Upgrade Your Pelican Elite cooler | likewise on Yeti, Orca, RTIC, Siberian, Kong, Engel, Others
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Do an easy and quick upgrade on your Pelican elite cooler for less than $7 dollars in less than 5 minutes to make it water tight.
For the weather seal I used the following from the local home depot.
Grey D-Center EPDM Medium Gap Weatherseal Tape: www.homedepot.com/p/Frost-Kin...
Other colors such as White, Black, and Brown are available.
You can do the same type of upgrade to almost any other Roto-molded or high performance cooler of this type. Should work coolers such as: Yeti, RTIC, Orca, Siberian, Kong, Engel, Grizzly, and etc.
Should make your cooler water tight, create a better seal, and improve ice retention. Relatively cheap, quick, and works. Can be removed or replaced at any time without any damage.
Hope this video has helped you guys out, best of luck, and See you guys Next time!
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When the cooler lid sticks shut...just unscrew the drain valve to release pressure.
yep
did this last night and it works like a charm. No issues opening or closing and no longer leaks water when turned over or upside down. Thanks!!
This worked perfect and YES no leaks even on my 20 qt.
any trouble getting lid open after since 20qt doesn't have release valve?
This modification provides you that super airtight seal so that when you pack your cooler with dry ice, it gives you that good clean pop when she finally blows.
LOL. Everybody thinks coolers should be airtight.
@@fcal6758LOL, yeah, because it's true.
Thanks it worked great on my 70qt elite fills in the gap and seems to have a tighter seal.
Glad it helped
Great job with your video, thank you
Cool Tip! Thanks.
That's cool I thought about doing that myself..
Great video my friend. Never thought of this. It's a great idea
Nice, we have been using solid 3/4" solid PVC adhesive backed foam for years, and no one notices, but it sure works better than the thin flap style everyone else uses. Your lid looks slightly bowed near the middle lock area.
Yup I noticed that too. I think the extra insulation he puts is playing with the structural integrity. I don’t think it’s necessary
I find foam insulation to be too stiff and non conforming, as well as become flattened, so I took a hollow tubular peel-and-stick weather seal and made it into a loop, like a bicycle inner tube, by gluing in 3" of plastic soda straw, before attaching it in the lid. It works beautifully in my Igloo.
Have you tried to put another gasket on the Cooler side flange instead? Curious if it would help even more.
If you cover that split in the factory gasket the cooler can’t be used for dry ice. That is the reason it is not sealed. The dry ice has to off gas and if it is put into a sealed environment the pressure inside could cause the cooler to explode or at the bare minimum blow the seal out. Also it keeps the cooler from air locking when you try to open it.
That’s a neat theory and stuff, but that is not true. Even with that split it isn’t enough room for dry ice to vent. When you close the lid it create a water/air tight seal.
To let dry ice vent you would need a bigger gap or just a vent hole.
@@thisisacrummyname You are incorrect. Go to the Yeti site and read for your self.
That’s not a yeti cooler sport
That’s not a yeti cooler sport
That’s not a yeti cooler sport
Nice work. Can you do an LED lighting mod next, please? these coolers need a light.
Can you please tell me the what was the performance in ice retention between the upgrade vs the non upgrade cooler. Thanks
Robert Iturriaga not really much anything measurable. It’s mainly there for preventing water leaking out.
@@4thewinak Thanks for the reply
I noticed a major improvement after adding a gasket to my BMX25. Air will pump in and out of a cooler when being carried or if you sit on it or by the bellows effect of sloshing water. I'd say the improvement is close to 20%.
So how much / better is the ice retention with the upgraded seal? I couldn't believe how hard it was to open at the end of the video.
you should of done a before and after ice challenge.
I purchased a Maluna and never had a problem with any leaks .
Thinking of getting their 22qt to use for drinks when i go fishing but not sure if i should go with maluna or orca
I would have liked to see you test for leaking before and after as well as for ice retention.
Same here. A deficient seal is not a matter of opinion. If it leaks water, it leaks air.
The problem is that the Pelican gasket is SILICONE which is very resistant to degradation. The replacement gasket is not silicone and will degrade over time. If you want to seal the gasket into one continuous piece, just use McNETT Silnet (silicone seam sealer for tents, camping, outdoor equipment) to fuse the ends together. I don’t think the additional weatherstrip will improve insulation performance so I wouldn’t consider it an upgrade. Unless you are constantly knocking over your cooler and it HAS to be completely watertight. To open a sucked down lid, temporarily crack open the drain valve so allow air to enter through the drain (but no water to leak out). You will hear the hiss noise. All good to open.
For a stronger seal than simply butt-connecting with glue, I glued a short length of soda straw into the gasket to splice the joint.
It looks like you couldn’t open the cooler until the ice melted. Please explain exactly how difficult it was to open and how you did it. Of course you could open the drain, loose the cold water melt, and relieve the pressure. But what do you recommend?
The Lid doesn't always get stuck. It only happens when you let hot air into a really cold cooler (have a lot of ice), and let it enough time to cool. Won't happen for most people under regular use. I would actually recommend people leaving a 1/4 - 1/2 " gap on the seal, when install it such that it doesn't have this issue. It will still keep the cooler really tight.
@@4thewinak use the drain plus to depresure
An airtight seal won't make it impossible to open, just very slightly more difficult. If it's wet, it won't stick whatsoever.
Yeah the one problem with Pelican that no one seems to address there is no handle for the lid. Everyone seems to just grab the open latch. Is that comfortable? It seems like the single disappointing moment of the product.
That is true. for something carrying the pelican name i do think it should be better than it is. They have so much R&D at their disposal to do so.
