[at-l] Gear approval/recommendation (waterfilter)

[Cosmo.A.Catalano@williams.edu (cosmo catalano, jr.)]

Take your filter and Platy hose to your friendly, small, neighborhood 
hardware store.  They have many different sizes and types of hose. 
Find one that's soft and flexible (Felix-ible?) with a fairly thick 
wall that fits onto the output of your filter.  Get about 6" of that. 
Then, nearby you'll find drawers or bins full of little plastic hose 
connectors, find one that that has ends of two different sizes--one 
that fits the Platy hose and one that fits the new hose you just 
found.  Total cost will be about $1.50, tops.  I've got that set up 
for my Sweetwater and Platy and it works like a champ.  Keep the 
short hose in your "clean" ziplock, that's inside the ziploc you use 
to carry the rest of your filter.  I'd also recommend carrying an 
extra bite valve.  Since you take it off your Platy to fill up, if 
you drop it in the stream, get it lost/broken, your hydration 
"system" is just a big wet mess.

I also agree with an earlier poster about carrying a (virtually 
weightless) nylon water bag to fill at the water source.  Then you 
can bring it to the shelter, hang from a convenient peg, nail or tree 
branch and filter in comfort.  Keep the filter intake off the bottom 
of the bag so crud can settle and not clog your filter.

Cosmo

--Original Message(s)--

Message: 42
From: gwright@connix.com
To: Clark Wright <icw39@ncfreedom.net>
cc: Brian C Merrell <brian@patriot.net>,
    "Anderson, Paula_(MD)" <PMAnderson@apshealthcare.com>, at-l@backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [at-l] Gear approval/recommendation (waterfilter)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 15:55:56 -0500

Clark Wright writes:
> that can go in a platypus-type water bag . . . or use one of the 1-quart
> dip and sip bottles that have in-line filters . . . I used one of those,
> plus one other 1-Liter Nalgene in the winter, and switched over to the
> platypus with in-line filter in the summer . . . putting potable aqua
> tablets into the bag whenever I thought the water was especially dicey
> (the filter takes out most of the taste).

OK, I tried to mate my platypus with the safewater gravity filter
and had trouble because the filter attachment for the platypus
expected a hose with a different inside radius than that of the
safewater filter.

What am I missing?  How have others done this?
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