Two Little Filters

[GeneralLee10]

http://aquamira.com/consumer/frontier-pro-filter-system/choose- (http://aquamira.com/consumer/frontier-pro-filter-system/choose-)http://www.sawyerproducts.com/SP121.htm (http://www.sawyerproducts.com/SP121.htm) right (http://aquamira.com/consumer/frontier-pro-filter-system/choose-right) Have any of you looked at these items? If so what is your input on them along with the drops/house hold bleach? One or the other could be a very light filter system in combo. Hhmmm:-? 1 million gallons is alot and bleach is cheep, sure you could get it at almost any store.

[GeneralLee10]

I just found this video on using the Aquamira filter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYWoplv_Uo&feature=related Not a bad idea at all I think.

[Snowleopard]

These will both work. With the aquamira filter, I think you need to use chemicals; it filters out giardia and cryptosporidium but not bacteria. I don't like the lack of specifications at aquamira; I can't find where they say how small it filters.

Jason Klass has lots of good ideas.

I have the Sawyer filter; the filter alone weighs about 3 oz. It filters out giardia, crypto and bacteria. I'll be making a gravity filter similar to Jason's. Ray Jardine also shows a similar idea with a simple way of making a dirty water bag out of a 30" diameter circle of silnylon with straps on the circumference to hold it.
Doing it over again I'd get: http://www.rei.com/product/781790 because it has the adapter for backwashing, screwing it onto a bag, and more tubing.

[brooklynkayak]

Have any of you looked at these items? If so what is your input on them along with the drops/house hold bleach?

I have used the frontier pro, gravity combination as per Jason Klass' video. Only difference is I use Aquamira drops for my chemical.

It is a light, reliable and inexpensive combination. If the filter should break, I could just use the drops. If the drops should leak, I could just use the filter.

I have fouled the filter on some cloudy water, but was able to reverse flow the gunk out. It works like new again.

The filter has a far smaller surface area than the bigger, heavier filters, so I wouldn't expect it to filter lots of cloudy water.

The Frontier Pro is on sale at:
http://www.themountainhideaway.com/store/product.asp?s_id=0&prod_name=Aquamira+Frontier+Water+Pro+Filter&pf_id=PAFBADKHAAHOOFGH&dept_id=3203&mscssid=KM2NHJM00TK78P3R1RUVS8H93NCTEQVA

[counselor]

I just found this video on using the Aquamira filter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYWoplv_Uo&feature=related Not a bad idea at all I think.

great video, thanks

[Rocketman]

These will both work. With the aquamira filter, I think you need to use chemicals; it filters out giardia and cryptosporidium but not bacteria. I don't like the lack of specifications at aquamira; I can't find where they say how small it filters.



The back of the Aquamira Frontier Pro package states that it filters down to 3 microns. That is small enough to get quite a lot of the bacteria out, but not virus. For bacterial smaller than 3 microns, the packages suggests chemical treatment (guess what?).

Virus requires a smaller pore size, and I have forgotten the commonly quoted size.

[Snowleopard]

The 0.1 micron size of the Sawyer filter won't filter out virus. Sawyer has a heavier, more expensive filter that filters down to 0.02 micron that is supposed to filter out virus.