Slap Test?

[el caminero]

There's a time frame on how long it takes for drinking salt water to kill you. Can't remember the numbers, but it ain't that long.

Know little of Army canned stuff, many here would, hint. But found a can of pound cake in the back of a Guard truck & my VN vet bud about tore my arm of grabbing it. Told me stories of it, how it was the most valuable c-rat of all & he loved it. I said, well here man, but would you give me a peice of it. Hev did, but dang it was a small one. It was good.

Verry agree on the pound cake.

 

[xTopGun]

The Slap Test
You hold the bottom of the can loosely in one hand and slap the top opening with your palm.
If the slap produces a solid "knocking" sound, the can is supposedly airtight and the water is still pure. If it sounds hollow or sloshy, the seal may have been compromised.

uhmmm it's water, if the seal is compromised, I suspect it would leak out.....

 

[peachhead]

I can't believe the length of this thread about absolutely nothing that makes sense.
Except Gilligan's Island and pound cake.

 

[el caminero]

uhmmm it's water, if the seal is compromised, I suspect it would leak out.....

If seal is compromised and it leaks under pressure, (say, thermal expansion) then cools enough to suck in something from outside, and you werent there to notice it, hiw can you know it dident happen?

 

[crstrode]

Speaking civilian english here will help most of us understand WTH you are talking about.
Continuing to speak in your jargon will have you talking to yourself I'm afraid. Your choice.

One of the primary purposes of jargon is to obfuscate the speaker's ignorance of the topic at hand.

 

[Skeet 028]

A slap test is just hitting the container...if it has water you will know...if not it will do you no good except for a possible container to catch rainwater...see life boat/rafts..In case of having to be in either...you will not care how it tastes...father...WWII navy ship sinking survivor. We did the same on our fire truck water jugs in summer. Changed most every day anyway

 

[protoolman]

I went looking for that good dehydrated water and found this:

 

[protoolman]

I actually thought a SLAP test was when you slap the wife on the backside to see what reaction you get: 1. She says" I like that, do it again! OR " stop that! I have a headache!", But seriously that old canned govt water was pulled years ago. Current life raft kits would have foil bagged water or this type of product:

 

[ArizonaTea123]

Slap.test: You read the label and see that the water was canned by the lowest government bidder in 1973.
You then slap yourself and decide if you really want to drink it.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

The pound cake was really good but you better have some water to wash it down or you could choke to death trying to eat it.

 

[Chief]

So to sum up, OP asked a question he already knew the answer to. He then proceeds to treat the answer to said question like a state secret, worried that someone accuse him of being a super soldier or some such. Then he beats around the bush until finally revealing he numerous fields of training , alludes to living in another world, thus revealing to everyone that he is a super soldier or some such, only to find out at the end that life rafts don’t carry canned water. That about does it, no?

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Guess it's my bad for assuming that folks took it as common knowledge. In the World I lived in, in the past, everyone had such training and things of that nature were taken for granted. Perhaps it is I that shouldn't assume that everyone comprehends that of which I speak so lightly of?

And that's all I was asking for. Thank you ever so much.

 

[M118LR]

Just imagine if I asked about the black mold that grows near every whiskey still? How many folks would take that for granted?

 

[Paul B]

Jimbo said, "Also, lead was used in the can making process up until 1995. So I would not eat anything that was acid based in a can older than that."

A short story for you from my Air Force days. I was on a three month TDY (temperary duty) tour at Indian Springs AFB on the gunnery range. Me and a partner in crime did the weather and special balloon runs for the pilot. Sometimes we aided in special projects. One such project was a way to supply cut off units with food and other necessities. The project we participated in was they would load up old wing tanks, fit them with some kind of drag chute and hope for the best. Well the chutes either didn't have nenough drag or just plain came off during the drop but those tanks hit hard and every one burst open on impact. Scattered across the Nevada desert floor were cans of C rations candy, packets of TP and I forget what else there might have been. Chesterfield cigarets had that ugly brown pack they once used and Lucky Strikes had the old green pack with the big red ball in the middle. I should have grabbed all I could of those as collectors today would probably have paid good money for them. I think luckies dropped the green pack sometime around 1942 or so as I remember an ad in a magazine that said, "Lucky Strike green goes to war to be used as die for uniforms."

Howeer, the subject is this; is food in old cans edible. I'd say most likely yes.My partner and I grabbed up all the undented cans we could find and taste tested more than a few. A lot of pork and beans. My favorite was marked pork steak and it was good. Date on the can was IIRC 1939. The canned beef like you find at COSTCO was a close second with both of us.

Most cans were dated 1938 to 1942 IIRC and as long as the can was not dented the food inside was OK. You have to remember that these cans were used in an experiment and destined to be destroyed anyway.

We considered them a blessing. If we had to do balloon/wind runs at night they were supposed to bring us chow but many times someone did tell them to do it. We loved those C-rats and they did come in handy. Water was no problem. We always had a few jerry cans with water.
PJ

 

[M118LR]

Either in training, or in a real situation. If your thirsty you usually drink, if your hungry you usually eat. If you don't you ain't thirsty or hungry. JMHO YMMV.

