Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Backpack Hunting Katadyb Base Camp Gravity Filter: Defective Design

Sawyer's customer service is top-notch.
I had a questions about the proper way to backflush and clean the filter for storage since it wouldn't be used again for almost 6 months.
The cust svc rep spent a good ten minutes on the phone with me and said if I had any other issues to call back. He was very knowledgeable about the product and that means a lot to me.
As I said earlier we filtered water for 4 days for a group of 21 men who were going through 3-4 liters of water/day. I have no doubt we could have stayed out an other 4 days and been fine.
Gravity feed is the way to go!

Been using the base camp for 5 years and I think its time for a filter change, but it been flawless up to now.

When I bought my ProHiker, the instructions said to pump a couple of liters of water through before using to, in essence, "flush" the system.(my words) I remember the first liters were somewhat "foamy". Perhaps a new filter has a taste until a few liters have been through it to flush out the manufacturing taste.

If you're getting funny tastes after having run it awhile, don't know what would cause that

Yeah, I don't know either snub. It seems to get worse the more I run it, which is the opposite of what i would think it should do. Dunno, maybe I'm just being a wuss. One buddy says he can't taste a thing wrong with it, but 2 or three others of us taste it. I like that thing, but I think I'll have to try a sawyer.

I've used mine a good little bit with no problems,only complaint is,it's a little slower than i'd like...