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Jan 23rd, 2013 | |  Insulating water ice cooler and live well #13602381 06/21/20 12:38 AM | OP  Angler Joined: May 2013 Posts: 478 | I wanted to encounter if it's worth trying to use expanding foam on my cooler and alive well. My idea is that the temperature inside the hull of the boat is probably about x degrees warmer than water temperature (just a guess) on my 2005 nitro I noticed in that location's well-nigh no insulation. My ice melts pretty quick in one case sun comes out and live well temps ascent. If I insulate I think it would keep them a lot cooler. Has anyone done this earlier? Is the can expanding foam ok to use on fiberglass and plastic? | | Re: Insulating ice cooler and live well [Re: Burbarry] #13602427 06/21/20 01:32 AM | Joined: May 2014 Posts: 751 west tex angler Pro Angler | | Pro Angler Joined: May 2014 Posts: 751 | I put one of those small crushable coolers within of my boat's ice breast. Then I put in i or two of the freezeable chemical blocks in the bag with my drinks.. Keeps things cold for a very long fourth dimension since information technology is double sealed, one inside the other.
Try it, it works and keeps your boat ice libation clean. | | Re: Insulating ice libation and alive well [Re: Burbarry] #13602519 06/21/20 03:37 AM | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 6,266 SC-001 TFF Celebrity | | TFF Celebrity Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 6,266 | Easy quick fix, their not just for crude water https://www.facebook.com/bass/videos/10155602360170915/ Most of the oestrus comes from the metal latches. Some guys will put a soaked moisture towel of the livewell lids to, I hear VT2 vents work too Last edited by SC-001; 06/21/xx 03:38 AM. | | Re: Insulating ice libation and live well [Re: Burbarry] #13602569 06/21/twenty 06:22 AM | Joined: February 2015 Posts: 4,693 Flippin-Out TFF Team Angler | | TFF Team Angler Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 4,693 | I wanted to meet if it's worth trying to use expanding cream on my cooler and alive well. My thought is that the temperature inside the hull of the boat is probably nearly x degrees warmer than water temperature (just a guess) on my 2005 nitro I noticed in that location'southward almost no insulation. My ice melts pretty quick once sunday comes out and live well temps ascent. If I insulate I think it would keep them a lot cooler. Has anyone done this before? Is the can expanding foam ok to use on fiberglass and plastic? If you lot are putting it in the void of the hull, on the bilge side of the fiberglass, it won't injure. Simply, getting to it to practise a proper job tin can be next to imposible. ALSO, if yous put too much, where it can't aggrandize in other directions, information technology literally has the strength to crack fiberglass or plastic compartment lines and deform them. Exist very conscientious doing any of this. Y'all can expect to make a big mess that won't clean upwardly hands either, so the work surface area must be lined with paper to exist removed afterward. Don't let it go on whatever carpet; you'll never go information technology out. I volition never endeavor this due to all the drawbacks and unfixable screw-ups that could happen. | | Re: Insulating ice cooler and live well [Re: SC-001] #13602572 06/21/20 06:37 AM | Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: iv,693 Flippin-Out TFF Team Angler | | TFF Squad Angler Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: four,693 | I like the thought of a large wet towel over the livewell lids. The puddle noodle pieces is a decent thought, just if you are expecting to proceeds what dissolved oxygen you tin can by spraying water with an aerator pump, yous're going to defeat that with pool noodle material. It will be in the style as well much for water to be aerated to do whatsoever good. If you have a truthful oxygen dispenser system, it would work. But, a bass's head thrust upwardly volition separate two noodle logs and still hit the roof of the livewell. I'd recommend something amend than puddle noodle pieces. Cut TWO big pieces of thick flat foam that each are one/ii the size of the livewell footprint. You'd be able to get those inside the smaller opening, and they would float side past side. If cut to fit properly, they wedge against one another, and a bass's head can't hit the roof of the livewell. Yous could easily remove one of them to access fish to choose. On some of my boats from my days in due south Florida heat (simply not even so on the current one), I cut i inch thick closed cell foam board into "jigsaw puzzle similar pieces" that I placed in the roof of the livewell and on the lesser side of the lid. I used a few well placed dabs of silicone to do this after confirming each piece fit. I did this with the libation lid also. Both seemed to assistance a lot. It wasn't messy, and was removable. Last edited by Flippin-Out; 06/21/20 06:39 AM. | | Re: Insulating ice cooler and alive well [Re: Burbarry] #13602650 06/21/20 12:38 PM | Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 31,173 CCTX  mapquest | | mapquest Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 31,173 | If y'all don't plan on reselling the boat (keeping it in the family, etc) do whatever y'all desire
