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Re: Skin-on-Frame: plastic bottles as float bags f
By:Nickle
Date: 10/19/2003, 10:00 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: plastic bottles as float bags for SOF *LINK* (Erez)

Have you considered using the bladers from wine casks?

Cheap wine is available in 2 L casks (cardboard box with a blader inside) in Australia and these bladders would be ideal for providing colapseable flotation.
If you contained them in a mesh bag they would be secure.

Mostly the wine is terrible (OK I drank a bit of it when I was studying) but there are some types which are pretty drinkable.

Hope this is of some use to you.

Nicholas Sheahan

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: plastic bottles as float bags for SOF *LINK*
Erez -- 10/17/2003, 7:29 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: plastic bottles as float bags f
Nickle -- 10/19/2003, 10:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: plastic bottles as float bags f
john -- 10/18/2003, 11:14 am
A mesh bag is easiest to work with *Pic*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/18/2003, 4:22 pm
Re: A mesh bag is easiest to work with
Tom Yost -- 10/19/2003, 9:13 am