Candle lantern-you make it the same as the trophy cup,just put a candle in the bottle neck.The sides of the cup protect it from the wind.
Candle lantern-you make it the same as the trophy cup,just put a candle in the bottle neck.The sides of the cup protect it from the wind.
I clean my empty soda bottles, then fill them with water for storage. Free water storage containers. Just make sure you get all the air out.
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Thanks ME! My husband has about 20-30 he does that with as well.Originally Posted by finallyME
However, why do you mention getting all of the air out? Does the air allow 'stuff' to grow inside the bottle? Dumb question, I am sure.
Sorry...I didn't want to climb the hill to get pictures from my veggie garden. LOL! Yeah, yeah. I'm lazy.
This is one of the juice bottles that I've been using in my parental garden over one of my strawberries. It's been cold out here over night...
You use the 2 liter bottles the same way. The mouth at the top allows for pollination and for air so that it doesn't get too hot.
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Yep. Stuff needs air and moisture. Take one out, stuff can't survive.
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I use empty soda bottles in the garden. I cut them in half and bury the top section upside down, with the soil almost to the top, next to my tomato plants. When I water my tomatoes it works like a funnel to take the water right to the roots. You don't lose much water to evaporation this way, and it doesn't just get soaked up by the dry soil. My Dad uses coffe creamer cans the same way. We just drink more soda than coffee.
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Upside-down planter?
http://www.instructables.com/id/Go-G...ging-Planters/
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see Rick's post on soda bottle bombs
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Darn quick and easy food and water dog bowl for the backpack
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I used some old webbing, a discarded oxygen mask, from an EMT friend and some plastic tubing to make my grandkids some *spacemen/pilot/divers looking gear. Total cost was under $2.00
They are getting hours of fun out of it.
* depending on what they are pretending to be.
The webbing became the the back/shoulder staps, held together with chicago screws.
The tubing was attached to the bottle neck and then to the oxygen mask, which was held on to their face with the elastic stap that came with it.
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Wow, my little use for 2L soda bottles is about to sound lame. I change my own oil in everything we have. My 4X4 truck, my wife's mini van, Harley, 2 4 wheelers, riding mower, push mower, weed eater and bass boat. I have a catch pan bought from an auto parts store years ago. It holds 10 qts.
We have a fleet of vehicles at my company and a shop. Some company comes by and pays a small amount to pick up our used oil and recycles it. I have to keep my trans and diff fluid separate. I fill my stock of about 20 2L bottles and when I hit my limit, I throw them in the back of the truck and bring them to the office to dump. Been reusing most of my bottles for 6 or 7 years.
Actually, that's a great use. I did the same thing with plastic 1 gallon jugs for years until I retired. Our garage had a recycle tank, too. Now I take it to the city's hazardous waste disposal site using the same jugs. They take the oil for free, dump my jugs and give them back to me.
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I think thats a great use of 2lt bottles.
I Wonder Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink what ever comes out?"
Fill them with cement and poke a length of chain down the neck before it sets. They make a great boat anchor.
Here in Brazil they use them for making brooms. They have a jig that cuts the bottle into a long spiral strip about .5 cm wide, like peeling an apple. This strip is then cut into bristles for the brooms.
My friend down here picked up a canteen cover that fits a 2 liter. It looks like a longer version of the army canteen cover.
Clear 2 liters can be used for solar disinfection. Fill them with raw water and leave them in the sun for eight hours on a black surface.
If you're in a tent or shelter turn on your flashlight and stick it up to a full bottle, it turns into a glow lamp. I do this with my 2 liter Platypus bags all the time.
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cut the top off. turn upside down, instant mini greenhouse to help propagate plants, or protect from late frosts.
The reason I started looking for options to transport used oil and settled on 2L bottles is they work better. I have two pans bought from auto parts store YEARS ago that can be closed up and used for transport, but everything like that leaks.
Have you ever noticed the things at the auto store sold specifically for that purpose? The caps are thin. There are maybe two threads. The two threads are far apart. Ever tried to tighten a top on something and you barely turn it and it goes past a stopping point and starts over? Recipe for a leak.
A 2L bottle cap is around 1/2" thick and a number of good tight threads. You can really crank those tops and not over spin.
Another thing I use a 2L bottle for is what I call my no mess oil filter thingy. LOL! If anyone has changed the oil on a Harley, you can't get the oil filter off without a mess. I cut a 2L bottle into a specific shape to fit under the filter. It catches the oil and funnels right down to my pan.
Another use for 2L bottles. A lot of fishing boats have flotation material between the floor and hull. If you get a leak and that stuff gets wet, it's a goner. I know of quite a few people who have dug all of that old stuff out and put empty 2L bottles in its place.
Agreed, I do the same and more. I keep every milk, soda, juice, etc container, wash them out and put the in the attic. Now, you can't store drinking water in old milk containers and even the plastic in the soda could break-down a little in my 120 degree summer attic, but you CAN store non-drinking water in them, water for bathing or dish/clothes washing etc. In the desert water is a huge issue (as you can guess) and we get 12 inches in a good year, so these hundreds of containers serve as my third level back-ups.
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