Different uses for enema equipment

Most of us have heard of things being converted (perverted?) into improvised enema equipment. Let's go the other way. What have you seen enema gear being used for other than enemas?

I'll start. Once at an outdoor shooting range I saw a guy using an enema bag to clean his muzzle loader. Had an adapter to screw into the bolster for the nipple, hooked it up, started the water and used a patch to clean the bore.

Who can top that?

My red bulb enema with the hard plastic nozzle is a regular workshop tool, used for blowing brick dust out of holes drilled in walls to mount various objects like shelves and brackets.

South Africans, by and large, live in brick or concrete block houses, so it isn't easy to fit a bracket, say, to mount a power tool battery charger or a hook to stop a door banging in the wind when open (blows like stink here). A masonry bit and an impact power drill does the trick to put a screw in, but leaves a hole full of brick and mortar dust. Insert bulb, step aside, squeeze smartly and the hole is clear!

The bulb can also be filled with water and used to clean out that tricky little drain channel at the back of the auto defrost fridge when it gets blocked with nameless grey food gunge.

The metal enema cans used primarily in hospitals make excellent flower pots. You can fill a combination bag with air, cover it with a soft cloth and use it for a pillow when camping.

I have used a bag to put water into a lead acid battery!

After all, what is an Ebag but a rubber funnel?

The bag and hose are very handy for watering my plants. You can aim the water where it is needed with out spilling it and making a mess.

Back in the early 50's windshield washers were just coming on the market. A newspaper ran an article about having your enema bag on the floor, hold the nozzle pointing to your windshield and pump away. It even had pictures.

I believe I seen in an old movie of a married couple talking like in or around a kitchen/dinning room area, and the woman saying something about recycling her bag that sprung leaks, and had it hanging above a hanging plant, watering it.

Can't remember the name of the movie, who was in it, or any other details about it. Maybe someone else can add some more information on this...

I do not know about the movie but I actually have seen an enema bag being used to water plants---it was hooked up to a long colon tube with holes all down the side and arranged to water about 6 pots in a tier arrangement

this happened when I worked as a plumbers assistant--it was in the apt of a young lady lawyer-I was truly amazed she left it like that----

I never had guts enough to call her up----alas

badger

If i recall the original water pack used by hikers and bikers was a hot water bottle conected with a hose. Even though it was new it grossed everyone out and the inventor came up with the current version.

Watering plants!! That's an excellent idea, hadn't thought of that.

Thanks!!

C

It was a very old movie... like popular Doris Day / Jack Lemmon era. If I recall the husband thought the wife was cheating or something, mentioning that her 'thing' was missing. And he did refer it to her 'thing'. Then she went on to say something like it had sprung so many leaks that she had to retire it, and then pointed to it hanging above her hanging plant.

Ads for vintage enema cans on e_Bay sometimes promote them as planters or flower vases. I know of a couple cases where this is actually done.

I saw one time the pool cleaning guy using a combo bag with a hose and nozzle walking around the pool with it spraying the edge with something

Mike

In the move Please Don't Eat the Daisies, right at the beginning, the kids were using an enema syringe to fill balloons.

JB:

The movie you and at least one other person are referring to in your post is Freebie and the Bean. 1974. It starred Alan Arkin, James Caan and Valerie Harper. The Alan Arkin character thought his wife, played by Valerie Harper was cheating on him because her "thing" was missing. When he confronted her she showed it to him hanging from the ceiling over a house plant. I sometimes wonder why I can remember stuff like this and I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. I wonder, I wonder.

"I sometimes wonder why I can remember stuff like this and I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. I wonder, I wonder."

Maybe you need an enema. 😁

For years I have used a closed top bag to maintain the water level in our Christmas tree base. We still like a live tree. It was difficult to get under the tree with a watering can, but this works perfectly--easy control and no spill. Steel, Akron, OH

Yep...I live in the Bellevue, WA area and used to race an Islander 30 on Lk Washington. One of my crew's wife was a nurse and she brought a hospital plastic Hi-volume enema bucket aboard to use as a wine server. (White wine, of course...red can stain.) It worked and we had a lot of fun with it.

She always threatened to give us all enemas at one time or another but she never did. (Oh drat.)

Yep, 1 job ago, I was friends with the drafts person. She admitted to using her's to defrost the freezer in her icebox. You don't hear about that these days since most are frost free.

R

I like the christmas tree idea. Never thought of that one 😁 Maybe we'll try it out this year.

Hey Chucky...

That was the movie! I can remember it now after you provided more details. One of many funny parts of the movie. I still have that movie on VHS somewhere here. Going to have to dig it out and watch it again. Haven't watched it in ages. It's a really great, funny movie overall.

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I saw one time the pool cleaning guy using a combo bag with a hose and nozzle walking around the pool with it spraying the edge with something

Mike

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Mike,

Maybe he was hoping the women in the building would see him there and get ideas about a little visit for hanky panky? 😉