Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

So, I had kind of an idea and I want to bounce it off of you people and tell me what you think….

I was in Sportsmans Warehouse the other day and the Nalgene 32 oz. bottles were $7.50 ea. I was thinking it'd be nice to pick up a few for destructive testing (drop survivability, impact resistance, etc..basically Test To Destruction) and I thought 'Man, I cant spend $30 on something just to destroy it for my own information gathering purposes'. Basically, we're talking about beating the living hell out of a product, in this case a Nalgene bottle, to determine if its a good piece of gear.

Then I started thinking some more, which is where the problems usually start. What if, I managed to get a few interested parties to chip in a few bucks each so I could get a few of these things for testing? We could write up a testing protocol of sorts  (10' drop, 15' drop, 20' drop, drop at angle, from moving vehicle, crush test, etc) and once we've all agreed on the tests, I'd go destroy these things (or not destroy them as the case may be). The resutls, with accompanying photos, would go in a Freinds Only post filtered for people who coughed up a couple bucks to find out if a Nalgene bottle can survive falling off a truck at 65 mph.

If it works out well, maybe once a month interested parties would suggest items for testing and it would become a monthly event.

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