Homemade JBL-style enema bag.

What are anybody's thoughts and ideas on building a JBL style enema bag from scratch?

It can certainly be done. After all, it was done with the tooling and materials available 100 years ago. It would not take much more than a simple lathe and drill press and hand tools, plus the capability of sewing rubber coated fabric sheeting. The hard part would be the neck and stopper, which could be taken from a hot water bottle.

I've been looking for a six quart bag for years. The JBL was the only one, but they're long gone. I have seen vintage ones for sale on Ebay but they are old, brittle and unusable.

My thought was to take a 6 quart closed top bag. Drill a hole in the middle of one side. Take a bolt that has rounded edges so sitting on it would not damage the rubber inside. Construct a screw on ball or gate valve with nozzle to fit over it.

A 2 litre rubber hot water bottle with a stick on 'tit' (the type that replaces motor cycle tits on the tube)

There is another thread titled "Home made JBL Cascade Bag" in which I submitted this post:

"Yes, I made one about 25 years ago. I had seen JBL Cascades in E magazines and nobody was reproducing them at the time.

I cut a section out of a new inner tube, folded the ends over and glued them with rubber cement. But the trick was to make a way to get a nozzle fastened to it. Being a machinist, I had access to a lathe and made the round parts required out of black medical-grade delrin. This included the flange that was attached permanently on the top of the bag, and the nozzle that would plug into it. After the bag was filled, the nozzle would snap into the flange and had an O-ring on it to seal up snugly and not leak. Also, I knew that back pressure could force contaminated water back into the bag, so I included a check valve inside the nozzle when I made it.

I had guessed about how large to make the bag, and it ended up holding a little over 3½ quarts. Close enough.

It's held up well. I still use it to this day."