Bursting Cans Of Drink

[coopers308]

Just a quick question for anyone with some experience in bursting cans of drink. Ive just had my first shot at it and im not sure whether i actually got it or not! The can only split but didnt explode like ive seen others do on the movies ive seen on the board. I shook it up and it was cold. Does it need to explode to count?

[CoC#3]

Steel cans (pepsi, 7up) don't blow up as nicely as aluminium cans do (coke, red bull, tango).

[lifesnotfair]

The redbull can is thinner and looks easier to explode than a can of coke! How hard is it to blow on up? :P

[apttdwler]

Steel cans (pepsi, 7up) don't blow up as nicely as aluminium cans do (coke, red bull, tango).

Where do you get steel cans? I've never see, but heard about them. Slim Fast use to make them, but they don't any more....

[JAMY]

Steel cans (pepsi, 7up) don't blow up as nicely as aluminium cans do (coke, red bull, tango).

Where do you get steel cans? I've never see, but heard about them. Slim Fast use to make them, but they don't any more....

I work in a can plant and we stopped making steel cans along time ago, there are some still going though, just aluminium is much cheaper!

They say if it splits cover the split immediately and give another big squeez, and it should blow!

I've got 48 cans of coke zero to play with, I might get some vids up, see how fast I can do 5 or something

[CoC#3]

The redbull can is thinner and looks easier to explode than a can of coke! How hard is it to blow on up? :P

Very easy. It's the first one i did. At the time my chest crushing strength was about a #4.

Pepsi still comes in steel cans here in the UK. Coke comes in aluminium cans and is a lot easier to blow up.

I would say if you can chest crush a strong HG500 you are able to burst most soft drinks cans.

As for a one hand burst, i haven't given it a serious whack but last time i tried i failed. This is harder than crushing a raw potato.

[Left Side]

I blew my first can when I could barely chest crush a #4. I will be the first to admit it was done with chest strength and no straight grip strength.

Vids in gallery if you're interested.

[mauvespoon]

i know what a chest crush is do you train for it or is it something that increases with grip strength

or is it trained by bending with chest crushes

[Left Side]

Yes you train it. Bending crushdowns will help of course.

If you want to train it specifically, chest crush hard grippers.

[mauvespoon]

1 more question

is there any functional or real world use of chest crush strength or is it more just for feats of strength like crushing and bending

thanks

[CoC#3]

Stone lifting! Chest crushing power is important for this.

[jarow]

Not that I can do this or have even ever tried...but a can of soda would be much more likely to explode when it's warm than when it's cold, because gases (in this case the carbon dioxide) are much less soluble in water at higher temperatures.

[easyWeight]

Not that I can do this or have even ever tried...but a can of soda would be much more likely to explode when it's warm than when it's cold, because gases (in this case the carbon dioxide) are much less soluble in water at higher temperatures.

I was just about to say the same thing until I made it to the bottom here jarow. I was wondering why having a cold can was mentioned. I wonder what temperature you could actually bring the can of soda up to before it just explodes on its own accord? Because something else to note about a gas (i.e CO2), is that its pressure also increases with increasing temperature Maybe keeping it cold is a way to increase the difficulty of this feat? So perhaps if you can't do it cold, you can train warmer cans? Just a thought.