Drying/Keeping equipment while in a dormroom..

[Fire0nIce228 1]

So hockey seasons starting at college, and we can't keep our gear at the rink, and I don't really want to keep my gear in my little dorm room, cause its all nasty stink! The only place I really can keep my stuff is in my bag in the trunk of my car..

Its definately not going to dry there. You guys got any suggestions for where or how I can dry out my stuff before I pack it up to keep it in my car or something I can do..I do have some space in the bottom of my closet..but like..the aroma would float up and smell up my clothes, which is not good..

I have new skates, gloves, elbows, and helmet, so that stuff doesnt stink yet so is there anything i can do to keep it from starting to stink..maybe that will help enough that i can keep it in my room..

??

[O-zone 0]

That's a tough one...

Your best option is to work on finding an understanding girlfriend with a big apartment and a poor sense of smell.

But that may take a while, so in the meantime the key is to prevent the smell from getting started. Having new gear helps, make sure to always play in fresh undergear, get that stuff into a laundry bag right after you play and that will make a huge difference in delaying or even preventing the dreaded gear-stink.

As long as your outer gear has not started to reek, you should be able to air it out and dry it overnight after playing.

Gloves can be nasty. If there is not enough time between uses to let them air and dry, buying a 2nd pair and rotating them can be a smart move as long as you can swing the $. It does pay for itself over time as each pair is used half as much, lasts twice as long...

Good luck.

[Gongshow11 1]

every dorm has a storage room, ask to use that, ive been using that since we cant move into lockeroom till an official date

[Fire0nIce228 1]

so they let you open up and air out all your smelly gear? I know thers like a ..janitor closet type of thing but i don't know if I'd be allowed to use it but thats a good idea, i could ask..

[Gongshow11 1]

i use RA storage on my floor, they never use it, just ask

[jimmy 194]

I just got back from visiting my daughter at her school, and dorm rooms don't have much room, but.... you could try a Shock Dr bag with dryer. It will certainly dry your equipment for you and reduce the smells. I hope you have an understanding roommate.

[rogue 0]

I'm facing the same problem, what I did is install some hooks on my bed loft and get a small clamp on fan. I hang my equipment up on the hooks when I get home at night and leave the fan on over night to help it dry. In the morning I toss everything into my bag put my bag in my closet. Also I built just a cheap, simple wooden shelf for my closet that my bag can just fit under, this allows me to still put things (laundry basket, shoes) in my closet and the shelf above the bag helps to block smell.

[the iceman 132]

Buy a "Hockey Tree".

[--notorious 0]

I was reading bout KOR and i found this i never used it but it might work.If its the right price i would try. http://www.korhockey.com/drypack.html

[Fire0nIce228 1]

Looks good for skates and maybe could stick it in the legs of my pants, but what about gloves, chest, and the rest..

I talked to my RA and we don't have anything like that in our dorms..

Might have to talk to the janitor or something ha

[Jim A 4]

any broken furniture? we had a closet with a hole in it that worked out well in my dorm..just put a fan in the back of it to keep some air going...

[hockeyshmockey10 0]

well im assuming there will be more kids on your team with this problem...

all of you could rent out a garage thing or a storage center. if you divided the cost it would be a couple of bucks a month

then obviously you could get girls over without having them puke

[A2rhino 77]

There is a new product out called zero oder it works great. www.zerooder.com

Also try this out. great idea for a dorm room. The hockey hangout.

http://247hockey.com/pd_hockey.cfm

[End_Of_Line 0]

Buy a "Hockey Tree".

i saw the hockey tree and then someone mentioned the shock dr bag with the fan and.....humor me here......i got on mspaint and quickly drew out something i thought of and now i'm going to make. everything is pvc pipe and could modded to use more than 1 fan....possibly 1 fan per hanger section. let me know what you think

[Sven 1]

Buy a "Hockey Tree".

i saw the hockey tree and then someone mentioned the shock dr bag with the fan and.....humor me here......i got on mspaint and quickly drew out something i thought of and now i'm going to make. everything is pvc pipe and could modded to use more than 1 fan....possibly 1 fan per hanger section. let me know what you think

Are you MacGuvyer? I really hope you can built that. Good luck!!

[End_Of_Line 0]

what would be so hard about building it? just some drilling, gluing and mounting the fan on the inside. and no i'm not macguyver...if i was it would have been made from parts of a jet engine, paper towel tubes and chewing gum LOL

[pantherfan 0]

That looks pretty good, but I can see the air just going from one end to the other and not down the arms of the tree, I'm really interested to see how this gos let us know how it works out please!

[End_Of_Line 0]

well you see, the bottom part of the main large section is sealed. around the fan will be sealed as well so the air only has one way to go out and that is the perforated hangers. thanks for the input...helps me find out if there are any flaws. it would have to help more than just hanging it on a plain rack.

[All Torhs Team 0]

I think of two things when I read this.

1) Man up, play with wet gear. I do.

2) Rent a storage area. If you get like 5 guys on your team to do it monthly, it can to expensive. I think it would work.

[hockeyshmockey10 0]

its not that he is playing with wet gear...he needs to air it out after he gets done playing in his dorm room. if he is going to be having friends over, im sure some of them might be shallow enough to freak out over the smell. i have a closet for my stuff after i dry it out outside, and then put it away in my closet. if i have a friend walk by and its open they usually freak out at the smell, obviously its just hockey stuff and i don't care but he might have a roommate and friends to think of

bottom line, storage place would be the best idea

[Sticks of Fury 0]

Just a wild idea but what about something like the equipment tree that you can hang outside your window.

[Quintin 16]

My pro team just uses hairdrier popped into drainpipes that holds the equipment on it. Smart idea and seems to work well too.

[NuggyBuggy 0]

Regarding that perforated hockey tree - I could be wrong but I don't think a 100mm CPU fan is going to be able to push enough air to get through all those holes over that kind of distance. How about an air compressor though ?

[KYHockey3 0]

Buy a "Hockey Tree".

i picked one of these up at my local meijers. they really are great for drying and airing stuff out. if u put a little fabreeze on them they dont stink up the room as bad.

i mean if you got this tree thing, you could just put a blanket over it when peopole come in the room and tyhey wont beable to complain about the smell till they find out your hockey stuff is under it.

[Fire0nIce228 1]

I dont have the room for a hockey tree, and all torhs its not the wet equipment, its the literally frozen equipment from leaving my bag sit in the trunk of my car during november - march. This isn't roller hockery, most ice rinks arn't warm enough to thaw out my stuff.