From: Mil-Veh Co. (milveh@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sun May 29 2005 - 14:58:02 PDT
Chil Industries developed cans that turn cold when
popped open, great for having a cold drink, from soda
to beer. Stock is sold over the counter under CHIL for
pennies, but who knows might take off if this idea
catches on. When it's 115 in Iraq, a cold drink sounds
better than a hot MRE.
--- Don Low <odonlow@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well thanks Wayne, , I am however already ready to
> HEAT .
> I have a 4 MRE bag heater in the truck on 24 volts
> (yep mil issue)
>
> It calls for NSN number on it, for bag to heat up
> water in .
> But I can not find them listed anywhere except this
> reference
>
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_HotBev,,00.html
>
> Odonlow@hotmail.com
> donlow.50g.com
>
>
>
> From: "Wayne Harris" <papercu@hotmail.com>
> To: odonlow@hotmail.com, mil-veh@mil-veh.org
> Subject: RE: [MV] HEAT TO GO: New Hot Beverage Bag
> for Soldiers
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 05:37:04 -0400
>
> Not exactly what you are looking for but sometime
> this month Kroger grocery
> stores will/should have a Self Heating Coffee Can
> which comes in four
> flavors(retail for about $2.25), It heats the coffee
> to 145 degrees in six
> minutes - and stays hot for 30 minutes, later on
> this fall will be cans of
> self-heating soup in four varieties and Hot
> chocolate and all made to fit
> your car cup holder. Here is the basis idea. Water
> flows into a sealed inner
> cone filled with quicklime, which is mostly calcium
> oxide. A chemical
> reaction heats the coffee to a pleasant 145 degrees
> in six to eight minutes.
> Wayne
>
> BTW MREs heaters mix magnesium iron oxide and water
> and need several steps.
>
> BTW If you just need a source of hot water here is
> one trick the convicts in
> the C.I. I used to work in would do. They would
> steal our Fire Horns off the
> walls, strip the fine copper wire out, wind it up
> like a coil, plug it into
> 120v and heat water to make their coffee with. You
> might could do the same
> with a 12 or 24v battery.. The left over wire would
> be used to make antennas
> for their radios. They would tie one end around a
> tube of tooth paste(for
> the weight) stick their arm out of a windrow and
> toss it on the roof and
> hook it to the radio. Both worked great.
>
>
> >From: "Don Low" <odonlow@hotmail.com>
> >To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Subject: [MV] HEAT TO GO: New Hot Beverage Bag for
> Soldiers
> >Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 01:34:27 -0500
> >
> >
>
>http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_HotBev,,00.html
> >
> >It does not say what these are made of,
> >Anyone know where I can get the4m ?????
> >
> >
> >Odonlow@hotmail.com
> >donlow.50g.com
>
>
>
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