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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 4:00 pm Post subject: Re-using wine boxes

We buy the occasional box of wine to supplement our homebrew,
and I keep looking at the squeezy bags inside and thinking that there must be a way to effectively re-use them, at least once. Any ideas? I'd love to find a way to use them as bags for collecting birch sap, but whilst a few years ago the bags had stoppers that you could jam a bit of plastic tubing into and bypass the valve, these don't seem to.
Any thoughts? Seems daft to chuck em away if they can be reused
Sally

jema
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: Re-using wine boxes

sally_in_wales wrote:

I buy wine to supplement my wine bottle for home brew

But with some wine kits you get a similar bladder of grape juice. I have a couple of them tucked away on the grounds there has to be an imaginitive use for them, but out side of an emergeny water bag for use on my fantasy trek of the Appalachian Trail I am stuck for ideas as well.

judith

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 4:27 pm Post subject:
Could you refill them - make your own wine boxes. Or is that too obvious?

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 4:38 pm Post subject:
Its how to refill them is the bit I need to work out. If there is a way to bypass the valve it would be easy, but you can't get the 'bung' out, and I can't think of a really effective way to reseal them if I just cut open the top. Mind you, they can be blown up into handy camping pillows!

judith

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 4:58 pm Post subject:
See what you mean - I've never examined the inside of a wine box that veryclosely. If you are able to blow them up, then you could use them as packaging around fragile things.

Nick

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 5:46 pm Post subject:
Hm, the ones I use are easily refillable. Have you tried simply unscrewing the valve? I had to buy some more this week, as I'd run out of throwing wine. These are the 10l versions, mind, not the baby ones.

wellington womble

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 8:41 pm Post subject:
where do you get the 10l ones? I know just the person for those......

Nick

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 10:44 pm Post subject:

Ah, a regular trip to France. Sometimes the buying local and supporting your local producer thing simply fails. Wine is one such example. I trek across the channel a few times a year, buy very, very drinkable wine for no money at all, en vrac, and keep it on tap in the kitchen.

Thirty litres of wine, including the price of the winebox, costs under a pound a litre. I'm sure you can pick them up in this country, too, however. As with all such exotic delights, I reckon a few moments on google would do the job. In isolation, an empty 10l bag, with tap, and a box for stability will cost about 3.5 Euro. (The wine is between 90c and 2.2E a litre, however)

I can pick some up next time I'm in France, if anyone wants.

Hedonists

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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 05 3:07 am Post subject:
If the bladders are still as I remember them - a thin silvery plastic, similar to mylar - they'd be ideal for the lining of a solar cooker. I know that's probably not the sort of answer you were looking for, but it is a 'use' - if you have many spare, you could send a few my way. As I'm determined to make a solar cooker this summer

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 05 8:58 am Post subject:
Now theres a thought, I was planning on making a solar wax extractor for my beeswax, maybe I can use then as reflectors there? Got me thinking now..thanks!

mountainbiker1

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Posted: Sun May 18, 14 4:12 pm Post subject: Old Winebox bladders
or make a decent solar shower- maybe paint/ permanent marker the skin black use the tap as a v frugal way of showering...

Lorrainelovesplants

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Posted: Tue May 20, 14 6:27 am Post subject:
I like the solar wax extractor idea...can anyone develop this?

VM

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Posted: Tue May 20, 14 8:55 am Post subject:

Years ago friend of mine said in despair that her mum had been using one of the wine box bags as a bath pillow. I instantly thought what a good idea and by the next time friend came to stay, we were doing the same. She was not amused!

We used to bring lots of them back from camping trips in France and I never could work out anything else sensible to do with them, though it seemed that one should be able to.

Erikht

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Posted: Fri May 30, 14 2:57 pm Post subject:
I Norway alcohol is so expencive that even well-educated people from good families take out the bag and cut it open to extract the last drop of cheap Spanish wine, so this is unknown territory indeed.

dpack

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Posted: Fri May 30, 14 3:29 pm Post subject:
i would think that yeasts can live in norway,do the northern folk home brew/distil?

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