Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's)

[Clan Riffster]

And to think that I was about to suggest he spray all the rest of the pinecones with gloss enamel!!

Post script: I also know a Chad...

[+Knight2000]

Please tell them to make sure to let it be a hotel and not a prison. I encountered my first TB prison yesterday. Grrrrr.

You did, of course, stage a prison break, didn't you?

I didn't actually see the restrictions until I made it home to log it. I took 4 and left 1. I wish I would have cleaned it out. The owner apparently collects bugs from everywhere and takes them to this cache.

[+swizzle]

And to think that I was about to suggest he spray all the rest of the pinecones with gloss enamel!!

Post script: I also know a Chad...

 

I have a cousin Chad who likes to Dog women in his Beer Googles...hmmm...Weird. Swizzle

[fishouttawater]

i made it myself so i like it haha

just made from bottle caps, the neck of a bottle, and glue

i added a magnet so i could stick it to where i am planning on hiding it

its also waterproof

 

on my fridge:

 

the log:

[+bittsen]

i made it myself so i like it haha

just made from bottle caps, the neck of a bottle, and glue

i added a magnet so i could stick it to where i am planning on hiding it

its also waterproof

 

on my fridge:

 

the log:

 

Now THAT'S some good recycling of old stuff. It also is cool that it looks like a giant nano.

[+swizzle]

I've seen this one done before. I always wondered how much of the bottle that you cut off. Can you make another one and show a quick step by step? I'm assuming that you use some kind of pvc glue/sealer? Where'd you get the magnet and how strong is it. I like this cache. Its like a chubby nano. Swizzle

[fishouttawater]

I've seen this one done before. I always wondered how much of the bottle that you cut off. Can you make another one and show a quick step by step? I'm assuming that you use some kind of pvc glue/sealer? Where'd you get the magnet and how strong is it. I like this cache. Its like a chubby nano. Swizzle

sure give me some time to drink some lipton iced tea

[+swizzle]

I've seen this one done before. I always wondered how much of the bottle that you cut off. Can you make another one and show a quick step by step? I'm assuming that you use some kind of pvc glue/sealer? Where'd you get the magnet and how strong is it. I like this cache. Its like a chubby nano. Swizzle

sure give me some time to drink some lipton iced tea

 

Cool. I've been cutting 1" long sections of 1/2" pvc conduit and using that to hold my rolled up scroll log and pencil. It then slides into one of those power shot bottles nice and easy. Its the next best thing to a preform and you still have a little room for small trade items and its completely waterproof. I have one that's been underwater in the field for about a month now and as far as I know its holding up just fine. I think this idea is pretty dang cool as well. Swizzle

[Clan Riffster]

Swizzle, I've seen gobs of bottles used as cache containers, and I've often found it difficult to extract the log, as they tend to unroll a bit inside the bottle. The neck of the bottle creates a choke point. I think you've come up with a rather ingenious resolution to this issue.

[+swizzle]

Swizzle, I've seen gobs of bottles used as cache containers, and I've often found it difficult to extract the log, as they tend to unroll a bit inside the bottle. The neck of the bottle creates a choke point. I think you've come up with a rather ingenious resolution to this issue.

 

It seems to work just fine for me. I started off by making a simple ring out of a small bit of stiff wire. About half the thickness of a coat hanger maybe a little less. The pvc rings are nice because there is more surface area to prevent the scroll log from sliding out of the ring and opening up inside the container. The only other thing I'm considering doing is to rough up the pvc and paint it flourecent orange so that if a cacher drops it well signing the log its easily found and you just wrap the log around the pencil and put the log and pencil through the pvc ring and slide it right back in the bottle. The 1/2" conduit slides right in to one of those power shot bottles. It feels like it was made to fit it. An 8 foot piece of conduit is less then a $1 and you should be able to get almost 100 rings out of it. At first I was making a tube out of the conduit the same length as the power shot bottle itself but then its a pain to get the log out of the tube. In my opinion these are a heck of a lot better then pill bottles, and film cans and you still have just a little room for small trade items. By small I mean you have to be able to fit it inside the mouth of a soda bottle. So go out and buy yourself a dozen power shots and start drinking them now. Just drink enough to keep you awake long enough to finish turning the whole dozen into large micro caches. I take off the sticker and rough them up to get rid of the shiney but I suppose you could wrap them with camo duct tape as well. On two of them I removed the plastic ring on the neck below the cap and with some stiff wire you have a nice place to wrap the wire around the neck and make a hook to hang it in a tree. Swizzle

[+Knight2000]

Two Gallons?

