Re: Vietnam Era Water Sterilizing Bag on eday

From: Glen Closson (glen_closson@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 07:19:19 PST


Yes, I remeber those water bags. They had a picture of an American Indian on them and cooled by eveporation.

Weather in CA is 40 at night and 60 during the sunny days.

Glen

-----Original Message-----
From: Everette <
194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Dec 15, 2005 6:51 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Subject: Re: [MV] Vietnam Era Water Sterilizing Bag on eday

anyone remember in "days gone by" a canvas water bag could be purchased that
was designed to hang of front of vehicle for a cool drink of water when you
stopped -- about the same time that a device was sold that fastened in a
partly opened vehicle window and when filled with ice made a cool breeze
come in car as you drove along. There was another device, made for mounting

inside car under dash, had a metal tube that connected to a plate that was
put between carb. and manifold, drew gasoline fumes into this device and
they were ignited by a spark plug in the device, I was a small boy when my
father had one of these in his 1939 Ford car so I do know much more about
how it worked, just that it gave some heat to inside car.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bjorn Brandstedt" <
super_deuce@hotmail.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Vietnam Era Water Sterilizing Bag on eday

>I always thought that the greatest feature of the Lyster bag was the
>cooling of the water by the evaporation of the water that came through the
>porous canvas. Sterilization of water can be done in any container.
>
> Bjorn
> MVPA19212
> Meadows of Dan, Virgina (freezing rain at the moment...)



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