 

[M118LR]

So to sum up, OP asked a question he already knew the answer to. He then proceeds to treat the answer to said question like a state secret, worried that someone accuse him of being a super soldier or some such. Then he beats around the bush until finally revealing he numerous fields of training , alludes to living in another world, thus revealing to everyone that he is a super soldier or some such, only to find out at the end that life rafts don’t carry canned water. That about does it, no?

Chief, I assume you served? Did you complete the training courses I mentioned? Guess the obvious answer is NO. Prior to me mentioning the slap Test on canned water did you have a clue? Probably not. Did you learn anything or are you so well versed that you know everything?

Edit
Since you know all, how do you impart knowledge? Crickets? So to sum it up, just learn and quit attempting to be a big man that gets silenced. JMHO YMMV.

 

[Chief]

Yes I served and no I did not have the opportunity nor the need to attend the training courses you mentioned.
I neither know nor care about you or your
vacuous attempts at passing on your supposed, prodigious knowledge.

 

[M118LR]

Yet you still will pass on any knowledge that you have to others? It's a fault, that isn't to be corrected. JMHO YMMV.

 

[TScott]

The pound cake was really good but you better have some water to wash it down or you could choke to death trying to eat it.

We used to save the canned peaches till we either got or could trade for some pound cake. Put the peaches on the pound cake then you had something good.

 

[Yaworski]

What do you think of the effect of boron on nuclear reactions? Hmmmm? Oh, you're not a nuke? I forget that not everyone has worked in nuclear engineering. You know that if you worked in NUCLEAR ENGINEERING and had been TRAINED in reactor design you'd know all about boron.

See, anyone can bring up obscure specialized information.

 

[vito]

As a new 2nd Lieutenant at my first assignment, I was given numerous “extra duties”. One of these was to inventory and inspect the emergency supplies of water and some type of protein crackers that were stored in the “fall out” designated areas. I later found out that for years or maybe decades my predecessor inspectors would count the stored barrels and submit their report. But I took the job seriously and actually had my enlisted assistants open a barrel of each to “inspect” the contents.

Much to my surprise I found that the plastic bag holding the water in the barrel had deteriorated and the rust formed had ruined the water. So I ordered my crew to spill out this useless water. The same with the ruined “crackers”. We must have dumped several dozen barrels of each, which i duly reported. When I submitted the report I was chewed by by the Colonel in charge of logistics because now we were obligated to purchase replacement barrels and nothing had been budgeted for this big expense. Turns out I was the first to actually do the job since those barrels were first stored in the early ‘50’s or possibly late ‘40’s. This was in 1966.

 

[oldmarine69]

I have drank canned water. But, being a dumb jarhead, I didn't know I was supposed to smack it first.

 

[oldmarine69]

As a new 2nd Lieutenant at my first assignment, I was given numerous “extra duties”. One of these was to inventory and inspect the emergency supplies of water and some type of protein crackers that were stored in the “fall out” designated areas. I later found out that for years or maybe decades my predecessor inspectors would count the stored barrels and submit their report. But I took the job seriously and actually had my enlisted assistants open a barrel of each to “inspect” the contents.

Much to my surprise I found that the plastic bag holding the water in the barrel had deteriorated and the rust formed had ruined the water. So I ordered my crew to spill out this useless water. The same with the ruined “crackers”. We must have dumped several dozen barrels of each, which i duly reported. When I submitted the report I was chewed by by the Colonel in charge of logistics because now we were obligated to purchase replacement barrels and nothing had been budgeted for this big expense. Turns out I was the first to actually do the job since those barrels were first stored in the early ‘50’s or possibly late ‘40’s. This was in 1966.

Leave it to a "butter-bar"!! Just having some fun Lt. Welcome home!!! Sir!

 

[M118LR]

What do you think of the effect of boron on nuclear reactions? Hmmmm? Oh, you're not a nuke? I forget that not everyone has worked in nuclear engineering. You know that if you worked in NUCLEAR ENGINEERING and had been TRAINED in reactor design you'd know all about boron.

See, anyone can bring up obscure specialized information.

So perhaps we should discuss beryllium tools? Or team concepts for Nuclear Weapon loading? But I'm thinking that more folks may have more need of discerning if the water they're going to drink is still potable? How do you determine if the water in a plastic bottle isn't potable?

 

[Conman]

Anyone ever drank canned government water? What's a Slap Test?

GOOGLE before wasting time asking others to do your work for you! The answer is out there!

 

[Yaworski]

GOOGLE before wasting time asking others to do your work for you! The answer is out there!

He knows. It's all a desperate attempt to impress people with his alleged naval background. He alludes to special knowledge and training and alludes to special missions. Why? That's a question for the shrinks.

 

[Yaworski]

So perhaps we should discuss beryllium tools?

More misdirection. However, all I'm doing is feeding your ego so I'm putting you on ignore. Ta!

 

[M118LR]

GOOGLE before wasting time asking others to do your work for you! The answer is out there!

I have to quote this. I don't think anyone could believe such a clueless response if I don't.

 

[M118LR]

More misdirection. However, all I'm doing is feeding your ego so I'm putting you on ignore. Ta!

Again?
How many times are you going to post that toothless threat?

 

[Danjet500]

M118LR said:

So perhaps we should discuss beryllium tools?

What do you want to know about beryllium? I worked in a Be producing facility for 40 years but I don't go around bragging about it.