 

Not found often but we thought it was fun. It's an imitation of a cache in this thread somewhere. My son is not a micro fan so we had to super size it.

 

As it is a heavy cache I had to figure out a way to soften the blow when you drop it back in. I cut the bottom out of a plastic water bottle and drilled more holes in it. (There are holes in the bottom of the tube too.) It works great. It was kind of expensive if you don't have this stuff laying around. $30 for a cache that gets about 1 finder a month.

 

*Edit to add that the hint is a water fountain about 1/3 mile away.

 

Edited August 27, 2009 by Knight2000

[+Knight2000]

i made it myself so i like it haha

just made from bottle caps, the neck of a bottle, and glue

i added a magnet so i could stick it to where i am planning on hiding it

its also waterproof

 

on my fridge:

I learned this the hard way. Put the magnet on the inside.

[fishouttawater]

i made it myself so i like it haha

just made from bottle caps, the neck of a bottle, and glue

i added a magnet so i could stick it to where i am planning on hiding it

its also waterproof

 

on my fridge:

I learned this the hard way. Put the magnet on the inside.

ah ok

thanks

[+Evshro & son]

Swizzle, I've seen gobs of bottles used as cache containers, and I've often found it difficult to extract the log, as they tend to unroll a bit inside the bottle. The neck of the bottle creates a choke point. I think you've come up with a rather ingenious resolution to this issue.

 

It seems to work just fine for me. I started off by making a simple ring out of a small bit of stiff wire. About half the thickness of a coat hanger maybe a little less. The pvc rings are nice because there is more surface area to prevent the scroll log from sliding out of the ring and opening up inside the container. The only other thing I'm considering doing is to rough up the pvc and paint it flourecent orange so that if a cacher drops it well signing the log its easily found and you just wrap the log around the pencil and put the log and pencil through the pvc ring and slide it right back in the bottle. The 1/2" conduit slides right in to one of those power shot bottles. It feels like it was made to fit it. An 8 foot piece of conduit is less then a $1 and you should be able to get almost 100 rings out of it. At first I was making a tube out of the conduit the same length as the power shot bottle itself but then its a pain to get the log out of the tube. In my opinion these are a heck of a lot better then pill bottles, and film cans and you still have just a little room for small trade items. By small I mean you have to be able to fit it inside the mouth of a soda bottle. So go out and buy yourself a dozen power shots and start drinking them now. Just drink enough to keep you awake long enough to finish turning the whole dozen into large micro caches. I take off the sticker and rough them up to get rid of the shiney but I suppose you could wrap them with camo duct tape as well. On two of them I removed the plastic ring on the neck below the cap and with some stiff wire you have a nice place to wrap the wire around the neck and make a hook to hang it in a tree. Swizzle

 

I am probably missing something here, but once the neck is cut off the bottle how is the bottom sealed?

[+swizzle]

Swizzle, I've seen gobs of bottles used as cache containers, and I've often found it difficult to extract the log, as they tend to unroll a bit inside the bottle. The neck of the bottle creates a choke point. I think you've come up with a rather ingenious resolution to this issue.

