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#279607 - 02/19/16 04:59 AM Re: Uses for 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dougwalkabout]
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Some years ago I was staying in a trailer working on a dig. Late at night I threw an apple core into a wastebasket. In the morning I found six mice had fallen into the basket in pursuit of the apple tidbit. Since I had plenty of pancake batter and tea, I released them into the wild.
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#279632 - 02/21/16 02:49 AM Re: Uses for 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dweste]
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I use them for water storage, but found that after about a year a couple bottles in the stash were completely empty and were shriveled up a bit.

The carpet wasn't wet when I discovered it so it must have occurred some time ago.

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#279775 - 02/28/16 10:18 AM Re: Uses for 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: dweste]
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One I doubt anyone else will think of, supported by real life experience.

Carbide lamp.

Dump some carbide in the bottle, add a little water, poke a hole in the cap, screw it down, hold a lit match near the cap hole till the acetylene catches.

Caveat: do not add too much carbide and water at one time. If the acetylene production is too high, the bottle will pressurize and the lamp will become a flamethrower, or could detonate.
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#279776 - 02/28/16 02:19 PM Re: Uses for 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: benjammin]
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Fortunately, whenever I have had carbide in my greasy paws, I have also had a carbide lamp, much the better appliance for generating gas.

They are basically obsolete now, but I certainly appreciated the utility of a carbide lamp in caves and on many a night long search operation. After all, you have both heat, light, and flame for starting a fire, right in the palm of your hand. The lamp had a mechanism that regulated the flow of water into the carbide chamber, thus avoiding the over generation of acetylene, which will indeed produce a bomb, with often bad results.

I still have my lamps, but carbide is now a super hassle to obtain,so I light my way with electrics these days.
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#280220 - 04/04/16 04:31 PM Re: Uses for 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: hikermor]
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#280227 - 04/05/16 03:59 AM Re: Uses for 2 litre plastic bottles [Re: Alex]
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For years I used something similar (wide mouth PET mayonnaise jar with lid) to protect the TP in an outhouse. I simply attached the container to the wall with drywall screws. Highly successful in fending off deer mice and moisture, both of which will gleefully reduce "the necessary" to confetti.

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