The blue screw on adapter is actually called "Cleaning Coupling" and is specifically designed to back clean this filter using a water bottle, so no need for the Smart Water cap itself but, that works too, I suppose.
In addition to using the blue adapter "cleaning coupling" with my smart water bottle, I use it to connect the filter to a hose and back flush. That works pretty well even on a thru-hike. Be sure to knock the filter while back flushing to dislodge the junk in the hollow fibers.
A lot of reviwers of the Sawyer Squeeze agree that to really get the filter completely clean is to use the back flush plunger that comes with the filter
Thanks for the video! I am looking for a water filtration kit and the Sawyer sounds great but I get hearing ppl complaining about the pouches! Glad you've shared a fix for this!
Super awesome video. I just got off the trail and had trouble backflushing. I gravity fed my Sawyer from the big bag and it stopped running even after back flushing. I'll definitely adopt this system.
I throw the bottle to bottle adapter away and just use the sports cap to connect to my smart water bottle. when full I give it a quick squeeze to backflush the filter.
Tip: Fill the Sawyer bag with the bottom half of a Smartwater bottle. Just cut the bottle in two. No dipping the bag in a stream required. Next, if you're squeezing the bag, that's not the best way to do it. The best way I've found is to put the full dirty-water bag into the nylon mesh bag which comes with the filter, with the filter attached to the dirty-water bag. Using a coupler, attach a clean-water container (Smartwater bottles are great) and let gravity do the work. You'll need to unscrew the Smartwater bottle from the coupler a bit to allow air to enter. Used this way, the Sawyer bags are very serviceable. Plus if you're using another Sawyer bag for your clean water, put a blue PepsiCola lid on it. Put a red CocaCola cap on your dirty water Sawyer bag. Blue and red will be your indicators as to which bag is which. Cheers.
I dropped the plastic one gallon bag while backpacking. It broke open, sawyer said they don’t cover it because I dropped it. Luckily my friend had a back up system
@@joel.ha. get a girlfriend who drinks Coca-Cola. And get another one who drinks Pepsi. At that point, filtering water will be the least of your concerns. :-)
Because the sports nozzle fits the tiny hole that the water comes out, similar to the syringe. Using the ring adaptor will not adequately push water through the hole at a high enough pressure to prevent channeling in the filter. Channeling will decrease the effectiveness of the filter. Happy hiking!
@@GregoryRobertsLx just not true. The Sawyer coupling works perfectly, it's intended purpose is partly for backflushing. The pressure has nothing to do with the fitting. In fact, one could achieve a greater pressure with a threaded fitting than without.
Really need to use the syringe. Fact is it takes A LOT of pressure to properly backflush the Squeeze. You won’t get enough directed pressure squeezing a smart bottle, or similar, with a semi-fitting sports cap nor with a bottle and threaded attachment. The website goes in-depth with the actual required force and why most of these other tricks aren’t effective
Could the filter not just attach to the water bottle and drink straight from the water bottle with the filter attached?? to skip the bag filling and filtering into the bottle?
You can use a smart water bottle or life water bottle as a dirty water container and thread the sawy on to it on the inlet side. Then you can drink right from the sawyer using a cap on the outlet side.
Very good video subject and very good presentation. Thank you very much for sharing this information I didn’t know about and that will help me a lot with the issues with my sawyer squeeze water filter. I liked your videos so much I just subscribed to your channel and gave you a like. Have you ever used the Katahdin be free and what are your thoughts about it? Thanks again for sharing this video. God bless you.
instant bidet over your cat hole. no need to pack out toilet paper. saves you 900 ounces. oh and also the adapters hole is bigger than my sports cap so the sports cap can push harder for that initial back flush.
Thanks for a good video! Question: I just purchased the micro Sawyer and I'm trying to make it filter by using gravity - it doesn't work. And I don't know why! I've connected one bottle to each end simulating having one with dirty water to be filtered to the other. The water bottle just hangs there, with no water passively sippering through. Suggestions?
If air can't get out of the clean bottle, then water can't get in. It becomes pressurized. The solution is to LIGHTLY thread it onto the blue coupler, just enough to keep it held, but loose enough to allow air to escape around the threads. I had the same problem and thought something was wrong with my filter. Loosening up the threads got it flowing.