Expanding foam tin can be overly ambitious, the can spray expanding foam volition get saturated with h2o over time. The ii part expanding foams are better at not getting saturated, but can violently aggrandize causing impairment. For the cooler, consider a collapsible soft side cooler within the gunkhole cooler (cooler inside a cooler is expert insulation.) The best airtight cell foam I've used for projects like this that is readily available are the fatigue resistant interlocking flooring pieces widely available at Northern Tool/Dwelling house Depot/Lowe'southward They tend to be made out of either EVA or HDPE closed jail cell foam. | | Re: Insulating water ice cooler and alive well [Re: Burbarry] #13602921 06/21/20 04:01 PM | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,402 GROD Farthermost Angler | | Extreme Angler Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,402 | Freeze your own ice in a deep freezer. I use steel bowls, fill with h2o, place in deep freeze. Niggling tap h2o ran over them after frozen releases the ice instantly. You at present have a solid block of ice and non the inexpensive air filled ice from store. Apply hammer to break up a little if yous desire, and place in cooler. Solid block ice volition last the 24-hour interval in your boat cooler. I accept a 2006 188 gnaw and it concluding all day. Store ice is air filled is why it melts and then fast and in small pieces. Solid block ice will last. For the livewell I have no clue Terminal edited by GROD; 06/21/twenty 04:02 PM. | | Re: Insulating water ice libation and live well [Re: GROD] #13602991 06/21/20 05:15 PM | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: half-dozen,266 SC-001 TFF Celebrity | | TFF Celebrity Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: vi,266 | Freeze your own ice in a deep freezer. I use steel bowls, fill with water, place in deep freeze. Little tap h2o ran over them subsequently frozen releases the ice instantly. You now have a solid block of ice and not the inexpensive air filled water ice from store. Use hammer to break up a little if you desire, and place in cooler. Solid block water ice will last the 24-hour interval in your gunkhole cooler. I accept a 2006 188 champ and it final all day. Shop ice is air filled is why it melts so fast and in small pieces. Solid block water ice volition last. For the livewell I accept no clue Nigh guys will take gatorade bottles and freeze them with livewell additive already mixed in, only accept the top off an throw them it. They can/will beat your fish up though. | | Re: Insulating ice cooler and live well [Re: Burbarry] #13603124 06/21/20 07:39 PM | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,402 GROD Extreme Angler | | Extreme Angler Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,402 | I fish 2-three tournaments a year... and so not many see my livewells unless they're sandbass or crappie, and they striking the frying pan. I typically bass fish 95% of the fourth dimension though. | | Re: Insulating ice cooler and alive well [Re: Burbarry] #13603633 06/22/20 03:08 AM | Joined: Jan 2018 Posts: 2,561 Jeff From Iowa Extreme Angler | | Extreme Angler Joined: Jan 2018 Posts: 2,561 | I use a yeti cooler and utilize the built in cooler for my garbage tin can and tow rope storage. put a white towel over the yeti and it will stay ice cold all day. | | Re: Insulating water ice cooler and live well [Re: Burbarry] #13603643 06/22/20 03:sixteen AM | Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 3,538 David Burton TFF Team Angler | | TFF Squad Angler Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 3,538 | Cool the Water ice Chest with ice 24 hours before you lot are going to become out on the boat. Bleed and refill with ice that morning and run into if there is a difference in how absurd your ice chest stays all day....
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| | Re: Insulating water ice libation and live well [Re: David Burton] #13603704 06/22/20 07:40 AM | Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 4,693 Flippin-Out TFF Team Angler | | TFF Team Angler Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 4,693 | Cool the Water ice Breast with ice 24 hours before you are going to go out on the boat.
Drain and refill with ice that morn and come across if there is a difference in how cool your ice breast stays all day....
This made a huge departure for my boat cooler. It was a recommendation years ago from a hull designer at a major bass gunkhole factory. At that place is a lot of conductive mass in contact with the cooler shell, and information technology'southward all hot or at to the lowest degree ambient temperature to begin with. A lot of initial water ice loss is but cooling all that mass down. The second betoken would be to pre-arctic everything going into the cooler. Room temperature water/drinks should not become in the boat cooler if possible. Put them in the fridge overnight, or buried in ice in a second cooler, then transfer to the boat in the morning time and top over with water ice. I now put a couple of large "ice substitute" blocks in my libation with drinks first, then top off with water ice. A decent Ice substitute does get colder than 32 degrees, and it'south in a cake, then there are two legit reasons it volition stay colder longer. The inexpensive "blue ice" brand in University works great. | | Re: Insulating ice libation and alive well [Re: Burbarry] #13603775 06/22/20 12:13 PM | Joined: May 2013 Posts: 478 Burbarry OP Angler | | OP Angler Joined: May 2013 Posts: 478 | My boat cooler is tiny I tin fit virtually 10-12 cans (Never tried that many). I commonly just bring five-20oz water bottle 3 of them frozen ii cold then a sandwich there is some space left for almost ane bag of water ice which fills information technology to the top. Past dejeuner time most ice is melted and frozen h2o bottles are halfway thawed out. This is even afterward I added a plug on my cooler to help save the water in the libation. As for the alive well, I'one thousand not as worried about it as I can simply plow it on and should go along fish ok. I but wanted to make sure if I start angling tournaments that I would exist able to keep fish alive. As information technology is now I just fish for fun and never keep anything. | | Re: Insulating ice libation and live well [Re: Burbarry] #13603782 06/22/20 12:20 PM | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: one,472 TCB Extreme Angler | | Extreme Angler Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: one,472 | I was wondering the other day why boat/cooler manufacturers aren't applying some of the roto molded libation principles into coolers on a boat. | Moderated by banker-always fishing, chickenman, Derek 🐝, Duck_Hunter, Fish Killer, J-2, Jacob, Jons3825, Nocona Brian, Rockie Martin, Toon-Troller, Uncle Zeek, Weekender1
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