madjack wrote:...we used to put dry ice in a plastic coke bottle and screw the cap on tightly...toss to the side and what for a very satisfactory POP...
I order specialty items from a Cajun foods supplier in Lafayette La, they pack the items in a 2" thick styrofoam cooler and tape it shut for shipping, I have left it sealed up for a week with no BOOM...
I spent a couple of years of my trucking career transporting liquid CO2 to chicken processors, breweries and various industrial plants...at one chicken plant, they would seal up large plastic boxes, into which we would blow the liquid CO2, which is under 300#s of pressure, when the pressure drops, it turns into dry ice...instantly...they would stack said boxes until needed and I never saw them go BOOM...I think the taped seam of the cooler in insufficient to hold the pressure and the excess would pressure would vent itself out to atmosphere...
SOOoooooo, as long as you don't seal it up with a whole role of 200mph duct tape, it should not go...BOOM.........
madjack
madjack wrote:...we used to put dry ice in a plastic coke bottle and screw the cap on tightly...toss to the side and what for a very satisfactory POP...
caseydog wrote:
I'm going to try your theory it at LCG5... at about 3AM in campsite 40.
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Martini wrote:madjack wrote:...we used to put dry ice in a plastic coke bottle and screw the cap on tightly...toss to the side and what for a very satisfactory POP...
I've seen videos of kids doing that on youtube. I've always wanted to give it a go.
Mike-n-Britney wrote: there's no drain on it so we had to bail out the water.
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Mike-n-Britney wrote: We have a pretty good cooler (Igloo MAX Cool) that keeps things nice and cold. On a Fri-thru-Sun trip two weeks ago to South Texas, in 100 degree heat, we had to run to the store Saturday evening to get more ice. Plus, the one down-side to this cooler, there's no drain on it so we had to bail out the water.
Mike-n-Britney wrote: It will take us two days to get to Colorado (stopping in Albuquerque).
My plan: A) put everything in the freezer the day before we head out. B) stop at the grocery store to get dry ice the night before we leave (~10:00pm). C) pack to cooler. D) hit the road in the morning (~6:00am). E) when we get to Durango, buy wet ice and head to the camp site.
Cliffmeister2000 wrote:I've been wondering what effect dry ice would have on the inside of a cooler. Is the plastic able to handle the extreme cold?
Cliffmeister2000 wrote:Our last trip, I bought too much ice, so we filled the Coleman Xtreme with ice only, and opened it once a day to take ice out for the other two coolers. We didn't run out of ice that trip!
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