Heheheh...

Well it seems that when you put a Nalgene lid on a Dromedary 10 liter bag and fill it with gas, a good liquid seal is not going to be a problem. The gas welds the parts together after a night. This came as a rather unpleasant surprise to me in a snowstorm on the Dalton highway, about 120 miles from the Arctic Ocean. Using a small screwdriver I managed to pry the lid off the plastic threads of the bag, and neither seemed to sustain much damage, and were usable again for the return trip... but these probably are not going to work many more times, as I imagine the bag's threads are slightly damaged each time. A metal lid might be better, if anyone knows of something with similar threads... or maybe some kind of powder between them, but then the lid might not seal perfectly.

Also, I eventually realized that I should put the 2 10 liter bags inside the aluminum touratech cases, because anywhere outside risked catastrophic spillage in a crash (which I had, in 3 inches of snow, with calcium choride over mud...) and the lower they were, the less the slosh factor would screw up my balance and steering.

After the mild tossup, I was glad that they were inside the case - but the case itself reeked of gas, and the sleeping bag I had inside a waterproof bag buniged to the top of the metal case also smelled of gas for about a day (no liquid gas ever escaped but the fumes did.)

I've washed the bags and the box out, and hope to keep the Dromedary bags for use again later - I'm putting them in a plastic bag under my tools, and hopefully I can keep everything from reeking of gasoline along the way.

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