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Repackaging 4g Esbit Tabs
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Apr 5, 2008 at 7:39 pm #1228202
If you are like me, and use the 4g Esbit tabs (2 at a time), nothing makes you more irate then the open packaging that they come in. Esbit crumbs everywhere, handling them with your hands…worry no longer….
Required Materials:
Mount the laminate in the machine and place backing paper and tablets on vacuum packaging machine surface
Turn on heat lamps, you'll know when the laminate is ready when it sags a few inches
The vacuum sucks the laminate tight over the tablets
Remove the tablets embedded in the laminate
The finished tablets are cut into small squares and ready to roll
The backings didn't want to stay on, so I removed them and decided to try some packaging tape
The finished product is air tight and packaged nicely
Enjoy!!!
Apr 9, 2008 at 9:07 pm #1427920How would they be "airtight?" More like watertight, right?
Couldn't you do the same with a Foodsaver and make them truly airtight?Apr 11, 2008 at 6:52 am #1428119My apologies Michael – they are not air tight, as I took the backing off and replaced it. They are, as you stated, watertight. In reality, you could achieve the same results with a foodsaver, or even just putting them in tiny ziplock bags…but it was a lazy Sunday afternoon, and I had been thinking about doing this…and for some reason I thought I would share my work of art with the backpacking community ;)
I had expected thousands of responses about how this was cutting edge technology, and eventually recieving boxes and boxes of tiny Esbit tabs to repackage for the world. I could quit my job and live off the profits! :)Apr 15, 2008 at 7:55 am #1428631"They are, as you stated, watertight. In reality, you could achieve the same results with a foodsaver, or even just putting them in tiny ziplock bags…but it was a lazy Sunday afternoon, and I had been thinking about doing this…and for some reason I thought I would share my work of art with the backpacking community ;)"
Not to mention brag about the cool tools you have access to, eh? ;)
And, yes, I'm jealous. :D
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