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#30701 - 08/23/04 10:51 PM How to store a sponge?
Brad Offline
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Registered: 08/23/04
Posts: 83
Loc: houston
After reading Chris Kavanaugh's story on the survival story section, I've added a couple sponges to my kit...but how do you store them? Just toss them in, in a bag, clean them first?

thanks for the help
Brad
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#30702 - 08/24/04 12:54 AM Re: How to store a sponge?
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Just toss them into a ziplock bag.

(Uh.... you're supposed to clean them??? Does that include the one I used on the cats' litter box? Ah... shucks!) <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

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#30703 - 08/24/04 02:49 AM Re: How to store a sponge?
Brad Offline
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Registered: 08/23/04
Posts: 83
Loc: houston
Firgured so but the ones I bought are fresh out of the package. Kinda wondered about how clean they could be right now.

Scared to wash them out, then put them in a bag since they may mold. Maybe wash them, let them dry for a few days in the hot garage, then bag them up.

thanks
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#30704 - 08/24/04 03:36 AM Re: How to store a sponge?
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Your best bet would be to look around (any number of Dollar stores) and find the compressed sponges that they all seem to carry or pick up a freebe (it's an election year, I've seen them handed out as promo's) or three and use those <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />. They'll take up a lot less room in your kit and they're clean & sterile (?) when you get them. If you ever need to use them, repackaging isn't your most important issue, and when you get back to a "normal" situation, you can replace them with new ones <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.

Just my two cents worth.

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#30705 - 08/24/04 04:16 AM Re: How to store a sponge?
cedfire Offline
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Registered: 07/10/03
Posts: 659
Loc: Orygun
FYI here's a post from a while back about storing sponges...

http://www.equipped.org/ubbthreads/showt...=true#Post12746

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#30706 - 08/24/04 04:13 PM Re: How to store a sponge?
X-ray Dave Offline
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Registered: 11/11/03
Posts: 572
Loc: Nevada
Sponge Cloth, great !! Never knew it existed. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll go by Albertson's on the way home

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#30707 - 08/24/04 04:48 PM Re: How to store a sponge?
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Registered: 09/30/01
Posts: 5695
Loc: Former AFB in CA, recouping fr...
Sponge cloth is a new one on me too. But you can take a little chunk of a regular sponge and shrink/seal it with your vacuum sealer (EVERYONE should have one of those things). Makes it pretty small, keeps it dry and clean, ready to pop up when it hits water...
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#30708 - 09/03/04 03:52 AM Re: How to store a sponge?
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Registered: 05/29/04
Posts: 84
Loc: North Carolina
Yea, that story about collecting water from dew got me looking for a sponge-type solution, too. Yesterday I bought "The Absorber" -- a synthetic chamois. It is tough, very absorbent, kindof a cross between a cloth and a sponge. When dry it is like a piece of lightweight cardboard. It wrings out easily. I cut a piece to include in my fanny-pack EDC kit, and plan to cut other pieces for the car kits. What's left will make a good camping towel, a use to which I've seen it applied successfully. I got the salmon-pink version to double as a signal, e.g. tied to a stick outside an improvised snow shelter.

BTW I learned about "The Absorber" at a cool site called "Keven Kelly Cool Tools" at http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ . It has sections on "Homestead" and "Outdoors" (including a review of Doug's Pocket Survival Pack!) The "Absorber" review is at http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000381.php

Disclaimer: no connections to the product or the site, but I like 'em both! <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Steve
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#30709 - 09/03/04 12:55 PM Re: How to store a sponge?
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Registered: 08/28/04
Posts: 835
Loc: Maple Grove, MN
I'm using a sponge that's intended to go with a wet palette. You get it at an art store, in the painting supplies. Buy just the refills, not the whole wet-palette system (unless you paint with acrylics and want to try it). It comes as a thin sheet, about 1/16 of an inch. When you get it wet, it expands to about 1/4 inch. I don't think it shrinks back down again when it dries, like other cellulose sponges. I've cut out a piece for my kit that when folded in half fits in a Ziploc "Snack" sized bag.
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