rodke

Howdy fellow Centex geocachers! (Temple-Belton-Killeen) I have eight caches up for adoption due to me moving out of the area. All are long standing caches, all coming up on ten active years. The average number of finds on these caches is a little over 100, so on average about one find per month. One is in north temple near the Walmart and HEB distribution centers on Wendland Road: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4MAWA The other seven are all part of a series (there were eight originally) that run up the service road on the south side of Nolanville Hill, between Belton and Nolanville, TX. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4PXAZ https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4PXBH https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4PXBX https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4PXC3 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4PXED https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4PXDJ https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4PXDX I can meet you on most evenings or weekends to show you their locations and refresh them. I also have a bunch of miscellaneous stuff to stage new caches and maintain existing ones, including containers and logs that I will give to the person that assumes the bulk of these. Please PM me if you have any interest in adopting these caches. Happy caching!

Wow, I can't believe that my post generated this many replies! Thanks for all of your input, advice and comments about various containers. I've done some additional research since finding cheap preforms seems to be something that many of us have suffered with. For the preforms themselves, I can beat even the cheapest of prices listed above, even in small quantities (like 5-10 units). I think I could land in the I could land in the range of .50 each, plus shipping. So the highest I would be is around .85 each for a dozen with shipping, and down to .55 each for an order of 100. Does this change the game, and alter anyone's response to the viability of my crazy idea?

I would be looking at the ones that are an inch across or smaller. Most of them seem to be a 28mm mouth. Can you elaborate on your idea of a scaled up version of the 20-ounce preform? I have looked at preforms for 20-ounce, 1-liter and 2-liter bottles. Can you describe what would be ideal? The one I found here in Temple, TX had a normal soda bottle cap on it, but the body of the preform was probably only about 3/4" across (maybe 16-20mm), so the mouth and lid were a little bigger than the body. What makes them not so good for a geocache? If I did this, I'd obviously like to get what works best for geocaching, which in my mind would be something where the body was the same size or smaller than the mouth and lid. I can't imagine fishing out a log that had unraveled in one that had a fat body. I don't think that they should be very long either, since getting the log out could be a bugger. Thanks for any additional input you have!

Howdy all! I have been geocaching for a little over two years now in central Texas (geocaching.com login: rodke) and just came across a preform the first time about a month ago while at our local corporate challenge 5K. I was impressed with how durable the container was and realized that it had lots of potential. I cut the top off of several 2-liter bottles and sanded the plastic down to make my own super durable cache from the same soda bottle material, but that took me a lot of time to sand them down nicely. So I went out looking for preforms and found that almost everywhere, they are $3+ each, although, some places you can get them for about a dollar with shipping if you want to purchase a bunch. So I started looking to do a large import from a manufacturer, something like 5-10,000 units. If I did, I obviously don't need that many, but I could easily resell them for $1 each (maybe less) with shipping included, as long as someone purchased like ten or more. Shipping is my real wildcard, but I think I could just throw them into any envelope for shipping and they would be fine. I don't have any idea which size would be most popular, and I obviously wouldn't be able to carry many sizes due to the bulk purchase. Do you hiders out there think I'm nuts, or is this a need that I could fulfill? I am thinking that for a buck, you can get something a a little cheaper and bigger than a small bison tube, will last longer, and certainly doesn't have the o-ring problems that me and my girls seem to encounter everywhere when geocaching. I have a buddy that could do a very simple ecommerce site and shopping cart, and would only accept paypal for payment. Literally, I'd have 1-2 products for sale and that's it. Any good or bad, lay it on me. No one is going to hurt my feelings.