 

It seems to work just fine for me. I started off by making a simple ring out of a small bit of stiff wire. About half the thickness of a coat hanger maybe a little less. The pvc rings are nice because there is more surface area to prevent the scroll log from sliding out of the ring and opening up inside the container. The only other thing I'm considering doing is to rough up the pvc and paint it flourecent orange so that if a cacher drops it well signing the log its easily found and you just wrap the log around the pencil and put the log and pencil through the pvc ring and slide it right back in the bottle. The 1/2" conduit slides right in to one of those power shot bottles. It feels like it was made to fit it. An 8 foot piece of conduit is less then a $1 and you should be able to get almost 100 rings out of it. At first I was making a tube out of the conduit the same length as the power shot bottle itself but then its a pain to get the log out of the tube. In my opinion these are a heck of a lot better then pill bottles, and film cans and you still have just a little room for small trade items. By small I mean you have to be able to fit it inside the mouth of a soda bottle. So go out and buy yourself a dozen power shots and start drinking them now. Just drink enough to keep you awake long enough to finish turning the whole dozen into large micro caches. I take off the sticker and rough them up to get rid of the shiney but I suppose you could wrap them with camo duct tape as well. On two of them I removed the plastic ring on the neck below the cap and with some stiff wire you have a nice place to wrap the wire around the neck and make a hook to hang it in a tree. Swizzle

 

I am probably missing something here, but once the neck is cut off the bottle how is the bottom sealed?

Which post are you refering to? Mine or the obese nano? Swizzle

[+ZeroHecksGiven]

yeah, wouldn't mind seeing the bottle cap cache opened up

 

edit: well, so we can see how it's built...

Edited August 28, 2009 by NWCREW

[+Knight2000]

yeah, wouldn't mind seeing the bottle cap cache opened up

 

edit: well, so we can see how it's built...

Just cut below the lip at the top of the bottle. Put another cap on this end with a generous amount of appropriate adhesive. (This was my own test version. I did not post those other pics. I cut off the yellow band where the other picture left the black band between the two caps.) Glue a neodymium magnet into the end for more fun!

 

[+Wooden Cyclist]

yeah, wouldn't mind seeing the bottle cap cache opened up

 

edit: well, so we can see how it's built...

Just cut below the lip at the top of the bottle. Put another cap on this end with a generous amount of appropriate adhesive. (This was my own test version. I did not post those other pics. I cut off the yellow band where the other picture left the black band between the two caps.) Glue a neodymium magnet into the end for more fun!

 

 

Ok, I just ran out to our recycle bin and pulled out a bottle and a couple of caps. Cut the neck off the bottle and put the caps on. Very easy. I understand that the adhesive will be gooped into the bottom of the cap that will be installed on the cut end. One question. What is the "appropriate adhesive"? I would prefer to avoid the trial and error stage of this project.

 

There are several adhesives in my shop, but most are for woodworking and won't be likely candidates.

[fishouttawater]

yeah, wouldn't mind seeing the bottle cap cache opened up

 

edit: well, so we can see how it's built...

Just cut below the lip at the top of the bottle. Put another cap on this end with a generous amount of appropriate adhesive. (This was my own test version. I did not post those other pics. I cut off the yellow band where the other picture left the black band between the two caps.) Glue a neodymium magnet into the end for more fun!

 

 

Ok, I just ran out to our recycle bin and pulled out a bottle and a couple of caps. Cut the neck off the bottle and put the caps on. Very easy. I understand that the adhesive will be gooped into the bottom of the cap that will be installed on the cut end. One question. What is the "appropriate adhesive"? I would prefer to avoid the trial and error stage of this project.

 

There are several adhesives in my shop, but most are for woodworking and won't be likely candidates.

i have tried a glue ment for plastic

and the one i am making right now im going to try some epoxy

[+Evshro & son]

yeah, wouldn't mind seeing the bottle cap cache opened up

 

edit: well, so we can see how it's built...

Just cut below the lip at the top of the bottle. Put another cap on this end with a generous amount of appropriate adhesive. (This was my own test version. I did not post those other pics. I cut off the yellow band where the other picture left the black band between the two caps.) Glue a neodymium magnet into the end for more fun!

