jamiboy
Starting to settle in
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Post by jamiboy on Jun 28, 2012 7:15:20 GMT -7
Several months ago I came across some plans for building a homemade purifer that was basically just like a Big Berkley purifer. I brought a 7" Doulton candle filter, a spigot, and a couple of buckets for around 30 dollars. Since the Big Berkley goes for around $200 I was quite pleased at myself on saving so much on my little DIY project. I put it together and found the nastiest water I could find to test it out and it came out good and clean. The problem was I would have died of thirst before I had enough to drink because it is slow, as in hours and hours slow. The lower the water level drops, decreasing the pressure, the slower it gets. Since this is a gravity feed system, I have been thinking on ways to improve its performance. I've seen systems that include a pump but the ones I've found also are a little expensive and it defeats my whole purpose of it being a DIY project in the first place. What I have came up with is maybe using a 3 gallon hand sprayer and installing the filter inside of the sprayer. Since the sprayer has a built in pump, there will be no need in trying to keep up with a seperate pump (lord knows I can't keep up with anything anyway). When the filtering process slows down all I'll have to do is give it a couple of pumps to get it going again. It'll be a more self contained system and take up less room if I have to pack up and get moving and space is limited. Any thoughts/ideas?
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Post by mountainmark on Jun 28, 2012 14:11:39 GMT -7
In the backcountry we used to have a hand pump filter with three chambers. Just had to stick the hose in a stream and you were good to go. I wish I knew where to get my hands on one of those now.
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Post by heysmithy on Jun 28, 2012 18:47:39 GMT -7
I would think a gravity filter would be fine if you are staying put, as long as you have it hooked up to a large enough reservoir. And if you are on the move, you're not going to want to carry a 3 gallon container anyway, at least not on foot.
This would make an excellent solution for a BOV or a canoe trip or something like that.
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