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stonefiend
Oct 5, 2003, 4:21 AM
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bought a nalgene up in squamish, but had to piss in it while crankin 80 down the highway this afternoon.
it's now gettin bleached out .
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andy_lemon
Oct 5, 2003, 5:27 AM
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1) I dropped a full Nalgene bottle off a 5 story parking garage to see if it would break. It didn't. I did this test because I had heard a story once and needed to prove it true.
2) I dropped my empty Nalgene into the Ohio River while boating... it floated a few football fields away before I got to retrieve it. More of an adventure for my Nalgene then a test.
3) While camping at the top of a cliff at our local crag, I got a little too close to the edge while eating breakfast. My Nalgene bottle fell over, then proceeded to roll over the edge and decked 70ft below. I rapped down and picked it up, not broken!
4) The end for my nalgene bottle was a drunk night around a campfire back at camp. I sat my Nalgene bottle a little too close to the campfire. Next moring the lid was melted as well as the lip of the bottle. There was a pretty big hole in the side. This nalgene bottle is now a rain gauge slash candle holder.
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tyify
Oct 7, 2003, 12:18 AM
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i'm bored...aka bump...
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xcire
Oct 7, 2003, 12:23 AM
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The volvo of waterbottles
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climbhigh2005
Oct 7, 2003, 1:08 AM
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Today is pschology we had to make our own commercials on a certain a certain product, and we did ours on a nalgene! It was super cool!! I love my nalgene! I should be in business with the nalgene company!! I've proabably goten about 10-15 people to buy one! =)
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arrettinator
Oct 7, 2003, 3:13 PM
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Mine is almost like new.
It's about 3 years old now.
I like to keep my stuff in good shape.
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pinnaclechick
Oct 7, 2003, 3:26 PM
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Mine haven't been abused too bad because I'd keep losing them. Buy one, lose it, buy another, find the first one, lose them both, buy another, etc etc.
They have some scratches but are holding up pretty well.
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cyclonebelayer
Oct 7, 2003, 3:36 PM
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In reply to: Mine was broken once, though I don't know how... I left it in one of those outside mesh pockets on my pack and checked it on an airline. Air France managed to crack my Nalgene. I have no idea how, and nothing inside the pack was damaged...
Question: if the caps are usually the first thing to break, wouldn't it be safe to assume that the air pressure would pop the top? It doesn't make sense to me that the actual bottle material which is stronger and thicker then the cap would crack and break first.
Any structural engineers out there to explain this one?
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cyclonebelayer
Oct 7, 2003, 3:48 PM
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In reply to: Breaking them is easy. Give them to Marines. We used them becuase hey were bigger than our canteens and supposedly indestructible. My A$$ they're indestructible. :lol: Twice I've purposely tried to break them. First time I filled it with dry ice then flung it off the 3rd floor of my barracks after a few mintues. Bam. pieces. Second time was with a "canteen bomb". You take the chemical heater from an MRE and drop it into a bottle (poweraid bottles work best) with an inch or two of water in the bottom. Throw it FAST so as not to blow yourself up. That time the cap came off, but took the neck with it. the rest of the bottle stayed mostly intact.
Wow, marines are tough. Drinking dry ice and MRE chemical heaters... good thing they are on our side... So how do they taste?
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tyify
Oct 8, 2003, 4:59 AM
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Lid breaks when it's dropped...not pressure all over bottle..
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andypro
Oct 8, 2003, 5:54 AM
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In reply to: Wow, marines are tough. Drinking dry ice and MRE chemical heaters... good thing they are on our side... So how do they taste?
Uhm...drinking? If I could tell you how they'd taste, I woudln't be posting here in the first place :lol:
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wiredclimber
Oct 8, 2003, 5:51 PM
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i threw mine off a 3 story building in Korea while taking pictures. landed on a car and rolled to the ground. all good.
different bottle rolled out of CH-53 helo over the Phillippennes. Never to be heard from again.
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kimmyt
Oct 8, 2003, 6:01 PM
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How was the car??
K.
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overlord
Oct 8, 2003, 6:12 PM
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In reply to: Mine was broken once, though I don't know how... I left it in one of those outside mesh pockets on my pack and checked it on an airline. Air France managed to crack my Nalgene. I have no idea how, and nothing inside the pack was damaged...
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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wiredclimber
Oct 12, 2003, 10:10 PM
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In reply to: How was the car?? K.
it left a pretty decent dent in the hood. we didnt wait around to meet the owner though.
