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Baby Soda Bottles

These are good for storing just about anything small you don’t want crushed, spilled, or dampened: Batteries, earbud headphones, mini-first aid kit, medicine. They can also be used to carry liquids on a plane, as they hold about an ounce under TSA’s 3-ounce limit. I’m currently using one (pictured) as a throw-in-my-bag mini-EDC kit, in case I don’t have room for the regular Every Day Carry bag.

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The ones I liberated from my son’s Scientific Explorer kit are also sold individually as Tube Vaults by County Comm, but the best deal I’ve found is 15 for $10 from Steve Spangler Science. According to their site, the Baby Soda Bottles are actually our ubiquitous 2-liter soda bottles before they’ve been heated and stretched, which explains why the caps are interchangeable with soda bottle caps.

The County Comm site shows video of a truck driving over one, so they are obviously sturdy. While there's a more expensive version with a special cap for threading a carabiner through, I doubt it's worth the extra money.

These food-grade polyethylene test tubes are dishwasher safe, strong, waterproof and, yes, I've used one to hide a geocache!

-- Mike Everett-Lane

Available from Steve Spangler Science

 

Baby Soda Bottles
$10 for 15 (5.75" x 1" diameter; holds approximately 2 oz. of liquid)






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