Self-evacuating vaccuum storage bags

[Fanum]

OK, if no-one's invented one, it's my idea right and I want the money. k???

Whatton had a vacuum bag thingy at Lehinch....I've seen similar ones on the crappy shopping channels that you stick soft stuff in then attach your hoover to, but I want one with a small hand operated pump on......a mini version of the pump that inflates airbeds but in reverse.....

Surely someone must make on..and if not, why the feck not...it's a brilliant idea!!

Thick rubbery plastic, ziplock seal, then squeeze the in built pump a few dozen times and voila, all your clothes are reduced by 50% volume for packing on the bike......

It's so simple and obvious yet I can't find any ....anyone know of a supplier or should I patent the idea quickly???

 

[The Machine Cat]

http://www.packmate.co.uk/products.htm

I have been using such products for years... You just have to compress the bag and the air gets out...

No need for a vacuum cleaner...

 

[trotsky]

There is an easier answer, and it came in a box with one of them big vacuum cleaner evacuated bags that I bought on Sunday:

Bag, roughly two foot by three, with at one end the ziplock seal as described and at the other five evenly spaced "one way" valves (oh all right, floppy plastic tubes).

Insert gubbins to be stored from ziplock end leaving a foot or so spare, seal, and roll up from ziplock end. compresing contents as desired. All the air farts out of the valves leaving a beutifully shrink wrapped set of wooly pullies.

With the added idea of not having any moving parts to break, Mr Fanum's design to the letter.

See, the problem with us GSer's is that we're ideas people, we're not used to getting down into the nitty gritty fiddly detail. We're more the "broad brushstrokes of genius" types. Did James Dyson ride a GS? No, of course not. That's why he had time to design, prototype and build his bloody awful vacuum cleaners. He wasn't out bolting Touratech bits on to his motorbike...


EDIT - that's them, what he said up there above, packmate...

 

[judge]

Got mine from Touratech initially, then found them cheaper here

 

[Fanum]

That's the sort of thing, but i've yet to see one that uses anything more than rolling-pressure to evaccuate them...and that's what I want.....

There are matresses with pumps in that use in internal foot operated pump to pump them up, what I want is the same with a mini version of the pump but for it to push air OUT not IN.

Edit...that way, when you're done, you'll end up with a mini version of what you started with....rather than an oddly shaped stiff flat pack whose shape is as awkward to pack as the original shape although smaller.

I could make them so that they are the dimensions of the bottom of the average pannier once 'deflated'.

 

[Steptoe]

Whatton had a vacuum bag thingy at Lehinch....

have you seen the state of your clothes when you unpack them -

whatton was borrowing my iron all weekend in Lahinch

 

[Fanum]

have you seen the state of your clothes when you unpack them -

whatton was borrowing my iron all weekend in Lahinch

Exactly what I'm talking about...if you don't have to physically 'scrunch' the bag to deflate it, I reckon the clothes would come out much flatter and less crinkled.

 

[judge]

That's the sort of thing, but i've yet to see one that uses anything more than rolling-pressure to evaccuate them...and that's what I want.....

There are matresses with pumps in that use in internal foot operated pump to pump them up, what I want is the same with a mini version of the pump but for it to push air OUT not IN.

Edit...that way, when you're done, you'll end up with a mini version of what you started with....rather than an oddly shaped stiff flat pack whose shape is as awkward to pack as the original shape although smaller.

I could make them so that they are the dimensions of the bottom of the average pannier once 'deflated'.

There are much bigger bags for storing clothes, duvets etc which you connect to your vacuum cleaner which sucks out the air, we have a few in use for long-term storage they are too big for M/C use though you might still get 2 in a Vern pannier and the vac

I guess you want these but a tad smaller