coolboxes...?

[joko]

i have been given a normal bog standard coolbox - about the size of a tv, with a handle and lid and seemingly 2 layers of plastic with a gap inbetween...and prsumably you add ice packs to keep it cold...but is there anything between the layers?

i cant hear anything and its light to carry, but there is a small crack on the inside and i wondered if something had escaped....?

i think personally that the gap is what creates the insulation - but am i wrong?

cheers

[DTCwordfan]

with the really good ones there isnt any space, just insulation. Camping Gaz used to make the finest.....you could take two 45 litre boxes with blocks of ice in and they would last a week if you started with one and kept the other closed.

Coleman, who own CH, are not bad but not quite as good. Cheap ones use just the gap but you will only get a short term effect.

With high quality ones, you can even use them as hot boxes. In Egypt, Oman and many ME countries, CG boxes were used by coffee shops, and also attached to hawkers bikes to sell hot coffee on the streets. They just work the other way around, like using double glazing in hot climes to keep the cold in and the heat out.

I used to work for CG.....en France

[DTCwordfan]

Coleman who now own CG, (sorry)

[Buenchico]

The ones that I've seen have all had foam inside them (similar to the polystyrene cups which you get your coffee in).

[DTCwordfan]

cheapo ones have the least and there are (supermarket) brands that dont have any, Chris.....may work for an hour but largely non-functional. Really is a case of what you pay is what you get, performance wise.

[joko]

this one says curver on it...and its orange and brown, very 70s...which i suspect it is as it came from my aunties house who has now gone into a home...

[DTCwordfan]

and very cheap and not really that functional.....a cheap supermarket sold one, sorry joko.

[joko]

oh im not bothered about it being a cheap one, it was free an i've no intention of buying a good one...i just wondered if itd actually work because of the crack
cheers all

[DTCwordfan]

not that well even before the crack....just try it would be my suggestion. A picnic for an hours time ok, packing cold drinks down now for eight hours time, no way....

[chas2008]

usually polystyrene hence why its light