So you don’t have to “lug around” a syringe to back flush, and use a sports cap instead, BUT you now have to carry around bitter bottle to fill with clean water or back flush…..
@@joel.ha. yeah they suck now. They break more easily, they don't stay open all the way, and they don't stay closed as well. I had one leak in my bag just the other day. This is true of all brands; even my contact lens solution bottle top sucks in the same way now.
@@tonywillingham8109 the CNOC bags are sold at many places, CNOCoutdoors, REI, etc. Just put CNOC bag into google. Spring is fast approaching though, so many things are out of stock currently.
The blue screw on adapter is actually called "Cleaning Coupling" and is specifically designed to back clean this filter using a water bottle, so no need for the Smart Water cap itself but, that works too, I suppose.
Exactly! Was going to post this since it should be more obvious
I don’t have one of these and never even knew of it’s existence. Now I want one, thanks!
In addition to using the blue adapter "cleaning coupling" with my smart water bottle, I use it to connect the filter to a hose and back flush. That works pretty well even on a thru-hike. Be sure to knock the filter while back flushing to dislodge the junk in the hollow fibers.
With regards to the size of the opening on the squeeze filter bag, just use a collapsible funnel. There are very light and work a treat.
I never even thought of looking for a replacement bag for the Sawyer, the Cnoc looks great! Nice one 👍️
That bad is 100000% better
A lot of reviwers of the Sawyer Squeeze agree that to really get the filter completely clean is to use the back flush plunger that comes with the filter
Tremendous force needs to be applied to correctly backwash/clean the filter so I would agree.👍🏻
Thanks for this video. Very strait to the essentials and to the point. Ive ordered 2 of each for me and my girlfriend carry bag
Thanks man 👍
Thanks for the video! I am looking for a water filtration kit and the Sawyer sounds great but I get hearing ppl complaining about the pouches! Glad you've shared a fix for this!
Super awesome video. I just got off the trail and had trouble backflushing. I gravity fed my Sawyer from the big bag and it stopped running even after back flushing. I'll definitely adopt this system.
I throw the bottle to bottle adapter away and just use the sports cap to connect to my smart water bottle. when full I give it a quick squeeze to backflush the filter.
That's smart, one less item to carry around
Could you use the replacement bag with the Sawyer Squeeze mini?
Awesome video!!! I have wanted the sawyer system but the bag had terrible reviews...now i know what to do! thank you thank thank you!
Tip: Fill the Sawyer bag with the bottom half of a Smartwater bottle. Just cut the bottle in two. No dipping the bag in a stream required. Next, if you're squeezing the bag, that's not the best way to do it. The best way I've found is to put the full dirty-water bag into the nylon mesh bag which comes with the filter, with the filter attached to the dirty-water bag. Using a coupler, attach a clean-water container (Smartwater bottles are great) and let gravity do the work. You'll need to unscrew the Smartwater bottle from the coupler a bit to allow air to enter. Used this way, the Sawyer bags are very serviceable. Plus if you're using another Sawyer bag for your clean water, put a blue PepsiCola lid on it. Put a red CocaCola cap on your dirty water Sawyer bag. Blue and red will be your indicators as to which bag is which. Cheers.
I dropped the plastic one gallon bag while backpacking. It broke open, sawyer said they don’t cover it because I dropped it. Luckily my friend had a back up system
Did you even watch the video? He literally explained how to filter using gravity lol, that was the whole point 🤦♂
Where would you get just a red Coca-Cola lid though? I don't want to buy an entire soda I'm not going to drink...
@@joel.ha. get a girlfriend who drinks Coca-Cola. And get another one who drinks Pepsi. At that point, filtering water will be the least of your concerns. :-)
@@reidtillery2856 I'll go broke on their medical bills and epipens 🤣
Awesome job. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the helpful follow up!
Why not backflush with the ring adapter rather than switching to the sports cap?
Same question lol ))
Because the sports nozzle fits the tiny hole that the water comes out, similar to the syringe. Using the ring adaptor will not adequately push water through the hole at a high enough pressure to prevent channeling in the filter. Channeling will decrease the effectiveness of the filter. Happy hiking!
