 Poster: A snowHead
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...quite apart from taking 36 hours longer to arrive home than we did (thanks Continental/Houston International) my nice shiny new Sigg oval bottle, packed fairly well wrapped, etc. arrived with a large dent down the middle.
Clearly this unlikely to affect function but any bright ideas as to how to get the dent out?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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fill with water, screw top on and freeze?????????
or send it back and ask for a perfect one 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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gregh, I did wonder if they gave it that sort of unconditional guarantee...sadly not!
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David Murdoch, not much hope sorry to say, the dent will be stronger than the rest of the bottle. The freezing thing will split the bottle before the dent comes out 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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can't you claim off the courier/Continental/Houston????
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David Murdoch, Same happened to mine - but when in my rucksack which somehow got between me and the snow while skiing  . I found out from the reaction of my mates that this is what Sigg bottles are best known for.
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From first hand experience, you can fill them with water and freeze them. The thing is, it's all about the timing of when to take it out of the freezer. You won'te get it perfect but when the dints come out enough take it out - don't push your luck by freezing it for too long.
But, IMHO it really isn't worth it - they just get dinted again and again. Once they get really battered they look good though - looks like you've been places with it.
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I have had some success with dented hip flasks by putting the top on and sticking it in a sink of hot water. Watch it like a hawk, though, as it might distort (as it's a cylindrical bottle, this might not be a problem), break the stopper or burst.
With small car body work dents, quickly freezing and then quickly heating up a dent can sometimes pop it out, but I'm not sure that it would work with a bottle, and freezing the dent quickly would be troublesome.
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Buy a new one. It will never look unblemished whatever action you take. It was obviously bought for the pose factor  and so should be binned with immediate effect. What do they cost £10-15 ?.
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Buy a new one. What do they cost £10-15 ?. |
A quid in the local poundshop. (Okay they aren't Sigg - but they look extremely similar.)
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DM,
Dents are cred...
It would've happened when you wiped out big time anyway...think you need a better story than in transit tho' 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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dent the other side and pretend it's a design feature
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JT, he he
I haven't got a piccy, but this isn't just a wee ding. More like a major fold in half...
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You know it makes sense.
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Exactly. My bro has a dented Sigg bottle that he claims to have found at the bottom of a large cliff in Chamonix, alongside a helmet with a rather large dent in it - you get the idea...if anyone asks just say the dent happened when you used the bottle to jam the crack in the critical move of an E8 in Yosemite, or maybe it broke your fall when you pulled your first corked 9. For christ's sake don't be seen with brand new shiny kit or you'll look like a punter with a Snow&Rock discount card and no idea
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Buy a new one. It will never look unblemished whatever action you take. It was obviously bought for the pose factor and so should be binned with immediate effect. What do they cost £10-15 ?. |
Look, mate, it's OK for you monied types in Flatcappen Whippetland to recommend such profligacy, but down here in the real world we can't afford to chuck away water bottles at the drop of a hat, even if they are only a quid in a poundshop (whatever one of those is).
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Poster: A snowHead
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richmond, Even better, buy a litre of water for €1 and often they will throw in a plastic bottle for free.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| richmond wrote: |
| we can't afford to chuck away water bottles at the drop of a hat, even if they are only a quid in a poundshop (whatever one of those is). |
A poundshop is a shop where everything costs one pound sterling, also known as a quid.  From www.startups.co.uk:
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| The pound shop phenomenon began with the UK’s original outlet, Poundland. The store opened in Burton-on-Trent at the end of 1990 in an shopping centre that was struggling to attract tenants and took an incredible £13,000 in its first day of opening alone. More stores were to follow and last year the nationwide chain with a range of over 2000 products on its shelves generated £2.6 million in profit. |
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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For anyone (no-one?) interested? I've tried the hot water trick to no avail and now have said Sigg flask in the deep freeze at 55 minutes and counting...
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David Murdoch, how 'bout coke in the flask then in the hot water, or bicarbonate and vinegar 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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slikedges, now there's a thought! OK, if it survives the freezing ordeal, the next is chemical expansion.
I really should just buy a new one. BTW, slikedges, you going to the PSB?
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David Murdoch, would like to but I usually have an important non-skiing trip that time of year, though as it happens, this year I might be free
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slikedges, that would be cool.
Well, 3 hours in my reasonably cold deep freeze and still not frozen through. Decided (even after a few well deserved post office libations) that leaving it in overnight might be unwise.
THe next gripping episode of this almost heroic struggle of man versus dented materials follows probably next Saturday matinee.
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Try freezing it solid with gradually increasing volumes of water in it.
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Can anyone explain why do you even need an aluminium bottle? They were great when compared to glass bottles, but why not use a plastic bottle? It's just for holding water, right? I use either a camelback (actually the Source ones, they are much better - no fungi or funky smell in years of use and minimal maitenance) or a plastic bottle- cheap and light. I don't care that it makes me look like a punter, cause i am.
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sugardaddy,
Because when you wipe out big style the plastic ones can empty all over your pack...
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and when it's full of fine Crianza Reserva that can be mighty messy!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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David Murdoch, I think that your ski trips are in a different league to the rest of ours...
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Kramer, I don't have the first idea what you mean. Last week was extremely abstemious. We had no huge late lunches. Not a one.
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You know it makes sense.
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David Murdoch, I'm just suggesting that your ski trips seem to have a bit more panache than the rest of ours.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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David Murdoch, light lunches are for pussies
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