else do the same thing? Maybe there is some science behind the aluminum foil trick.
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08-10-2008, 12:35 AM
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Nope, never heard of it until just now. I can see trapped cold air inside the foil acting as an insulator, but I don't know how much of an effect it would really have.
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08-11-2008, 08:14 AM
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it makes a difference ... especially if you use an entire roll. 
(maybe not the best difference, but I don't have a supply of space shuttle tiles)
I remember that foil used to be cheap and a lot thicker.
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08-11-2008, 10:36 AM
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I didn't think about multiple layers. Multiple pockets of insulators would help keep it cold longer, and likely help keep the cold can from freezing your hand.
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08-11-2008, 11:17 AM
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Then there were those who thought putting aluminum foil under hubcaps
would make them invisible to radar.  Bet that didn't last too long!
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08-11-2008, 11:56 AM
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Then there were those who thought putting aluminum foil under hubcaps
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LMAO... Did people REALLY think that? I thought it was just a joke from an episode of CHiPs... not that I ever saw that episode, or any episode for that matter.
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08-11-2008, 11:47 AM
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And when your done,you can make tin foil hats.
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08-11-2008, 06:38 PM
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I guess my tin foil around the soda can must be a regional thing.
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08-11-2008, 10:27 PM
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I cached some of my 'stuff' in the hub cap one day, years ago when I passing through Texas. Can't be to careful you know. When I got across state I popped off the hubcap to retrieve it. Much to my dismay the contents had broken open and the 'stuff' went flying when I popped the hub cap off!
I was a good 2 or 3 hours recovering it, one small piece at a time,,, with tweezers. Dang, should have used some tin foil, shiny side out.  |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Excaliber
I cached some of my 'stuff' in the hub cap one day, years ago when I passing through Texas. Can't be to careful you know. When I got across state I popped off the hubcap to retrieve it. Much to my dismay the contents had broken open and the 'stuff' went flying when I popped the hub cap off!
I was a good 2 or 3 hours recovering it, one small piece at a time,,, with tweezers. Dang, should have used some tin foil, shiny side out. |
LMFAO
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08-12-2008, 06:15 AM
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Oy Ernie - did you get tagged by radar at any time while the stuff was in the hubcap? If not, you might be on to something...
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08-12-2008, 10:29 AM
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I bet it was to hide what he really had in the soda bottle.......Jack Daniels!!  |
08-12-2008, 02:46 PM
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Buzz, that was loooooooong before radar, 'canned heat' was number '1'......or close.
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08-15-2008, 02:55 PM
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I remember kids on field trips doing this. They would usually wrap a couple of layers of paper towels around the can and then cover it in foil.
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08-15-2008, 03:58 PM
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Go Joe! I knew someone out there must have heard of this tin foil trick!
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