Flasks^

[Pete]

Warmest wishes

but not necessarily warmest food...

;-)

[Mr Hoppy]

I've given up, none work that well the contents end up stewed and unpleasant tasting. I use my teeny stove, it'll boil quickly enough that by the time I've eaten it's ready to go and it's properly hot freshly made tea.

[David A]

I use my teeny stove, it'll boil quickly enough that by the time I've eaten it's ready to go and it's properly hot freshly made tea.

Sounds about right. Nothing beats a fresh brew up.

David A.

[MikeB]

Thermos Thermax ordered and arrived. In the highly scientific environment of my kitchen, in a controlled test, after 12 hours the contents were still very hot. I will report as things develop - I will also be retaining the proof of purchase - - -

[Graham T]

Mike I tested mine when it first arrived as I was sceptical whether it would meet it's claims having been let down by several other flasks including another Thermos. Following a prewarming the water was still hot a full 24 hours later as advertised only downside I can see is if you want more than the .8 litres I am pretty confident you will not be disappointed

[Daker]

Mike, Im sure you wont be dissappointed.
I regularly take mine for a days windsurfing, dont get round to drinking it, it gets left in the van overnight, then finally is emptied the following day and amazingly, well after 24hrs is still fairly warm !
Enjoy.

[Grahamd]

I use Tesco flasks and find them fine for use over a day. On these and thermos flasks I take the top off of the plastic stopper and put a small plug of polystyrene cut to shape in the void, thn replace the plastic top. This increases the thermal efficiency considerably.

[MikeB]

Just in case it helps anyone, there's a Freepost address for returns of Stanley flasks - -

Burton McCall
FREEPOST (LE 1954)
163 Parker Drive
Leicester LE4 0JP

[Bards]

Just in case it helps anyone, there's a Freepost address for returns of Stanley flasks - -

Burton McCall
FREEPOST (LE 1954)
163 Parker Drive
Leicester LE4 0JP

Thanks Mike - will be despatching flask forthwith, possibly along with food flask. May well be bothering Thermorest shortly as well to boot, having had a pleasantly surprising result with Kryptonite's lifetime guarantee on a bike lock. Hereby declaring 'Year Zero', 'Zero Tolerance', 'No Pasaran' etc. on full implementation of guarantees offered...

Yours dissatisied etc etc etc

[MikeB]

Mike, Im sure you wont be dissappointed.
I regularly take mine for a days windsurfing, dont get round to drinking it, it gets left in the van overnight, then finally is emptied the following day and amazingly, well after 24hrs is still fairly warm !
Enjoy.

Bought 13 May 2012.

Died 12 April 2013.

On it's way back to Thermos. Thankfully, I'd kept the receipt.

Hey ho. Mike.

[coldwind]

Thumbs up for "Thermos" flasks. Had a Stanley and it was great until the rubber seal on the stopper gave up and kept coming off. Didn't know about their customer service, over 12 months old so I binned it.

As for Lifeventure flasks. I had one delivered and the stopper wouldn't sit flush so I took it back to "Cotswold" and the first two I looked at on the shelf were exactly the same. The staff were going to report it as a manufacturing fault. Ended up coming away with dry bags instead.

[Helen M]

Bought 13 May 2012.

Died 12 April 2013.

On it's way back to Thermos. Thankfully, I'd kept the receipt.

Hey ho. Mike.

Hmmm - you're being very calm about all this Mike! I think it was maybe on it's way out at Easter as I remember both you and Cat commented about the temp of the water in it.

Good luck with your next one!

H - x

[mick m]

Thumbs up for "Thermos" flasks. Had a Stanley and it was great until the rubber seal on the stopper gave up and kept coming off. Didn't know about their customer service, over 12 months old so I binned it.

As for Lifeventure flasks. I had one delivered and the stopper wouldn't sit flush so I took it back to "Cotswold" and the first two I looked at on the shelf were exactly the same. The staff were going to report it as a manufacturing fault. Ended up coming away with dry bags instead.

do the dry bags keep yout tea hot ?mabe iv got the rong brand dry bags?

[coldwind]

Thumbs up for "Thermos" flasks. Had a Stanley and it was great until the rubber seal on the stopper gave up and kept coming off. Didn't know about their customer service, over 12 months old so I binned it.

As for Lifeventure flasks. I had one delivered and the stopper wouldn't sit flush so I took it back to "Cotswold" and the first two I looked at on the shelf were exactly the same. The staff were going to report it as a manufacturing fault. Ended up coming away with dry bags instead.

do the dry bags keep yout tea hot ?mabe iv got the rong brand dry bags?

Nah, but they stop my %&*$%&^ flask leaking every where. lol

[MikeB]

Bought 13 May 2012.

Died 12 April 2013.

On it's way back to Thermos. Thankfully, I'd kept the receipt.

Hey ho. Mike.

Hmmm - you're being very calm about all this Mike! I think it was maybe on it's way out at Easter as I remember both you and Cat commented about the temp of the water in it.

Good luck with your next one!

H - x

Calm? Not really - that's £5.20 postage wasted, which they refuse to refund. There's a lesson here - buy locally - the minimal saving made buying direct from Thermos on eBay is more than wiped out by the return postage. One eBay seller is advertising the King flask for £27.99 (free postage) - you can walk into Lakeland and take one away for only £2 more.