‘The Beer Compass©’ Cylinder With Base Can/Stubbie/Stubby/Bottle Cooler/Holder — Product Code 002 Bc
*Exclususive To Tropical Coolers*
- This is intended as a novelty product, not for use for anything but ‘rudimentary’ navigation (see the story on this product’s invention below).
- Fits 375 ml beer and soft drink cans, ‘stubbie/stubby’ beer and cider bottles, as well as many other can and bottle sizes world wide
- Standard 002 Cylinder with base 375 ml can/stubbie/stubby/bottle cooler, with the addition of a plastic flip out compass.
- 5 mm neoprene
- Base: (inside diameter) 60 mm, (-/+ 3% variability) ‘checker plate’ raw neoprene (helps the cooler grip to table tops). Fixed in place with a 2 part neoprene adhesive
- Wall height: 110 mm, (-/+ 3% variability) covered both sides with jersey (see colour chart links below).
- Seams: firstly glued together with 2 part neoprene adhesive, then zigzag stitching full length of the seam, then tacked top and bottom. Also available with black Mauser tape, sewn on with a running stitch (not required for extra strength, only for visual impact).
- Flip out plastic ‘glow in the dark’ compass sewn to the seam with 20 mm nylon webbing, with running/tacked stitching.
- Blank size (before forming into a cylinder) 210 x 110 mm (-/+ 3 % variability)
Printing Techniques Available
Single colour Screen Print
- Minimum print run 50.
- 38 Neoprene colors available (see colour chart) and these can be mixed within the order, in minimum multiples of 10.
- Ink colour can be mixed to closely match corporate/logo colors (see single colour screen print).
- Art size maximum 190 x 90 mm
- Plenty of room, for a ‘two sided/front and back’ print. I suggest two 90 x 90 mm art blocks, with a 10 mm gap between. 85 to 90 mm is the visible width of a cooler ‘face’ — so no need to rotate the cooler, to read a message/logo, if kept to this size.
Plastisol Transfer Print (from 2 to 6 colour print)
- Minimum print run 200.
- 38 Neoprene colors available (see colour chart) and these can be mixed within the order, in minimum multiples of 10
- Art size maximum 190 x 90 mm
- Ink colors can be mixed to closely match corporate/logo colors (see plastisol transfer print).
- Plenty of room, for a ‘two sided/front and back’ print. I suggest two 90 x 90 mm art blocks, with a 10 mm gap between. 85 to 90 mm is the visible width of a cooler ‘face’ — so no need to rotate the cooler, to read a message/logo, if kept to this size.
- Pricing is affected (slightly) by artwork area, and amount of colors printed, so please attach preliminary art to the quote page, or describe in the comments box. Art areas available are 100 x 90 mm, 190 x 45 mm, 145 x 65 mm, 190 x 55 mm, 190 x 70 mm, 100 x 140 mm, 190 x 90 mm.
Unlimited colour Dye Sublimation Print
- Minimum print run 24.
- You are not limited to picking your Neoprene colour from the colour chart. The background colour (which becomes the cooler colour) is printed at the same time as your unlimited colour art, over the top of white neoprene blanks (inside colour black). Once printed, none of the white is left showing.
- We are unable to mix the background colors, within an order — each would be a new print run (minimum 24).
- Art size maximum 190 x 90 mm (if supplying artwork, your background colour needs to be 220 x 120 mm, which fully covers the 210 x 110 mm blanks, with some ‘bleed off’).
- We can get close, but not exact corporate/logo colour matching (see dye sublimation print).
- Plenty of room, for a ‘two sided/front and back’ print. I suggest two 90 x 90 mm art blocks, with a 10 mm gap between. 85 to 90 mm is the visible width of a cooler ‘face’ — so no need to rotate the cooler to read a message or logo, if kept to this size.
The Beer Compass Story
Like many Australians (and people world wide) I enjoy the occasional alcoholic drink or three. It was the 28th of March, 2008, and I’d been to my favourite Hobart pub (The Republic Bar and Café) for the night, to see a performance by “The Gin Club” an Australian rock band. After a great night out, and many beers later, I decided to walk (with a tiny bit of staggering involved) home.
There I was, slogging up the hill, with a big grin on my face, thinking to myself ‘what a wonderful thing to have built into my brain, a beer compass’ (or something like that). To explain — ‘A Beer Compass’ is a great Australian saying, which describes the ability of an inebriated person to find their way home, even when most other functions have shut down (e.g. the ability to talk).
Then I had what’s known as a ‘Eureka moment’. It was a cold night, and after thrusting my hands into my coat pockets to keep them warm, I felt the familiar ‘squishyness’ of one of my stubby coolers (being in the stubby cooler business, I always take at least one with me on a night out).
I thought to myself — why not build a compass into a stubby cooler? That way, if your internal system was to ever fail, you’ve got back-up! What’s more, it’s built into something that no self respecting drinker should ever be without! We could print a basic map, (with local features noted) of your favourite pub, club, restaurant, party, or event with North to the top, and then the compass could actually be used to find your way there, or home afterwards!
The cat that I stopped to pitch my great idea to did not share my enthusiasm, but I was determined to take my idea into production. I hope you’ll find my beer compasses funnier and more useful than the cat would have.
www.thebeercompass.com is registered to me and I hold exclusive copyright and intellectual property rights over the concept of this product.