 

 

Ok, I just ran out to our recycle bin and pulled out a bottle and a couple of caps. Cut the neck off the bottle and put the caps on. Very easy. I understand that the adhesive will be gooped into the bottom of the cap that will be installed on the cut end. One question. What is the "appropriate adhesive"? I would prefer to avoid the trial and error stage of this project.

 

There are several adhesives in my shop, but most are for woodworking and won't be likely candidates.

i have tried a glue ment for plastic

and the one i am making right now im going to try some epoxy

 

So, would it make sense to place the magnet in the bottom cap while placing the adhesive?

Thanks also for the reply to my question. I was wondering how the bottom was capped.

[+Knight2000]

Thanks to all who shared for the inspiration from this thread. Let's keep 'em coming! Unless it is in a great spot I usually only hide caches that are different like the ones here. Inspire me!

 

So, would it make sense to place the magnet in the bottom cap while placing the adhesive?

I would definitely put the magnet inside. My first cache had magnets on the outside and they failed after two days. Because the hide was different some folks did not find it as intended.

 

I have yet to find an adhesive that works with neodymium magnets but I am sure they are out there. To be safe after it is glued I would put duct tape over the magnet. The biggest thing is not losing it when it is opened. I would try an epoxy. I have some adhesive somewhere that is about $6 a tube but it is supposed to work on everything, and even set underwater. It is like clear silicone, but it isn't silicone. I can't find it or I would finish my weird looking project that you already made.

Edited August 28, 2009 by Knight2000

[+Wooden Cyclist]

I have been looking around the house at different containers that have screw on lids. The technique for making this container could be used to make containers of many different sizes. If you were to get some gallon food containers from a restaurant you could make some pretty large ones at a very low cost.

Edited August 29, 2009 by Wooden Cyclist

[golfgunny]

Is your fridge outdoors? LOL

 

Neat container. I'm a big fan of truly waterproof containers, since I live on a tropical island.

[+bittsen]

I have been looking around the house at different containers that have screw on lids. The technique for making this container could be used to make containers of many different sizes. If you were to get some gallon food containers from a restaurant you could make some pretty large ones at a very low cost.

 

Yup, I did a little dumpster diving (they were really just sticking out of the garbage can) a while ago and grabbed 2 plastic gallon jars for GCing. Add a gasket to the lid and it should be quite weather resistant.

 

If you don't want to go into the garbage to get the gallon jugs, just knock on the kitchen door of a restaurant and ask.

[+synthacide]

the soda bottle semi-nano above is awesome...thanks for that posts guys... saw one on ebay for like 3 bucks, thought "I can make that!" now i know exactly how... as for magnets i get mine here:

 

http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.magnets

 

best source I have found...

[+Knight2000]

http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.magnets

 

best source I have found...

That seems to be a crazy good price if the shipping is really free. Crap. You just cost me some money...

 

Thanks for sharing.

[+Fuzzywhip]

I find that JB-Weld is good for cementing hard drive magnets into caches. Roughen the surface of the magnet with a file. Also roughen the area inside the cache where the magnet is placed so you get good adhesion.

 

Use a good glop of JB-Weld to cover the magnet. The metal in the JB-Weld will want to pile up on the magnet, but I do not find this a problem. As the JB-Wend starts to thicken, use a coffee stir stick to spread the JB-Weld out so it sticks to the inside of the cache around the magnet. Let it set for at least a day, and you are ready to go!

Edited September 1, 2009 by Fuzzywhip

[+Puppy Dawg]

I'm thinking of putting a cache in this:

[+bflentje]

I'm thinking of putting a cache in this:

 

It's been done here to death.

[+Knight2000]

I find that JB-Weld is good for cementing hard drive magnets into caches. Roughen the surface of the magnet with a file. Also roughen the area inside the cache where the magnet is placed so you get good adhesion.

 

Use a good glop of JB-Weld to cover the magnet. The metal in the JB-Weld will want to pile up on the magnet, but I do not find this a problem. As the JB-Wend starts to thicken, use a coffee stir stick to spread the JB-Weld out so it sticks to the inside of the cache around the magnet. Let it set for at least a day, and you are ready to go!

