Talk:Nalgene
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This page is just, well, odd.
Where are the other brands of water bottle manufacturers. This lot hardly invented the water sports bottle!
Was just searching around for data on these bottles, and found an article claiming a serious health hazard [1]. No time now for in-depth research but I wanted to put this out here. Tualha 13:28, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Follow-up: lots more links out there - google for polycarbonate water bottles bisphenol. Also a rebuttal to a Consumer Reports article, from the American Plastics Council. Um, ok. Real unbiased source, I'm sure. Tualha 13:38, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was concerned about whether we were talking about Lexan (from GE) or lexan (generic). LEXAN® Resin Branding Program answers that clearly by displaying the Nalgene logo. (While i am adding mention of the all-caps spelling to the Lexan article, using it on this talk page's article is legally unnecessary (we aren't using it to sell anything) and would thus violate our journalism-style std of common, not legalese or advertising, usage.)
--Jerzy (t) 20:12, 2005 May 4 (UTC)
[edit] Nalgene Breakability
How to break a nalgene bottle???
If you fill a nalgene bottle to the top with water and freeze it, will it break? Are you willing to test this on your 10 dollar bottle? Not me...let me know the outcome.
Thanks, Nicole
- Well I tried this: I put water in a standard 1l bottle to the top and put it outside to freeze overnight (a cold canadian night). Next morning it had "stretched" but was still in one piece. So then, i poured boiling water hoping the tempreature rise would make it crack. Nope still in one piece. This is where i gave up, but my friend said that he broke his by filling it with a 1 litre bottle of coke and then shaking it very hard for about a minute and then smashing it againt a rock, the squeezing it under his armpit. I havent tried it myself nor did i see the broken bottle. User:MaxViper
So what? Myths about "unbreakable" things are not about the things, but about the concept "unbreakable". "Unbreakable in normal use" is useful information, within the limits of its imprecise terminology. "Unbreakable no matter what" is a perfectly precise term, and there is nothing it applies to. Any discussion of unbreakability is unencyclopedic.
--Jerzy•t 05:44, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Other brands of reusable water bottles
Do we want to have a section on other brands of water bottles. I created the pic to the right of a non Nalgene brand (Rubbermaid actually) reusable water bottle and I'm a little concerned with the naming specific to one brand, it might bring in a "Wikipedia supports Nalgene" claim from other brands. -- Tawker 07:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
- On the other hand, this article is about Nalgene (the company). We also have articles on other companies, and those articles describe their products. (For example, Rubbermaid has an article discussing that brand.) While we sometimes discuss a company's major competitors in a given market, I don't know that I would encourage it as a general practice—it's a slippery slope where we start seeing every maufacturer of water bottles listed here....
- An observation—the article at water bottle is currently a disambiguation page. If someone wanted to create an article about water bottles (development, history, technology, major brands, etc.) in general, that would be a good place for it. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Alternate uses?
User:Keflavich/Nalgene_in_Microwave I've used my nalgene as a pressure cooker, are there any other good 'alternative uses' people have tried? I think it would be nice to start an article on it if there are enough. --Keflavich 17:44, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