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lifeguard4
Oct 18, 2003, 6:31 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: How was the car?? K. it left a pretty decent dent in the hood. we didnt wait around to meet the owner though.
LOL I don't think that anyone would have hung around. Jus thope if doesn't happen to my car.
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sedodd
Oct 18, 2003, 6:58 PM
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a friend and i lugged a fifty pound rock up the backside of a thirty foot boulder and dropped it on one. completely errupted the bottom and cap.
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tyify
Oct 20, 2003, 3:16 AM
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How full was the one that landed on the car?
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sixter
Oct 20, 2003, 5:07 AM
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In reply to: bought a nalgene up in squamish, but had to piss in it while crankin 80 down the highway this afternoon. it's now gettin bleached out .
I have several quart bottles for drinking, and smaller size (so I don't mix them) for a pee bottle. The fact that they don't leak is great for that purpose. There are times it is better to stay in a tent, than to venture outside to freeze the boys off. :shock: :oops:
In reply to: Why do people use nalgene bottles? For $1 I get a lighter bottle already filled with spring water at any conveniece store. And I can reuse it! And I think either is about as tough as the other.
Several reasons I prefer my Nalgene wide mouth bottles over convenience store water bottles. (and I don't care if you are trolling)
1)Long life, nearly indestructable.
2)They thread right on my water filter for easy filling in the back country
3)Long life, nearly indestructable.
4) they make back counrty cooking easier with the graduations on the side. I don't need to carry extra measuring cups.
5)Long life, nearly indestructable.
6)They are just soooo cool.
7)Long life, nearly indestructable.
8)They don't leak. Period. (unless abused)
9)Long life, nearly indestructable.
10)Wide mouth makes adding ice, drink mixes, and even filling a whole lot easier. I would like to see someone shove ice cubes through the thin neck of a "spring water" bottle.
11)Did I mention they have a long life and are nearly indestructable?
12)they hold carbonated beverages much better than cheapie bottles. (honest officer, it is fizzy gatorade)
that's the short list of why I love my Nalgenes.
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halcyon
Oct 20, 2003, 5:42 AM
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Every day after school in the band room, a bunch of kids would toss and bounce around nalgenes. after about 2 weeks of major abuse, one was dented. After 3.5 weeks, one broke after being thrown full speed at the ground from someone standing on a chair, and another one broke from someone running full speed at a brick wall and hurling the nalgene at it. All stops were pulled. The bottle itself actually broke. Plastic fragments and all. Most of either bottle remained intact however.
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the_climber
Oct 20, 2003, 5:46 AM
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I have only managed to kill two nalgine bottles in my day. The first me it's demise after a spectacular show of screeming down a 65degree(give or take) scree slope. Note that this one bouced down 1000feet elevation before it blew up. It was completely full when it happened, so we could see the spray. Result: I was thirsty later in the trip. :P The only other one I managed to kill was the first one I ever bought (yes it was one of the old white ones) I had it for 12 years WW paddling, backpacking, football practice, climbing, caving, the list goes on and one.... while at my mom's place she deside to put it in the dishwasher... Result: it formed a spider crack down the one side, BUT FEAR NOT the crack didn't go all the way through! 8) A couple weeks later while skiing I took a massive (deffinition of massive: Cartwheeling down the settled powder, over the hard pack, past the chairlift and into the mogals... T3's baby T3's) wipe out off a 30 foot cornice, well I guess while cartweeling through the mogals I exploded it inside my pack :cry: (no more warm dry clothes).
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tyify
Oct 21, 2003, 5:22 AM
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I was throwing mine off a 30 foot cliff today onto cement...breakage...only a few scratches to speak of..
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desertclimber
Oct 21, 2003, 9:32 AM
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One time, at band camp...
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My roomate had a nalgene for 3 years that he stickered the hell out of. Whenever we would go climbing anywher he would always throw it around, seeing if it would break. And then we went to J-Tree and there he was throwing it around again. Except that this time he managed to get a dent in it. He thought that he should stop throwing it, being afraid it would break. Not wanting my friend to give up on his Nalgene, it bet him he couldn't break it, and even told him I'ld buy him a new one if he did.
Result? He's now got a shinny new PINK Nalgene :shock: :shock:
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Oct 22, 2003, 1:57 AM
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i worked at a summer camp this past summer and we went up to black rock at least 4-5 times with kids and we chucked at least 6 or more nalgenes of the cliff at least half of them survived and went home with kids.it's amazing the abuse that nalgenes take.
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