While not a hard drive magnet I have used JB Weld with a regular round shiny neodymium magnet. I can't recall if it worked but I do not think it did.

 

JB is also good for attaching two nuts (like nuts and bolts) together and then using them as a card protector when you play poker. Then you can say that you have the nuts.

[+Knight2000]

I'm thinking of putting a cache in this:

 

It's been done here to death.

I wouldn't say that. It has been done but it's not like it comes up every week. Besides, lots of images from this thread are gone.

[Clan Riffster]

I find that JB-Weld is good for cementing hard drive magnets into caches.

My oldest son found a bunch of metal, gasketed film cans on Ebay, which he bought for me.

The lid was ferrous, but I think the body was aluminum.

I wanted to affix rare earth magnets to the bases, and give them away as raffle prizes.

I tried Super Glue, epoxy, Gorilla Glue, Goop and JB Weld.

All of them failed, even after roughing up both the base and the magnet.

I eventually glued the magnets to the inside, and all worked well.

[+synthacide]

http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.magnets

 

best source I have found...

That seems to be a crazy good price if the shipping is really free. Crap. You just cost me some money...

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

yea dealextreme is a great site! you could spend all your money there

 

that snake would scare the !@#* out of me if I found it in a cache

[+Knight2000]

I tried my adhesive that I use for most caches. I wouldn't have doubted if it didn't work well because I didn't leave a lot of lip to adhere to the inside of the cap. I used the adhesive LEXEL. It is like a latex silicone base but stronger than liquid nails. The longer it sits the harder it gets. After 12 hours it was very flexible but I didn't force it. At 36 it was great. I know from another cache I put out that in a couple weeks it will be very strong.

 

I bought this at Ace hardware but it wasn't cheap. (Of course nothing there is!) It was $6 for a 5 oz tube. It looks like I should have been able to get a full size caulk gun tube for that.

 

I used this to adhere magnets to the inside of a magnetized geocache. I do not know how it worked. I did maintenance on it while in the field. I put the adhesive on, stuck the magnets on and covered it with duct tape. (Just in case and to keep the goop from getting on the swag.) The magnets would hold it in place while it dried. That was probably 6 months ago. I'll check on it soon, but I don't expect it to adhere to those magnets.

 

I want to take this container and put a magnet in the end. Then I *think* I will put it under some metal stairs. (About 10 feet up!) Hard to get down but with magnet(s?) easy to get up. Just hope you're a good tosser.

Edited September 1, 2009 by Knight2000

[+Wooden Cyclist]

I completed a couple of the bottle cap containers. The adhesive that worked was Loctite Stick'n Seal Ultra. Seems to grip the plastic well and stays somewhat flexible. I didn't use any magnets so I can't comment on its ability to hold them. The first completed container ended up as swag in a cache that I found today. I'll hide the other soon.

 

One that is under construction on my bench could almost be called a nano. The bottle neck and caps are from airline size booze bottles. I probably will put a magnet in that one.

 

Hey Knight. How did your gallon jug container come out?

Edited September 1, 2009 by Wooden Cyclist

[+Knight2000]

Hey Knight. How did your gallon jug container come out?

I didn't make one.

 

I have used a gallon rubbermaid brand container that you might put bulk breakfast cereal in. I covered it with camo cloth and after two years it is great. Now that I think about it the container is a plastic jar that might have bulk pretzels in it. I bought it though so it doesn't smell like food.

[+Knight2000]

I just happened to stop by two of my caches today. This one needed maintenance so I can take a picture.

 

I glued on the camo cloth with gorilla glue. It has been out since 6/07. I don't know why but my wife has a propensity to sniff every cache we find. I had her sniff this and she said it smelled like nothing. There is no rotting. The only reason I had to do maintenance is someone let part of the lid camo flaps get into the threads and it didn't seal because of this. Ants decided to make a little home there. Not wet, just had ants.

