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08-11-2022, 06:33 AM
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Interesting find...
So a few days ago I picked up a few flats of drinking water at the same place. I later noticed that some bottles were smaller that the other ones. Turns out one flat had smaller ones.
The interesting part is the labels...both indicate the same amounts, being 500 ml...all flats were the same price also...me a bit confused... 
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08-11-2022, 06:41 AM
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Its all about the shape of the bottle my buddy says he works for pepsi
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08-11-2022, 06:42 AM
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Did the smaller bottle have less head space to account for them both being 500 ml? And that ^, smaller one has straight sides while the bigger one doesn't.
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08-11-2022, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Trochu
Did the smaller bottle have less head space to account for them both being 500 ml? And that ^, smaller one has straight sides while the bigger one doesn't.
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Maybe you guys are right.
Guess I'm getting more paranoid getting up in years... 
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08-11-2022, 07:50 AM
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Bottles like these come off a production line where a preform is "blow molded" - so anything in the manufacturing process that deviates can change the actual (and final) height vs width of the bottle in the process (and there is, believe it or not) a pretty wide spec on dimensions.
Heat, pressure, mold temp, cycle time, the resin spec, etc... etc... - so many variables.
I'd say this is unusually different, obviously from two different production lots, and not typical. But at the end of the day, interesting.
Hard to tell - but it may, in fact, be two different production molds/designs there. Maybe you got the "mixed lot" when they switched over on the filling lines???
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08-11-2022, 08:03 AM
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That's counterfeit water.
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08-11-2022, 08:03 AM
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I wonder if there is a way we could find out if they both hold the same amount of water?
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08-11-2022, 08:17 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pathfinder76
I wonder if there is a way we could find out if they both hold the same amount of water?
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Measuring cup. Just call me Archimedes. 
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08-11-2022, 08:23 AM
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Measuring cup. Just call me Archimedes.
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Why make it complicated Archimedes. Fill one up, dump it into the other.
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08-11-2022, 09:45 AM
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Why make it complicated Archimedes. Fill one up, dump it into the other. |
Well tried that...same amount.
Guess I should have tried this first before boring you guys with this useless thread...
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08-11-2022, 09:48 AM
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Well tried that...same amount.
Guess I should have tried this first before boring you guys with this useless thread...
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Not me of course... 
But some like these threads, a break from some of the more serious stuff.
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08-11-2022, 12:32 PM
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Hard water takes up more volume than soft water. Did you buy one case of hard and one of soft?
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08-11-2022, 01:39 PM
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Quote:
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Why make it complicated Archimedes. Fill one up, dump it into the other. |
Brilliant!
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