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Just made this and it was super easy. No more pumping, no more taking the camelbak bladder out of the backpack to fill it up, no more yanking off the bite valve to quickly drain the camelbak bladder for cooking water or washing water or whatever. Steps: 1. Get https://amzn.com/B005SO8SPC, and https://amzn.com/B00FA2RLX2/, and https://amzn.com/B00EURFBKI/. You could do it with a lifestraw, or platypus waterbags, or pick your QD fittings out from the hardware store, but this Just Works. 2. Cut a ~5cm piece of hose off your camelbak hose, around 10cm from the bite valve 3. Insert QD fitting to camelbak hose, female QD from bladder, male from bite valve 4. Insert the second male QD fitting on one side of 5cm piece of camelbak hose 5. Attach other end of the 5cm hose to the discharge side of the Sawyer filter 6. In the 2x 64oz waterbags, cut 2 holes in each corner (NOT in the bladder area), thread ~50cm (or more) paracord or string or wire through it, connect the cord (I just looped 2 bowlines), now you can hang the bags from branches. 7. (Optional) Zip tie all hose barbs, for extra strength 8. (Optional) Mark bags as DIRTY 9. (Optional) To prevent paracord from fraying, epoxy the ends 10. (Optional) Use the Sawyer filter as a duct tape holder. Just wrap it up with as much as you think you'll need for field repairs. Post your DIY hiking equipment.
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Why are you hiking in your house?
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Jul 20, 2016 09:17
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Picnic Princess posted:Why are you hiking in your house? Oh don't worry, it's not my house.
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Not quite your idea of DIY, but I expedite water collection by keeping my Sawyer squeeze filter thingy super clean. How? With this wonderful chemical!!! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CTQKFVC/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I've been using it for about half a year (for a variety of things) and it's simply the best destroyer of organic matter, not just because its powerful, but because it leaves nothing behind. Sawyer recommends bleach, but that will leave a taste. So yeah, I run hydrogen peroxide diluted with hot water through mine and let it sit a couple hours, keeps the flow fast enough that getting water isn't frustrating. Cool project you got there though. Thanks for starting a DIY thread 
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