Drying boots of flooded drysuit - solutions?

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DIY for me. 1½" PVC. Bottom frame glued. Legs slip fit in. The feet have 90° elbows and a short stub.
Slip the legs into the suit and invert the suit, feet up. Slip the PVC into the base.

The base is glued and capped PVC, with a shower floor drain added. A super cheap, super quiet, super low energy 12V computer cooling fan is glued to the drain cover. Random old power supply runs the fan. Doesn't move a lot of air, but what little it moves is enough to dry inside the suit overnight.
 
Also the TriDri:

I have a set of two TriDris and they are great. Two units fit into my Santi Drybag under the drysuit. You don't need a separate hanger, just set your drysuit feet up against a wall.
I use a small 6000mAh cell phone battery bank to power them. That lasts for a few hours, enough to dry the suit completely.
DIY is a viable option, but I can recommend TriDry with its telescopic tubing for easy storage.
Using fans that can be powered with regular USB power like tridri fans is also a good idea to copy from TriDri. Power banks are cheap and make a super easy power source also when traveling.
 
I hang my suit by the boots and place my boot dryer hoses not the rear entry to circulate warm dry air through out the suit after 4 or 5 hrs the suit fries up pretty good also taking a fan and lying it down works
 
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My drysuit is right now drying in my bathroom exactly like this. The image from Antartic expedition is just much cooler.
The Tridri is a very simplistic solution, and it does it's job very well.
 
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The Tridri is very simplistic solution, and it does it's job very well.

I found that link that I posted a long time ago and kept a mental note, but never bought a TriDri. I just recall thinking it was a cleverly designed solution. I may still buy one (or two).
 
I may still buy one (or two).

Buy two if you decide to buy. That makes hanging your drysuit (like A against a wall) convenient. It also dries both feet at the same time, while chatting in scubaboard :)
 
I just hang it upside down by the boots with this kind of hanger, and place a small fan or--if the garage is cold--a small electric heater a couple feet in front of it so that dry air will waft up into the legs and feet. Works really well and surprisingly quickly.

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https://www.shearwater.com/products/perdix-ai/

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