Solar Showers

[Tonka]

Solar Shower Disaster!

So after a bit of dusk mountain biking I refreshed myself with a nice solar shower. The good news is, the water warmed up really well. It wasn't just warm, it was very hot. The bad news is... it has the build quality of a napkin. It has a thin plastic handle that you oddly loop cord through to hang it. The cord tore straight through it like a machete through margarine. When I read the instruction (or destructions) I thought, it looked like the biggest design floor since milk cartons, but I thought I’d do it how it says and try it. That was a mistake.

If I had only half filled it, it would have just about taken the weight, but two of us were showering, so I filled it nearly full.
So I punched holes all through the top of the remaining area beneath the torn handle and threaded the cord through them, so the weight is now spread between 12 points rather than 2. But even now, it is only just strong enough.

So if you want to use it for camping let alone survival they really need a bit of work done on them first. Wrapping and fastening the top of the bag around a tube and passing the cord through that would probably work best.

I enjoyed my evening warm shower though.