For all your general chit chat, caching or not.
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Camstal
- 50 or more caches found
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- Location: Emerald, QLD
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by Camstal » 02 September 07 6:45 pm
What types of bottles do you use??
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wombles
- 250 or more caches found
- Posts: 241
- Joined: 07 May 06 1:35 pm
- Location: Caboolture
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by wombles » 02 September 07 7:54 pm
I saw a great one yesterday, it was a Moxie tin (Feminine hygiene product) sanded and painted black, a great size and the lid fits well.
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Team Wibble
- 2100 or more geocaches found
- Posts: 1054
- Joined: 18 October 04 11:47 am
- Location: Adelaide
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by Team Wibble » 02 September 07 8:13 pm
I have waterproof tested moxie tins. They don't hold up well, not watertight in the least.
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Knot_gillty
- 100 or more tracks walked
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- Joined: 29 January 07 9:19 pm
- Location: Trafalgar VIC,
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by Knot_gillty » 02 September 07 11:25 pm
Cant go past an ammo box!!
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CraigRat
- 850 or more found!!!
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- Location: Launceston, TAS
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by CraigRat » 03 September 07 8:45 am
I prefer Sistema Clip Lock containers for the Tassie conditions. Also common here (unfortunately) are second hand lunch boxes which are not very watertight (if at all)...avoid them wherever possible!
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wombles
- 250 or more caches found
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- Location: Caboolture
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by wombles » 03 September 07 5:49 pm
I've only seen the one moxie tin and it was quite dry but will scrathc them off my possible container list!
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Smelly Boot
- 1400 or more caches found
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- Joined: 27 November 06 2:28 pm
- Location: Bathurst
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by Smelly Boot » 05 September 07 3:22 am
We've used quite a few of those screw top fruit containers. They hold about a litre so are good for small swaps and TB's. They seem to hold up quite well to the weather around the Central West area of NSW and we've seen a few around south of here.
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zactyl
- Posts: 1171
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- Location: Mullumbimby, NSW
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by zactyl » 05 September 07 3:50 am
wombles wrote:I've only seen the one moxie tin and it was quite dry but will scratch them off my possible container list!
They'd be great for a well sheltered spot such as under a park bench.
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pprass
- 10000 or more caches found
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- Location: Port Macquarie
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by pprass » 05 September 07 3:00 pm
Smelly Boot wrote:We've used quite a few of those screw top fruit containers.
And you get a sweet aroma surprise when you open the lid
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CraigRat
- 850 or more found!!!
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by CraigRat » 05 September 07 3:05 pm
Smelly Boot wrote:We've used quite a few of those screw top fruit containers.
Here in tassie there are a fair few of these...quite lot of them end up getting nibbled by the critters (doesn't seem to matter how well you clean them, the native animals still find em tasty!)
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fehrgo
- 200 or more found
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- Joined: 11 July 06 12:39 am
- Location: Redland Bay, QLD
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by fehrgo » 05 September 07 7:36 pm
A magpie dismantled my plastic rain gauge a few months ago just for kicks, so I wouldn't doubt if they muggle the occasional cache
He removed a 4x5 cm chunk of 4mm thick HDPE from the corner of it, which must have been no small task.
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Bundyrumandcoke
- 5000 or more caches found
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- Joined: 07 August 06 1:54 pm
- Location: Blackwater Queensland
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by Bundyrumandcoke » 09 September 07 12:11 am
Camstal, I have to say I would doubt the watertightness of some of the caches out your way. I may be wrong, but would not like to see them after heavy consistant rain.
Oh thats right, it doesnt rain out there, except last Monday morning when I was passing through on the bike.
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Camstal
- 50 or more caches found
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- Location: Emerald, QLD
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by Camstal » 09 September 07 12:52 pm
Bundyrumandcoke wrote:Camstal, I have to say I would doubt the watertightness of some of the caches out your way. I may be wrong, but would not like to see them after heavy consistant rain.
Oh thats right, it doesnt rain out there, except last Monday morning when I was passing through on the bike.
It has poured in Emerald and my caches have withstood that rain!!
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Bundyrumandcoke
- 5000 or more caches found
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- Location: Blackwater Queensland
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by Bundyrumandcoke » 09 September 07 1:41 pm
Fair enough then Cam, not a problem.