Beer Can Newspaper Copier

Copying text from a newspaper using a beer can has probably been superseded by most mobile phones camera's ability to photograph text. Anyhow it may still be of interest.

The copying is done from treated tape applied to a beer can.

Beer Can to aluminum sheet (Step 1).

The aluminium sheet was spayed with a mixture of linseed oil & turps. Packing tape was stuck to the aluminium sheet, when required it was removed and applied to the newspaper. It was then removed and struck to a plain sheet of paper.

After the text from the newspaper is copied it is pasted to a blank piece of paper.

A bit like Ctrl C, Ctrl V on a computer. But with a beer can.

Packing tape was specially treated so it could copy text from a newspaper to a blank piece of paper.

The special treatment was a was a mixture of raw linseed oil and mineral turpentine. A mixture of 50/50 was made in a spray bottle.

• After making up the mixture of 50/50 linseed oil and turpentine it was sprayed on to the aluminium sheet from the beer cans.
• Packing tape was applied on top of it.
• Excess was squeezed out using a paper towel.

You may like to do this near an open window as turpentine isn't that nice to smell and may give you a headache.

After the beer cans have been treated and had the tape applied, leave them for a day or 2 until most of the turpentine smell has gone.

They are then ready to be used for copying.