@@GregoryRobertsLx just not true. The Sawyer coupling works perfectly, it's intended purpose is partly for backflushing. The pressure has nothing to do with the fitting. In fact, one could achieve a greater pressure with a threaded fitting than without.
Really need to use the syringe. Fact is it takes A LOT of pressure to properly backflush the Squeeze. You won’t get enough directed pressure squeezing a smart bottle, or similar, with a semi-fitting sports cap nor with a bottle and threaded attachment. The website goes in-depth with the actual required force and why most of these other tricks aren’t effective
Could the filter not just attach to the water bottle and drink straight from the water bottle with the filter attached?? to skip the bag filling and filtering into the bottle?
Yes but then you squeeze the bottle enough times and it will break/ leak. If you're just going out for a couple weeks that is fine
You can use a smart water bottle or life water bottle as a dirty water container and thread the sawy on to it on the inlet side. Then you can drink right from the sawyer using a cap on the outlet side.
or just simply use the white sawyer cap for backflush
Very good video subject and very good presentation. Thank you very much for sharing this information I didn’t know about and that will help me a lot with the issues with my sawyer squeeze water filter. I liked your videos so much I just subscribed to your channel and gave you a like. Have you ever used the Katahdin be free and what are your thoughts about it? Thanks again for sharing this video. God bless you.
Thank you!
Enjoy
Hi. Have you considered using a mini liquid hand pump to supply inflow water to your sawyer? More power!
Too much pressure will break the filter though. Sawyer recommends against attaching them to a tap for that reason.
Good stuff. Thanks!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
Very cool mod! Subscribed ☺️🌿
i cant find the smart water water bottle with the sports cap anymore
super useful!
Why use sports cap when you can use just an adapter to back flush ? I do not get it.
instant bidet over your cat hole. no need to pack out toilet paper. saves you 900 ounces.
oh and also the adapters hole is bigger than my sports cap so the sports cap can push harder for that initial back flush.
Nice 👌
Thanks for a good video!
Question: I just purchased the micro Sawyer and I'm trying to make it filter by using gravity - it doesn't work. And I don't know why! I've connected one bottle to each end simulating having one with dirty water to be filtered to the other. The water bottle just hangs there, with no water passively sippering through. Suggestions?
If air can't get out of the clean bottle, then water can't get in. It becomes pressurized. The solution is to LIGHTLY thread it onto the blue coupler, just enough to keep it held, but loose enough to allow air to escape around the threads. I had the same problem and thought something was wrong with my filter. Loosening up the threads got it flowing.
Thanks
The CNOC bag causes a plastic taste to the water. i put it in my trading stock box.
If you need to do a lot of backwashing, I wonder just how long those smartwater bottles will hold up from all the compressing.
You could always bring a "clean water" CNOC bag. Or maybe even use the actual Sawyer bag for backwashing.
when I connect bottle using that bluecap, I couldn't filter! I guess they block the air or St, anyone can suggest fix?
I bought mine at walmart for under $30.
Got mom for 16 on Amazon
That bag is no longer available, any other recommendations?
It is on Amazon
Not available on Amazon. I just picked one up from GarageGrownGear three days ago.
Manufacturer is no longer selling CNOC via Amazon to support small biz. Must by online from Garage Grown Gear or your local outfitter.
So you don’t have to “lug around” a syringe to back flush, and use a sports cap instead, BUT you now have to carry around bitter bottle to fill with clean water or back flush…..
You back flush with clean water right?
YES!
no links?
Stuck at woooork links coming now
👍👍
They stopped making those awesome sports caps on disposable water bottles! I am bereft.
No they didn't?
@@joel.ha. yeah they suck now. They break more easily, they don't stay open all the way, and they don't stay closed as well. I had one leak in my bag just the other day. This is true of all brands; even my contact lens solution bottle top sucks in the same way now.
Dammit!!! This is why we can't have nice things
@@joel.ha. Yup, big corporations strike again.
The CNOC bad is no longer available. Where can one find it?
U can buy direct
@@KIMO365 Show me
@@tonywillingham8109 the CNOC bags are sold at many places, CNOCoutdoors, REI, etc. Just put CNOC bag into google. Spring is fast approaching though, so many things are out of stock currently.
@@LWilli5 show me.
Amazon $19 as of today
the pouches leak they are trash