Jim and List:
I have also seen the immersion heater used at rally campsites to produce
hot water for of course cleaning your mess kits and also that hot shower
in the field. They go great when you bring your duce, followed by your
400 gal "Buffalo", fully loaded with goodies to sell and trade.
I wouldn't pass them up.
Best Regards
Tim Conover
AMOY, China.
Jim Rice wrote:
>
> Immersion heaters are almost a relic from the past.....gone the way of the
> mess kit, which they supported.
>
> The immersion heater was used to heat large trash cans full of water. There
> was a series of three or four (I don't recall) cans. When you finished
> eating from your mess kit, you went to the cleaning station. You simply
> scrapped any remaining food into a regular trash bin. Then you dipped your
> messkit, with canteen cup, fork, knife, spoon all dangling from the handle
> of the mess kit into the can of very hot (if not boiling water). Typically,
> a large brush (same type the army used for cleaing toilets, go figure) was
> available to give the kit a quick, cursory scrub. You then progressed to a
> second and third (and I think a fourth) station of hot/boiling water. By
> the time you completed all the stations, you had a clean/sanitized messkit
> with very little effort.
>
> Of course, most kids in the Army today have never eaten from a messkit. The
> messhalls use paper/plastic products exclusively. I think the last time I
> ate from a mess kit and used a line of immersion heaters at a messhall was
> in 1983 at Fort Devens, Mass.
>
> About the only other use I've seen for immersion heaters since was to clean
> gasmasks. Again, the same concept applies. Several stations of dipping
> results in a clean mask.....of course, all filters, valves and other
> removable parts were taken out first.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jim Rice
> Immersion Heater Owner....never used.
>
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