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A quick and straight question!

 I want to do a water bottle, but I live in Florida, south Florida! Sub-Tropical!

Question: for the wax sealing inside, how does hot temperatures affect the seal? How to deal with the heat? I am sure historically this had to be dealt with!

Ok, a couple questions!

 Thank you 

cheers

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Plastic liner is what my water bag had.

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I do have a water bladder from Tandy for that, thank you. And I will probably use it, but was interested in the historical context.

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My library is packed up at the moment, so I can't quote you a source.  Pitch.  Pitch is what was traditionally used.  The Scandinavians made/make birch tar from birch trees.  I don't know what the continent used, but I'm sure it was something similar.  Tree tar/pitch was used to weatherproof stuff and as a glue.

See if you can find a copy of Black Jacks and Leather Bottells.  Its old enough you might find it on one of the CDs that ebay sellers hock that have 100+ books all about whatever you are looking for.

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12 hours ago, tsunkasapa said:

Brewers pitch. Jas. Townsend carries it.

 

https://www.townsends.us/products/brewers-pitch-bp293-p-373

thank you for the link.

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