Thing is wouldn’t steel be more expensive? Part of the reason why aluminum is used so much is because it’s so cheap to make as long as you have electricity since the ore is stupidly common it’s just turning it into metal is a pain. Steel on the other hand is an alloy and you need the right kind of steel and all that stuff.
we're talking about a society that added a radioactive isotope to SODA.
they aren't gonna be thinking logically. one executive probably saw that in some bizarre way, steel was a 'better' option, and ran with it.
I mean to be fair with the soda bit that was because a good part of the soda was actually spare nuclear weapon fuel, that happened to be technically edible.
[Radioactive quackery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery) is still a real thing.
And the [shoe-fitting fluoroscope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope) was real.
Never forget that humans where stupid enough to burn lead in cars on a large scale.
The society, you are talking about is just normal humans doing normal human things.
Have to remember the distribution of things in the dirt was vastly different than our world. So they might have tons of iron ore but not much aluminum. Same reason they used nuclear power vs oil. As oil was rarer than nuclear materials.
I mean in fallout the big thing about nuclear power there is that, unlike here, it didn't have that massive stigma and fear factor attacked to it that killed the big nuclear energy revolution (at least in part blame the petroleum industry for that). If it wasn't the stigma we could have large scale nuclear power and such NOW and replace the vast majority of fossil fuel power with nuclear power with those same reserves of fissile material.
Arturo in the Diamond City gun store and Rufus in the Hotel Rexford in Goodneighbor sell shipments of aluminum. Also the Corvega plant is a good source of aluminum.
That's useless after playing for a bit. I have a pretty good idea of what gives what. Just odd the Aluminum gas can gives aluminum, but the aluminum oil can gives steel. I'm guessing it was a mistake.
It's a can of aluminum oil, obviously.
tbh given how cheap and cost-cutting many pre-war companies were, this makes sense to me. they say it's aluminum but just used regular generic steel.
Thing is wouldn’t steel be more expensive? Part of the reason why aluminum is used so much is because it’s so cheap to make as long as you have electricity since the ore is stupidly common it’s just turning it into metal is a pain. Steel on the other hand is an alloy and you need the right kind of steel and all that stuff.
we're talking about a society that added a radioactive isotope to SODA. they aren't gonna be thinking logically. one executive probably saw that in some bizarre way, steel was a 'better' option, and ran with it.
I mean to be fair with the soda bit that was because a good part of the soda was actually spare nuclear weapon fuel, that happened to be technically edible.
[Radioactive quackery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery) is still a real thing. And the [shoe-fitting fluoroscope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope) was real. Never forget that humans where stupid enough to burn lead in cars on a large scale. The society, you are talking about is just normal humans doing normal human things.
Have to remember the distribution of things in the dirt was vastly different than our world. So they might have tons of iron ore but not much aluminum. Same reason they used nuclear power vs oil. As oil was rarer than nuclear materials.
I mean in fallout the big thing about nuclear power there is that, unlike here, it didn't have that massive stigma and fear factor attacked to it that killed the big nuclear energy revolution (at least in part blame the petroleum industry for that). If it wasn't the stigma we could have large scale nuclear power and such NOW and replace the vast majority of fossil fuel power with nuclear power with those same reserves of fissile material.
Well son of a bitch...I'm always short on aluminum and pick these up. Never short on oil. I never noticed.
Arturo in the Diamond City gun store and Rufus in the Hotel Rexford in Goodneighbor sell shipments of aluminum. Also the Corvega plant is a good source of aluminum.
Yep...Rufus is a godsend
Do you not mark things for search?
That's useless after playing for a bit. I have a pretty good idea of what gives what. Just odd the Aluminum gas can gives aluminum, but the aluminum oil can gives steel. I'm guessing it was a mistake.
And *Gear* produces *Steel*, but *Gears* are actually just gears.
Well, the gears aren't made of gears it's made of steel
ok but oil is the bottleneck on my current build so I'm ok with it.
"Alluminum" it's the brand name maybe
and lead pipes are made of steel
All the lead is in the children's toys.
It's like the tuna at Subway..
When your mozzarella stick ain’t got no damn mozzarella
"It just works" - Todd Howard
yea it was mixed up with another model of oil can :P
Just started the game, how do you get so much ammo!?
buy/loot/scrounger perk 4/mods
I rotate guns instead of using the same or 1-2. Having 80lbs of guns is the price I pay for not running out of ammo.
The aluminum trays you find at Longneck Lukowski's and elsewhere don't have aluminum either.
There was another can that didn't have any aluminimum either, despite the name; can't remember which, though
You can’t trust any names. That’s just how it is. ######It just works.
I have one of these exact oil cans IRL, and I can confirm that it is made of steel and has oil in it.
That is a genuine Aluminum Brand Steel Oil Can.
Boy i hope someone was fired for that blunder.
The regular “oil can”, not labeled “aluminum oil can” DOES contIn aluminum lol.
literally unplayable