Interesting! …what is activated charcoal? and I’m curious about the chemicals. Are you okay with ingesting chlorine? …and how does adding chlorine make water taste better?
I’m curious about the iodine pellets too. I understand iodine is added to salt for heath reasons (I’ve forgotten exactly why; it prevents something?!?) anyways could one ingest too much iodine? I am concerned with the additives of municiplal water and want to know if your filter system would remove them.
thanks!

How smart is that !
Outstanding info !

Indeed. Got my project for tomorrow.

cool

Yep thanks for sending it along my friend pretty good stuff… just like he said a fish tank filter in a tube…. cool!!

Hey I like your videos and I am now a subscriber. I think this filter would work great! Do you recommend Iodine or Chlorine? I am leaning toward Cl because it can dissapate over time. Any advantages to either?

There are pro’s and con’s to both. I can’t really comment on the long term health effects of either. I haven’t noticed any. You should know how to use both.

Iodine – Tastes funny, reacts with starches. Taste and reactivity can be eliminated with ascorbic acid. Stains water bladders. It is very common and easy to find as a 2% solution. Very inexpensive.

Chlorine – Tastes better doesn’t react to food, dissipates over time, won’t stain water bladders. In liquid form it will leave white spots on clothes and gear if you’re not careful.

I use Chlorine tablets personally (Clor-In 1, made in Brazil) but when I teach survival I teach the 2% Iodine method because they will be able to buy it in any pharmacy in Brazil for about $1.50.

looks like a great bit of kit, thanks for sharing! could you possibly share a rough parts list? particularly, what is the coupler and reducer referred to at the hardware store?

The parts aren’t hard to figure out if you have a bin of PVC parts in front of you.

2 twenty mm pipe sections about 4 inches long

1 twenty mm pipe joint

1 twenty mm reducer. This part narrows the water flow

2 perforated plastic discs or screens to sit above and below the activated charcoal. You can make these out of soft plastic.

Activated charcoal pellets
Synthetic wadding

Hope this helped.