Help! Need empty beer bottles!

[awestberry]

Hey y'all,

I'm working on a project for a Boy Scout troop and need some empty aluminum 16oz Bud/Bud Light bottles. They aren't available in my area and I'd be willing to pay the shipping for some empty bottles if anyone out there can buy these and drink the beer for me! Thanks!

[Luddite]

They have to be Bud Light?

[Sickmont]

You can't get Bud in Rome?

[Wise Old Owl]

I had a case but must have tossed it, you can consider some of these new caffiene drinks, mountain dew bottles, and check out your outlets....

[RevLee]

Hopefully it's not for making alcohol stoves. The BSA prohibits homemade stoves (http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/...GSS/gss07.aspx). They don't prohibit commercially made liquid fueled stoves, but they are not recommended.

I wish they would allow it, because that would be a fun skill to teach the scouts. But like a lot of things, I'm sure its all about the liability.

[awestberry]

Uh oh, guess I won't suggest that as a project. We can get Bud here, just not in the 16oz aluminum bottles. I hadn't thought about the other options - had just seen several videos on youtube that were pretty clear on how to make the stoves with the A-B bottles.

[Doc Mike]

use venom energy drink bottles. Works well and takes about 5 minutes to make. Can PM me if any info needed.

Doc Mike

[johnnyblisters]

Hopefully it's not for making alcohol stoves. The BSA prohibits homemade stoves (http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/...GSS/gss07.aspx). They don't prohibit commercially made liquid fueled stoves, but they are not recommended.

I wish they would allow it, because that would be a fun skill to teach the scouts. But like a lot of things, I'm sure its all about the liability.

That is more ridiculous than drinking Bud Lite. BSA not allowing something like that makes me want to move to Canada, utter rubbish I tell you.

[mkmangold]

use venom energy drink bottles. Works well and takes about 5 minutes to make. Can PM me if any info needed.

Doc Mike

Are these made into the Zelph stoves?

[Doc Mike]

No more like a white box stove. See my gallery.

Doc Mike

[DBCFlash]

Those aluminum bottles are used in outdoor situations where glass bottles are a safety concern. Normally they are less available in the winter when there's less outdoor activity.
Larger liquor outlets will likely have at least a few four packs stashed somewhere, but finding emptys is a real trick in the cold weather.
I had to buy them full and drink Budweiser for a few days to get enough for my camp stove project. I normally don't drink more than one beer when I do, so it's taking a while to get enough.

[JaxHiker]

use venom energy drink bottles. Works well and takes about 5 minutes to make. Can PM me if any info needed.

Doc Mike

I can't find these around here. All I find is Rock Star, Monster, and Amp.

[Sickmont]

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I had to buy them full and drink Budweiser for a few days to get enough for my camp stove project. I normally don't drink more than one beer when I do, so it's taking a while to get enough.

That much Bud in one sitting would make me gag. And give me a migraine to boot. But i never EVER refuse free beer....no matter what the brand is.

[Ender]

Uh oh, guess I won't suggest that as a project. We can get Bud here, just not in the 16oz aluminum bottles. I hadn't thought about the other options - had just seen several videos on youtube that were pretty clear on how to make the stoves with the A-B bottles.

It's still OK to make the stoves as a project, as far as I know. They just aren't allowed to be used on BSA events (meetings/hikes/etc). I say still do the project... it's a great thing for the boys to learn how to do, and how to think out of the box.

[unclemjm]

FWIW Pepsi produced a Super Bowl commemerative bottle - WalMart and Krogers in this neck of the woods sells them. Check locally and you may have a non beer product that the boys can empty themselves.

[greginmi]

It's still OK to make the stoves as a project, as far as I know. They just aren't allowed to be used on BSA events (meetings/hikes/etc). I say still do the project... it's a great thing for the boys to learn how to do, and how to think out of the box.

I 100% agree.

I helped my son's troop make a Supercat stove a few years ago. No buildings were burned down or family pets harmed to the best of my knowledge.

It was cool to see a few of them and their dads use them at non-troop hike a few months later.

It's all about teaching them to respect the stove, the quirks of using alcohol for a fuel and to THINK before doing.

Regards,
Greg

[gungho]

Hey y'all,

I'm working on a project for a Boy Scout troop and need some empty aluminum 16oz Bud/Bud Light bottles. They aren't available in my area and I'd be willing to pay the shipping for some empty bottles if anyone out there can buy these and drink the beer for me! Thanks!

i cant believe i am about to say this, but buy the beer and pour it out, or is it against some kind of principal....but of course using beer bottles for a boy scout project might open up a whole new can of worms

[Loneoak]

why can't you just sand the paint off them ? then no one will know what kind of bottle it was

[kreate]

"Prohibited Chemical-Fueled Equipment—Equipment that is handcrafted, homemade, modified, or installed beyond the manufacturer’s stated design limitations or use. Examples include alcohol-burning “can” stoves, smudge pots, improperly installed heaters, and propane burners with their regulators removed."

the terrorists have won.

[rjcress]

I was shocked to find that in the GSS as well.
Apparently, it is OK to have scouts sleep on a portaledge on a sheer rock face, but not to use any sort of can stove that they make themselves.
Welcome to the new America. Land of the molly-coddled, and home of the litigious.