Better Than a Yeti Cooler? Insulate your cooler cheap!

so last time we're out on the trail on this thing I noticed two things one everybody had a rooftop tent two everybody had on the back of their rigs their Instagram handle and three everybody had these really expensive coolers so we're gonna show you how to do all those three things right now so if you haven't already be sure to hit that subscribe button down below and give this video a great big thumbs up and check out this little project we're gonna do so I went online to go buy a rooftop tent turns out they're really expensive like over a thousand dollars so a plan B rooftop tent Instagram accounts are free so this shouldn't be too hard so here's my current cooler it's a regular Coleman cooler it's been great I've had it for over 15 years it's still holding up well but I want to see what the difference was between this cooler and the really expensive coolers so if you go in some of the other channels there's actually one where they cut this thing in half and they cut one of the expensive ones in half and I've got that link in the description below if you want to check it out but what it comes down to really is a couple things one the wall thicknesses are a little thicker on the big ones too these have foam insulation inside the walls but the lids are actually hollow there's no foam up here inside the lid and then the third thing is they say these ones are bear proof or actually the expensive ones are bear proof this one obviously not so bear proof so we're gonna tackle the things that we can on this cooler to make this cooler as close as we can to some of these coolers that you can spend four or five hundred bucks on now the easiest thing on this cooler to change is here and take off this lid so we can work on and now we have the lid loose so we can work in there so what we're gonna do is we're gonna figure out a way to put some insulation inside this lid now the stuff we're going to be using to insulate the lid is this this is great stuff expanding foam it's pretty cool stuff you can spray it inside through the little hose that it comes with and it'll expand out and fill all the little crevices so go ahead and pick yourself up some of this you can get it for four or five bucks at your local hardware store I've also got a link for it in the description below so the next thing you're gonna do you're going to get your little straw applicator and pick out a drill bit that's a little bit bigger than that straw applicator and we're going to go into all of our tall areas here and just drill a little holes just big enough that we can get that straw through and spray foam around so we're gonna drill some holes so with all those holes drilled the next thing we have to do is spray this stuff in there now this stuff is pretty awesome it expands a lot but the one thing I will caution you about is if you get this stuff on your skin you're in for a bad time it's not gonna hurt or anything but it is darn near impossible to get off so try your hardest not to get on your skin if you want to wear gloves I'm not gonna wear gloves I'm just gonna try my best not to but if you start getting foam out of the holes don't pick at it until it's dry once as dry it's really easy to break off but when it's wet it just makes a terrible mess so we're gonna give it a good shake and start getting it inside all these holes [Applause] [Applause] [Music] and now you'll see it will start to expand and come out all those holes and that is normal this stuff is expanding away while it's in there you want to let it completely dry before you do anything else with it so just let it sit let it expand it'll fill up all those crevices insulate your cooler out real nice and then we will chip off the foam that's come out of the holes so I've let the foam cure up for about 24 hours now it is good and hard you want to make sure this is good and harden all the way through you don't want it soft in the middle because when you start prying these things off you don't want goop to get all over your hands now it's pretty easy from this point just start picking off the foam they came out through the holes so he took some time to really scrape everything off there's still little bits here in there and I'm gonna finish getting that off but here's a little tip if you can't get it off with the chisel get a scraper a brush like this a barbecue brush it really helps break up some little bits of foam so now with our lid insulated we need to worry about these holes and you don't want moisture to get in those holes and grow mold inside your lid so you want to seal them up with something you can give a blob of hot glue in there whatever you do do something food safe can get food safe silicone or something along those lines fill up those holes you don't get moisture inside your lid so after you do that we're just gonna put the lid back on the cooler and we have two more things we got to take care of after that all right so we've got our cooler here and it is insulated from the top now so that's taken care of we've got better insulation one of the other things those real expensive coolers claim is they claim that they are bear proof now it's gonna be kind of tough to make this thing bear proof where is it I have an idea if it works for other areas I figured it would work here too so we met ourselves a little no bears logo right here on the 3d printer and we were gonna stick that right here on the cooler so all the bears know this is a no bear cooler that ought to keep them away so now that we've got our extra insulated bear proof cooler we want to make sure that people don't get this thing confused with it's much more expensive brethren out there so we made this little logo to avoid any confusion not a Yeti and we're gonna stick that thing right here on the front so we don't confuse anybody with our new sweet hi-tech cooler now if you want to get these logos and you don't have a 3d printer I do have a link in the description below where you can download the files and I'm gonna try to find a place they can actually print these for you too so check out the description below so if this video helped you out at all please give it a great big thumbs up leave a comment down below let us know what other kind of projects that you want to see and make sure you go outside and have some fun this weekend go outside and use your cooler have an adventure thanks a lot for watching

Channel: DoItYourselfDad

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Length: 7min 55sec (475 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 05 2018