 

All in all great shape for 2 years. It is just sitting next to a tree. It is not shoved in some hidey hole or covered with leaves and sticks in a parallel fashion. Sitting in the open surely makes its camo smell better last longer.

[+Wooden Cyclist]

i made it myself so i like it haha

just made from bottle caps, the neck of a bottle, and glue

i added a magnet so i could stick it to where i am planning on hiding it

its also waterproof

 

on my fridge:

 

the log:

 

After making a couple of these, I tossed them into my geobag. Yesterday I put one in a cache that I had just claimed the FTF on. The next finder included this in their post. "We took the micro geocache container and thought it was so neat we felt compelled to leave several things in its place in order to trade up."

 

Looks like I found a new trade item.

 

I placed another of the containers in a new cache that got listed today I haven't gotten any feedback because none of the first 5 seekers were able to locate it. Its not the size of the cache that makes it tough its the location. Some special equipment is needed.

[+Evshro & son]

i made it myself so i like it haha

just made from bottle caps, the neck of a bottle, and glue

i added a magnet so i could stick it to where i am planning on hiding it

its also waterproof

 

on my fridge:

 

the log:

 

After making a couple of these, I tossed them into my geobag. Yesterday I put one in a cache that I had just claimed the FTF on. The next finder included this in their post. "We took the micro geocache container and thought it was so neat we felt compelled to leave several things in its place in order to trade up."

 

Looks like I found a new trade item.

 

I placed another of the containers in a new cache that got listed today I haven't gotten any feedback because none of the first 5 seekers were able to locate it. Its not the size of the cache that makes it tough its the location. Some special equipment is needed.

 

I made one of these using 2 liter soda bottle caps and a top. Before gluing the end cap on I slipped a magnet I had from Office Max in there. It was smaller than the cap and fit perfectly. After the epoxy dried it seemed to work ok. It is not as strong as some magnets out there, but even covered with some camo tape it sticks to metal. Thanks for the idea! Now I just have to find the perfect spot for it.

[Clan Riffster]

I want to take this container and put a magnet in the end. Then I *think* I will put it under some metal stairs. (About 10 feet up!) Hard to get down but with magnet(s?) easy to get up. Just hope you're a good tosser.

I hope you won't mind me stealing this idea?

[+Knight2000]

I want to take this container and put a magnet in the end. Then I *think* I will put it under some metal stairs. (About 10 feet up!) Hard to get down but with magnet(s?) easy to get up. Just hope you're a good tosser.

I hope you won't mind me stealing this idea?

It's not stealing. We all share. I have taken more from this thread than I have given. I hope it goes ok!

[+chrisrayn]

whoops

Edited September 5, 2009 by chrisrayn

[reignynight]

I don't have zero finds...just didn't want to ruin one of my upcoming puzzle caches in Indiana. ;-)

 

It's a magnetic nano. Merry Xmas.

 

 

[+Puppy Dawg]

Kewl! How did you do that?

 

So I'm not the only one who uses sock puppet accounts?

Edited September 5, 2009 by Puppy Dawg

[Clan Riffster]

It's a magnetic nano. Merry Xmas.

You, Sir, are evil, and will come to a bad end...

[fishouttawater]

 

It's a magnetic nano. Merry Xmas.

 

 

how on earth did you paint that ?

[jbuffethed]

I'm thinking of putting a cache in this:

 

Here is mine posted a few pages back.

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...t&p=3965678

[+navets]

Found this yesterday.

 

Genius.

 

 

[+chrisrayn]

 

It's a magnetic nano. Merry Xmas.

 

 

how on earth did you paint that ?

 

My brother makes these tiny little sculpy statues for people for Dungeons and Dragons sometimes, and he paints them with the tiniest brushes you can buy cheaply, and a toothpick. He's pretty dadgum good.

 

So...maybe that way? :-s

[Cache Bandits R Us]

I don't have zero finds...just didn't want to ruin one of my upcoming puzzle caches in Indiana. ;-)

 

It's a magnetic nano. Merry Xmas.

 

 

 

WAY COOL!