It's pretty easy and natural to just pop the latch open a few degrees and use the bottom edge of the latch to lift the lid. I'm not keen to fully fold the latch back and apply that much force on the latch to open the lid.
The "pelican name"??? Crappy canoes and $hitty pedal boats. LOL!
How many days could it add to the cool ice retention?
That is the bottom line question.
@@jakemccoy he replied to one of the comments and said not really a measurable difference, mainly to prevent leaking.
At least one full day. 15% to 20% in my case.
Is it normal for the gasket to come dry with powder on it? Just received my pelican and the gasket is white powdery
Yeah happened for me too. Just took it off washed and wiped it down, the was fine.
Very common for rubberized materials, from wet suits to life rafts as well as inner tubes and balloons. Keeps them from sticking together.
Good video, but what practical reason do you need to upgrade a Yeti? It holds ice for 7 days. 90% of the time, my trips are 3 days or less.
will this prevent from leaking when tipped?
It should and if it doesn't it's not airtight and simply a waste of time and money.
The gap in the factory seal is so that you don’t get pressure lock.
Yeah could be, but i think some of us would like it better if it didn't leak when going over bumpy road. That way the trunks of our cars are not wet...
@@AK-lc8cp be a man and drive a truck...
It also allows the use of dry ice which requires a way for air to escape
FYI, 4thewin , et al... Pelican has a pressure-release valve, on the original Pelican Case(es), for electronics; so they have no excuse, for skipping that item. Left to my own assumptions, I would put my money on...corner-cutting! 💰
The "gap in the factory seal" is because they're too cheap to do it properly.
That's great but is that thing food safe or is it gonna be leaking toxins into the water around your food?
Great question. Never crossed my mind. Typically The food i carry in the cooler is in waterproof containers like Lock & Lock, so even if that were the case should be safe. In most cases should be safe as long as you're not drinking the water or using the cooler to carry ice that is to b used in drinks; which is not the case for me. Now i'm looking around to see if there are better seal options.
I bought an elite 80 quart cooler and i went ahead and purchased a 95 quart pelican gasket directly from pelican which is food grade safe for $9.95 with free shipping.
@@4thewinak What's the point of buying food-safe cooler and make them not just for a better seal. btw thx for the video.
EPDM, Virgin PTFE, polyurethane, silicone and viton are all food grade materials
So will the alcohol
My orca cooler seals perfect it creates a vacuum and you can't open the lid
My orca cooler leakes when you turn it on its side. Has since day one. Kind of annoying. I may have to try this mod
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Buy a Kong and you don’t have to worry about doing this procedure!
Next time you should cut the ends at an angle
Colton Wollschlaeger good thought. Never occurred to me until you mentioned it!
What do you mean by at an angle? In what way? About to try this upgrade myself! I would be very grateful for a response as I have to waterproof the cooler for travel in the back of an SUV over some very bumpy terrain!
@@DZlife the same way you would join floor trims or ceiling mouldings, you cut a 45 degree angle when looking "down" at the plane of the seal. Then when you join them, there's a longer distance between one side of the seam and the other than a straight seam.
@@DZlife For overlap instead of meeting end to end. Each end cut at opposite angles.
Better still, do what I did. Glue a 3" length of soda straw into the ends to splice the connection.
It amazes me how the manufacturing Co's QC missed the Very Noticeable Gap in these coolers. lol
I know. Very surprised
The gap is there intentionally for if dry ice is used, from my understanding. Won’t allow pressure build up
@@dylancromer5765 Designed in sloppy construction because the inferior closure system is incapable of venting pressure. Cost cutting measure.
@@UguysRnuts you have a better idea? Seems like a fine design to me. Their coolers can hold ice for a week with it as is...
@@dylancromer5765 Yeah, I do. Elastic closures like the ones Igloo uses on their BMX series which compress the seal but will still release pressure if necessary, is a far superior design than the rigid latches on the Pelican, for starters. Then there's the non-folding carrying handles which increase the exterior dimensions without providing capacity and the overhanging lid, 20% larger than the cooler below it. Really dumb. Pelicans are over styled and under engineered with the worst interior volume to exterior dimensions ratio of any cooler I've ever seen..
The gasket is gapped to allow dry ice to vent.
vtpcs yeah, I thought so, but I’ll never use dry ice in my cooler.
That’s not a big enough gap for dry ice to vent. Plus when you close the cooler it pretty much makes it air tight. For dry ice to vent you would need a larger gap or a hole.
I tape up the bottom part around where the gasket hits and use flex spray
Just coincidently it makes for cheaper manufacturing and lesser performance.
I have this cooler and the ice retention is JUNK! 375.00 and it’s worse than a 50.00 Igloo!
My $50.00 Igloo two years ago is over a hundred bucks now.
I just got my pelican 50Q in and I’m highly disappointed in that gasket. It looks like a dollar store gasket. My Kong 50Q has a much better factory seal
I know right!
A gasket on top of another gasket may seem better but it makes the whole setup inferior. No manufacturer of anything does that, because it is bad science.
Inferior in what way?
Bad "science" huh? LOL!
@@UguysRnuts Learn the hard way, and then return here.
Bad design. Why do they design a cooler with a lid that's a foot longer than the box??? You need four feet of space to store a three foot long cooler? And the mechanical closure latches are why one can't use dry ice safely.
My Igloo for a third of the price has elastic fasteners that would stretch under pressure to vent CO2. I added a gasket to make it air-tight and a couple other things like feet to get it off the ground and Reflectix on the bottom and it now keeps perishables for at least a week.