Gravity Feed Ceramic Filter Buckets - camping, fishing, survival, boil orders!

Description: Gravity Water Filter System Description:(2) 5-gallon food-grade plastic buckets(2) 4" low-profile silver-impregnated ceramic filters(2) filter socks to cover the filters, and extend their useful lives(1) spigot That's it! It's the simplest thing in the world! But it works. We lived out "in the boonies" in SE Asia for quite a few years, and used 7" long Sterasyl filters set up like this for our own drinking water. We would load the top bucket up with muddy, quite turbid water from the local village water hole, and after a short time, we could drink the water that flowed into the bottom bucket! (Note: If you catch rain water and run it through your filters to drink or make tea or kombucha, it tastes really nice!!) Some folks there bought the expensive stainless steel Berkey water filter arrangements, but we got the same pure water to drink at a fraction of their cost! This works for most any kind of water, with just 2 exceptions that I know of: 1. No salt water. It doesn't work, and will gum up the filters. 2. No water where a car or truck's radiator steamed up and mixed antifreeze with the water!!! This is deadly! These filters are produced here in the US, and are just as good - if not better - than the Sterasyl filters we used to use. They are rated at 0.2 micron pore size, so they will filter 99.99% of particles larger than 0.2 microns in size. They are silver impregnated, so they actually KILL bacteria and amoeba that try to swim through the filter with the water! There is a core of activated charcoal that removes bad tastes and odors from the water, too. 2 of the pictures are of a water filter I threw together last week when we had a boil order for our area of St. Louis. It went from a pile of 2 buckets and 2 filters to good water we could drink in under 1 hour! In fact, we had almost 2 1/2 gallons of water available in just under 1/2 hour. Pretty sweet! 2 filters like these used to last us 1 year, being used on a daily basis. If you use these filters with regular "city water", you probably DO NOT need the socks. They are mainly for when your only water source is a stream, pond, river, or anything like that where you will have dirt and mud to try to filter out, as well. If you need to use the socks, place the enclosed cloth filter socks over the filters, and secure with rubber bands. Take these off when they get dirty and rinse out, then pull back over the filters. When the surface of your ceramic filters turns brown, or when the water that SHOULD flow through them turns into a dribble, it's time to clean the filters. To clean them, run a dish cloth or old green pot scratcher lightly over the surface of the filters. The brown color (the layer of stuff that the filter stopped from coming through) will wipe off as you clean it with fresh water. As you rub them lightly with the cloth or green pad, the color will gradually change from dark brown to lighter brown to a light tan color. Now it's clean. Then I would use either a dish cloth or my hand to rinse the surface of the filters with clean water and then wipe down the inside of the bucket. Rinse with clean water, and refill with any old pond or river water again. NEVER use soap on either the filter socks or on the filters. The soap will RUIN them. You can speed up the filtering by making a siphon hose:Get 2 pieces of 5/16" OD clear plastic hose, and push one up over the threads on the bottom of each of the filters. Let them hang down in the bottom bucket so the ends rest on the bottom of the bucket. When clear water flows and covers the ends of the hoses, it will start siphoning water through the filters, and will speed up the filtering process. Technical Info: These filters will remove...99% Arsenic 599% Hydrogen Sulfide (Rotten egg odor - H2S)95% Chlorine and Chloramines99% bad taste99% bad odors98% Aluminum96% Iron98% Lead90% Pesticides85% Insecticides90% Rat poisons85% Phenols85% MTBE85% Perchlorate80% Trihalomethanes 95% Polyaromatic hydrocarbons100% Giardia Lamblia100% Cyclospora100% live Cryptosporidium (WRc Standard)100% Cryptosporidium (NSF standard 53)100% E. Coli, Vibrio Cholarae99.999% Salmonella Typhil, Shigella Dysenteria99.999% bacteria Dry Storage Life: indefinite.Wet Usage Life: about 1 year (depends on how dirty the water is you put in the top bucket!) SHIPPING:PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS NEEDS TO BE SHIPPED BY UPS - that means that if your address is a PO Box and you can't supply a street address, I'll have to cancel your purchase and refund your money.

Price: 119.95 USD

Location: Saint Louis, Missouri

End Time: 2024-02-05T23:33:38.000Z

Shipping Cost: 22 USD