[pct-l] Fwd: Camlbak All Clear

[marmot marmot]

My experience with a steripen is that they are unreliable.  I cannot worry about such problems. Need my filter to work right every time.  Sawyer squeeze is my new love.  Have an adapter to filter directly into my platypus.   I don't really squeeze it much. One bag seems to last about 800 miles.  It starts to leak around the neck where duck tape won't work to fix it 
Marmot

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> On Jan 5, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Tim Umstead <tumstead96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Actual I have used the Sawyer for several years; squeezing from both with
> the bladders and plastic water bottles.  I have also put one inline and
> just sucked through it.  My root problem is that I hike with my wife and
> two kids.  Each person carries 2L of water.  Do you realize how time
> consuming and tiring it is to squeeze 8L of water every time you have to
> fill up?  I'm looking at getting four Sawyer Mini's, but I just saw the
> Camlbak All Clear and I was wondering how well it works.  I do not like the
> SteriPen; from past experience.
> 
> I saw thinking of tossing the bottle and just using the top.  As long as it
> shines into a wide mouthed bottle for 60 sec. it will work.  It also
> recharges from USB which means that my external battery I take, for
> changing cameras and cell phones, will work here also.
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Dan C. aka Thumper <dofdear at cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Scott,
>> 
>> The Mini and Squeeze filters are the same thread as a standard
>> soda/smartwater bottle.  If you designate a 1/1.5/2 liter bottle as dirty,
>> then fill and squeeze into your clean receptacle.  You can even use a
>> Sawyer adapter on the output side to go directly into your Platy/Camelbak
>> bladder/reservoir hose.  As I said, there are several options, and without
>> the Sawyer squeeze bags.
>> 
>> Thumper aka dofdear
>> 
>> ---- Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Used the Sawyer on both the CDT and AT after struggling with steri pens
>> on
>>> the PCT that broke down or simply used batteries faster than I could keep
>>> them coming in my resupply.  The only drawback of the Sawyer is the
>>> weakness of their bags.  Used as a squeeze filter, I went through 5 of
>> them
>>> on the CDT.  They simply broke.  I was obviously too rough on them.  The
>>> threads are not exactly the same as a Platypus bag, which is much
>> tougher,
>>> although some folks can finesse the two so as not to leak by using a hose
>>> washer in the Sawyer, I could never get them leak free.
>>> 
>>> Then I hiked with Yoshihiro Murakami in the Winds and Glacier in 2013 and
>>> he had rigged his Sawyer as a gravity feed.  It's simply done by cutting
>>> the hose of a Platypus hydration system bag (
>> http://www.amazon.com/Platypus-Hoser-Hands-Free-Hydration-System/dp/B001KZGYMW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1420488514&sr=8-2&keywords=platypus+water+bags
>>> ) leaving about 4 inches of tube coming out of the bag.  Connect the
>> Sawyer
>>> mini filter onto the stub of tubing and then connect the longer section
>> of
>>> tubing onto the outflow of the Sawyer, cut off the mouth bit and voila! a
>>> gravity feed that is cheaper and lighter than the one that Platypus sells
>>> and easier to use than the Sawyer squeeze.  A hybrid that works.  Also,
>>> because it is also softer on the filter than I when I used to squeeze
>> down
>>> on the bag by hand, that any particulates in the water aren't forced too
>>> deeply into the filter and are easier to back flush out of the system
>>> during cleaning.  I used this system on the AT this past summer and love
>>> it.  Simply fill and hang the bag and step back.  The rest of the work is
>>> done by gravity.
>>> 
>>> Shroomer
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Dan C. aka Thumper <dofdear at cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Tim,
>>>> 
>>>> As an alternative to UV consider the Sawyer Mini filter.  Costs and
>> weighs
>>>> less.  No wait time. No batteries.  Probably more reliable.  Easily
>>>> adaptable to many hydration configurations and strategies.  Check out:
>>>> 
>>>> http://sawyer.com/products/sawyer-mini-filter/
>>>> 
>>>> and the alternative Sawyer Squeeze:
>>>> 
>>>> http://sawyer.com/products/sawyer-squeeze-filter-system-sp131/
>>>> 
>>>> Thumper aka dofdear
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Tim Umstead wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone had experience with the Camlbak All Clear?  I have had
>> multiple
>>>> SteriPen and all of them have failed, before I left the house.  I'm
>> looking
>>>> for something else.
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