How To Repair A Handle On A 34 Oz Bubba Keg

The leaky mug part of my letter is 100% true. For four years, I've dealt with a leaky mug on my way to work. I'll reposition the gasket in the groove, and it volition showtime leaking again two weeks later.

I've seen their improved design. It too has a bottle opener on it.
I decline to buy the new one. The exchange below made me even more than determined. I now put a big beach towel on my lap and drink in such a fashion to straight any would-be shirt stain drips onto the towel.
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Dear Hubba Bubbas,

As a Suit Sales Associate at an upscale department store, my business organization is all virtually first impressions. Appearances are everything, and my apparel must be perfect for me to strike with a vengeance! I depend on my morning time cup of java to put the extra jump in my step, and that coffee is carried in my trusty Bubba Keg 34.

At night, I hop on my sleigh with my eight Alaskan huskies, and ride around my subdivision. We are 2010 Winter Olympic hopefuls. In the summertime months, I gum castor wheels on the rails. During these exercises, I enjoy PowerAde—it keeps the vocal cords moist, so I can holler "Mush! Mush!" at the elevation of my lungs. My Bubba Keg 34 holds all 32 ounces of refreshment, with room to spare.

Whether my drink is hot or common cold, I always trust my Bubba Keg 34. However, I've institute what I believe to be a design flaw in the cup itself. The hat features a circular seal that looks much similar a safety band, with non-compatible sections. The seal fits inside the unique geometry of the groove, which goes all the way around the lid. The orientation of the seal within the groove is crucial to sealing capabilities of the mug. Over time, the screwing and unscrewing of the cap, seems to ever-so-slightly unseat the seal, creating a leak correct below where my mouth goes.

The Bubba Keg becomes the Bubba Sieve. I get coffee drips on my shirts. I get PowerAde on my parka. It's a nightmarish carnival ride, and I need to become off.
Coffee stains are difficult to remove. Suddenly, the first thing would-be customers encounter is a drip in the shape of Telly Savalas' Kojak-shaped head, and not my welcoming smile. My laundry bills are on the ascension, and my suit sales are dwindling. Who really wants to purchase a adjust from "Mr. Coffeestain"?

The huskies no longer respect me—they won't mush. For the time existence, the Olympics are on agree, and I've put numbers 4 (Rocco), 6 (T-Os) and vii (the Fonz) out to stud.

What can be done? I can't proceed this way. If this keeps up, I'm going to be broke and out of a job. I'll be filling this thing at the soup kitchen and getting minestrone all over my parka.

Cheers,
Jerry Herman
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Annotation from "Melissa" at In-Zone, makers of the Bubba Keg, dated nine/xv/2008
Date: Mon, fifteen Sep 2008 xiii:10:44 -0400

Jerome,
Give thanks you for contacting InZone Brands, Inc. regarding our products.
We have designed new lids with a better gasket system. If you would delight send united states of america the lid & gasket we will replace the gasket and transport them back in their lid with a new gasket it if the size is available. If we do non have the right size or mode, I will transport them a replacement keg.

One time nosotros receive your chapeau & gasket nosotros will send out a replacement and please allow iv-6weeks for your replacement to arrive.

Please mail information technology to: (No PO Boxes)
Eva
InZone Brands, Inc.
2251 Corporate Plaza Park
Suite 200
Smyrna, GA 30080
Thanks,
Melissa
IN ZONE Brands, Inc.
Creator of The Bubba Keg, Abdomen Washers and Tummy Ticklers!
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My response, sent 9/15/09

Melissa,

Thank you for your prompt response. I notice it interesting that you lot inverse the design of the gasket. It sounds like I bought too shortly, and therefore accept the leaky design. You tin imagine the sting of buying a horse and buggy the 24-hour interval before the first Model-T came rolling downwards the street.

I only see one trouble with sending my leaky design chapeau and gasket, for you to come across if you accept the right size and style. That is, I am then out of a coffee mug with a lid, for the next six weeks. That is 6 weeks of lukewarm coffee from a Ziploc bag with a harbinger. That is 6 weeks of tepid PowerAde, and an as tepid fleet of huskies.

Is at that place, perhaps another solution? What about these words and numbers on the underside of the mug? I don't see any role numbers, lot codes, serial numbers, date codes, etc. Perhaps you have cleverly hid them. What about a photo of the mug? A photo of me with the mug? A photo of the hat? A photograph of me with the hat? A photo of the gasket? A photograph of the lid and gasket with the gasket "feeling a piddling leaky?" Permit me know if whatever of these will work. I have preliminarily booked some time with a photographer friend of mine, at his studio for a shoot.

I'1000 non trying to exist hard. It'due south just that when I bought this mug, I wasn't signing up for a leaker, nor a six week drinkable sabbatical.

When I bought the Bubba Mug 34, it was for 3 very important reasons:
one) Functionality-Hot or Cold!
2) Sex Entreatment--The Ladies dig a beau with 34 ounces of climate-controlled drink, in a container that appears to have information technology's breast puffed out like the biggest, strongest rooster in the barnyard.
iii) Shear Size. No one else had a 34 ounce mug that fits in a loving cup holder.

Let Me Know How Nosotros Fix All of This!!!

Jerry Herman
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No Reply. They could have easily sent me the lid if they cared. Don't buy anything from In-Zone (from my experience).

How To Repair A Handle On A 34 Oz Bubba Keg,

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