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  • eqlzr
    Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 140

    Truck bed water heater.

    I made a good impromptu discovery today. I always carry a case of bottled water around in my truck bed. My truck bed has a black liner. Anyway, I needed to have a quick handwash today, so grabbed a half empty bottle and dumped some out on my hands. Mmmmmmmm. Nice hot water for a wash up. I'll now start looking into this more formally.
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    shooterfpga
    Veteran Member
    • Feb 2009
    • 2761

    just get some visqueen and a sump pump, hook it up to an inverter or hardwire it and you got a jacuzzi.
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    Originally posted by Cactuscooler
    I have Paramilitary training

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    • #3
      OHOD
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      CGN Contributor
      • Jan 2009
      • 11047

      I do the same thing. I fill my solar shower bag prior to hiking and throw it in the back of my truck. At the end of the day, hot water.

      That's also how I make sun tea, couple of tea bags in a nalgene bottle, place in sun for an our or so and BAM! Fresh tea!
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      • #4
        quaildog1
        Member
        • Nov 2009
        • 198

        You can use my PWT (poor white trash) method of heating water while camping. Fill a couple of 1 gallon Ziploc bags with water and put them in a black plastic trash bag in the bed of your truck. Watch out, they can get really hot. Reuse the Ziploc bags and the trash bag as needed for more hot water or to leave your campsite cleaner than you found it.

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        • #5
          Fireguy
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2009
          • 635

          Quail
          If you put the zip locks on top of the black bag the sun will kill the bad stuff in the water.

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          • #6
            eqlzr
            Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 140

            I love these effortless and essentially maintenance-free ideas!

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            • #7
              paul0660
              In Memoriam
              • Jul 2007
              • 15669

              Did you know you can make ice in the winter? Science is your friend.
              *REMOVE THIS PART BEFORE POSTING*

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              • #8
                eqlzr
                Member
                • Jan 2011
                • 140

                Making ice in the summer. Now THAT's science.

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                • #9
                  ZenDaddy
                  Member
                  • May 2010
                  • 403



                  Redneck Jacuzzi!
                  ZD




                  "The trouble with our liberal friends isn't that they are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so..." Ronald Reagan 1964

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                  • #10
                    mschliebs
                    Member
                    • Jan 2010
                    • 470

                    Originally posted by paul0660
                    Did you know you can make ice in the winter? Science is your friend.
                    Recipe, please?

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                    • #11
                      akjunkie
                      CGN/CGSSA Contributor - Lifetime
                      CGN Contributor - Lifetime
                      • Jan 2005
                      • 3482

                      Doesnt plastic bottles leach chemicals into the water if left in the sun for long periods?

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                      • #12
                        Kali-Jax
                        Senior Member
                        • Nov 2009
                        • 629

                        ^Nalgene bottles are now BPA free. Prior to two years ago not so much but they were still taste free.

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                        • #13
                          eqlzr
                          Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 140

                          Originally posted by akjunkie
                          Doesnt plastic bottles leach chemicals into the water if left in the sun for long periods?
                          Well, of course that has to be true. It says so on the internet.

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