Home Made Water Filter

[Pict]

I made up a short video that describes the simple home made water filter I've been using for the past eight years in Brazil with very good results.

The filter costs about $3 to make. It must be used with a chemical method or boiling to make the water safe. This filter will remove a great deal of suspended material, small organisms, and make the water clearer but it DOES NOT IN ITSELF MAKE THE WATER SAFE TO DRINK. It does greatly increase the effectiveness of either iodine or chlorine and it makes water of questionable quality much better tasting.

Home Made Water Filter

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Mac

[nell67]

Awesome video Pict,as always great information!!!!!!!!Thanks.

[crashdive123]

As always, another great video. Thanks.

[Runs With Beer]

Great post as allways, Keep up the great work.

[welderguy]

Great Info Thany you.

[RunsWithDeer]

Very well put together, and the real life use backs it up. Great post.

[nell67]

Pict,how often do you have to replace the fiber and the carbon pellets?

[last one standing]

wow great video i liked the bird trap also on you tube

[Pict]

Pict,how often do you have to replace the fiber and the carbon pellets?

That all depends on how dirty the water is that I've been running through it. The wad at the top gets pretty dirty fairly quick if you have alot of suspended, visible material in the water. You can take it out and wash it in clean water if it gets too bad but I normally carry some extra wadding and just replace it.

The charcoal pellets last a long time I replace them once or twice a year. I have tried it with crushed coals from my fire and it works well. Make sure the coals are fully burned and don't have any white ash on them. The pellets are more uniform and have been greater surface area available in their carbon matrix.

The activated charcoal does a good job of filtering out cloudy clay and dirt when streams are swollen from rain. How long it lasts depends on how much of that stuff you drained through. If I end up using really bad water I'll change it when I get home.

I wouldn't try to filter mud through this thing. If your water is that bad then strain it through a bandanna or something before running it through the filter.
Mac

[nell67]

Thanks for the info Pict!

[Riverrat]

Very nice...great stuff as usual...and I had a question, but I see Nell has already asked it...

[hoosierarcher]

You should thread the top so that you could screw on a 2 liter soda pop bottle as a resevoir on top for your yet to be filtered water. Rig it to hang from a branch over your billy can or pot that you will boil it in. Just a thought.

[Pict]

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Here's a shot of the larger filter I use with groups. We normally hang a five liter bag in the middle of camp and keep the filter jammed on a stick. This way the guys can just filter as needed. The bags we use have a neck which fit inside the top of the filter so all they have to do is lift up on the bottom of the bag until it starts draining.

Each pair of guys takes turns keeping the camp water-bag filled. Mac

[primeelite]

Great video, watched a few others a couple days ago as well. All have some good information without all the hoopla you find on some of the TV shows on now.

[Gray Wolf]

As usual, very informative Mac.

[primeelite]

Pict, you should make your own website and host you own videos on it so you retain all the advertising and can gain viewers that you could send out mass emails to every time you post a video and not have to put up with all of Youtube's stuff.

[Pict]

The thought has crossed my mind. I actually have a project in the works. No idea when I'll be finished... Mac

[dixgomez]

I made up a short video that describes the simple home made water filter I've been using for the past eight years in Brazil with very good results.

The filter costs about $3 to make. It must be used with a chemical method or boiling to make the water safe. This filter will remove a great deal of suspended material, small organisms, and make the water clearer but it DOES NOT IN ITSELF MAKE THE WATER SAFE TO DRINK. It does greatly increase the effectiveness of either iodine or chlorine and it makes water of questionable quality much better tasting.

Home Made Water Filter

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Mac

That is a great idea on making a home made water filter man.... for just a $3 and got one....


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[crashdive123]

Dixgomez - you cannot include a link to your site in the body of your post. How about filtering on over to the Introduction section and tell us about yourself. Thanks.

[bulrush]

Thanks for being specific Pict on what this does and does not do. Since I got giardia one year I'm a bit picky about my water purification methods.