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#224768 - 05/31/11 03:59 PM Re: Survival uses of 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: hikermor]
dweste Offline
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Originally Posted By: hikermor
... Had it been clear that brainstorming was requested ....


My apologies for lack of clarity. I have not seen this point addressed directly on this forum, do you think we should formally include the word "brainstorming" in initial posts? or perhaps an agreed emoticon?

Originally Posted By: hikermor
Suboptimal suggestions are inevitably inherent in the process.


Agreed.

Originally Posted By: hikermor
...I would have immediately suggested that one can cut off the mouth of a narrow mouth pop bottle for use as an emergency engagement ring.


Creative, but probably suboptimal absent almost overwhelming emergency.

Originally Posted By: hikermor
Inherent in the brainstorming process is the step where you have to get real, come down to earth, and evaluate all the responses.


Agreed. I think in the context of this forum that evaluation step, and its timing, is first up to each individual participant and then signalled to the group by the sliding of the thread off the first page due of new posts. It has been my experience here thet, along the way member's contribute by offering whatever real, down-to-earth observations they have.


Edited by dweste (05/31/11 04:01 PM)

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#224940 - 06/02/11 12:45 AM Re: Survival uses of 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dweste]
dweste Offline
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I have not tried this with bottle plastic, but most plastic can be honed to a cutting edge sufficient for cutting meat and plant material. The uses for cutting edges, straight and serrated, are of course numerous.

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#224989 - 06/02/11 09:57 AM Re: Survival uses of 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dweste]
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#224991 - 06/02/11 10:15 AM Re: Survival uses of 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: MostlyHarmless]
Frisket Offline
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Originally Posted By: MostlyHarmless
Originally Posted By: ironraven
When filled, rollers, especially for very heavy loads. A two liter filled with sand is nigh on impossible to crush unless it gets pierced by some thing sharp on the outside.


Why not filled with water (filled all the way up, no air gap)? Water is pretty much incompressible.



Because Bursting is different then crushing.
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#225019 - 06/02/11 04:01 PM Re: Survival uses of 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dweste]
Chisel Offline
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Not "survival" per se , but think about the possibilities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMAWztZ6TI

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#225020 - 06/02/11 04:09 PM Re: Survival uses of 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dweste]
dweste Offline
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Nice! Thanks, Chisel.

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#225169 - 06/04/11 04:16 AM Re: Survival uses of 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dweste]
ratbert42 Offline
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Loc: Florida
Cut a bottle down to get a flat sheet of plastic. That makes a nice flexible shim to open low-security doors. Plenty of other uses for the plastic - cutting board, knife sheath, etc. The bottom of a bottle makes a decent, but small, bowl.

With something like yeast and sugar to generate CO2, you can make mosquito traps out of the bottles. Not terribly effective, but interesting.

I've seen a diagram for an improvised water trap suction system for pneumothorax. Quite involved, but possible.

You could maybe use one (or several) as the pressure vessel for a hydraulic ram pump to lift water.

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#225172 - 06/04/11 04:58 AM Re: Survival uses of 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dweste]
Richlacal Offline
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I'll go for the most used Survival use for the 2-litre plastic bottles:Collect a Shipload of em'&Turn em' in for Cash!:)

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