Portable vacuum sealer...

Diomedes Industries

Diomedes Industries

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I am not sure if you guys have seen these - but I have been using mine for a time and love it:

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It is small and light and allows you to vacuum seal on the trail and the car.

Check them out - they can be found in your local grocery.

TF
 
I have a similar hand held sealer that runs off of batteries. You need to use special bags with it that have a valve built into them but it works pretty well. I stopped using my table top sealer years ago. To much of a hassle and the seals did not last long.
 
I've considered something like that. Are the bags reusable? What all uses have you found for it?
 
Talfuchre said:
I think we get caught up on gear at times and not the method for using it. TF
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Damn, don't you just hate that when it happens? :D

I used to use the old Seal-A-Meal to seal food and other things for canoeing. They stopped making the bags (you could boil them) some time ago. They have newer versions, but nothing I've seen is half as good.

Doc
 
These are really good - they are reusable (they are essentially Zip Loc Freezer bags with a one way valve) and fairly tough.


Ahhhh - shut up Doc - I was just.... I was.... ah hell. ;)




The uses I like for it is for food and the larger ones you can put something in it that you want to make smaller and kind of use it like a space bag.

TF
 
Good to hear these things work well. I've seen them in the store and didn't really know how they would perform.

I use my Foodsaver vacuum sealer all the time for outdoors//survival purposes, as well as for food storage. I have never had any seals go bad, and I've had some items stored for several years now.

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I recently discovered that the heat sealer on the Foodsaver can also be used to "reseal" foil pouches from things like the Starbucks Via instant coffee and fiber bars, making nice waterproof packets for tinder or other items.
 
I use the zip lock bags on:

Ammo in my bug out bags
Matches and firestarters
Food in my BOB
etc

They are also pretty handy just for compressing gear down to fit in a pack. Something you may not use everyday like spare socks or an extra shirt. This way it's 1/3 the size in your pack (and waterproof) until you need it.
 
We used to use the Reynolds one that was battery powered. It was awesome. Always tight seals, reusable bags, easy to use. They discontinued it last year though, and the bags are going for several dollars each on Ebay.

I tried the ZipLoc one, but it just didn't do it for me, so we picked up the FoodSaver model that Costco sells. I haven't had much time to mess with it and it is definitely not portable, but I have high hopes.
 
Pritch said:
Good to hear these things work well. I've seen them in the store and didn't really know how they would perform.

I use my Foodsaver vacuum sealer all the time for outdoors//survival purposes, as well as for food storage. I have never had any seals go bad, and I've had some items stored for several years now.

132950642_5Amyx-L.jpg


I recently discovered that the heat sealer on the Foodsaver can also be used to "reseal" foil pouches from things like the Starbucks Via instant coffee and fiber bars, making nice waterproof packets for tinder or other items.
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I carry almost exactly that in my back pocket whenever I hike. The main difference is that the matches are bundled together in mine. It has never torn open despite taking a beating.

Another good trick is to vac-seal PJ cotton balls. You need to go light on the PJ though so it doesn't get sucked out under vacuum. They compress flat and there's no mess. The resulting package sorta looks like a condom, which may get some chuckles. When fluffed back up, they do an admirable job taking a spark
 
I don't know what you guys in the States use, but up here in Canada, you can buy milk in plastic bags. These bags work very well with a sealer, once they are washed out.

Doc
 
That's odd...I swear this was on the first page or I wouldn't have clicked, read, and posted to it. Which makes no sense as I seem to be the first post since january. :confused:

Oh well, neat subject anyway.
 
beeperboy said:
Can you boil the Foodsaver bags?

BB
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yes. Our boy scout troop uses them as the lazy (and low mess) way to make scrambled eggs when we're not hiking into a location. You just don't stick the bag into the vacuum channel to avoid sucking the liquid out.
 
i have the big food saver from costco and its awesome. i have yet to have a seal fail and it works great. i use to use in the army a bag that had a one way valve on it and you sealed it up rolled the air up and it did a solid job of keeping your clothes sealed up. they were great for field work cause you didn't need anything to reuse them. either way i have tons of stuff from paperwork to matches to food sealed up in them.
 
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