Need advice on water filter

[Kevin L]

Hi Guys:

I purchased a Katadyn pocket filter a few years ago for more than $350.00 . . . not counting the extra ceramic filter and spare parts.

Why are they now suddenly being sold for $80.00. I'm thinking of purchasing another one for $80.00, but I feel like there's a catch of some kind (you get what you pay for). What does everyone think? Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Those sites selling them for $80 are questionable at best. That's below the wholesale cost of a new one.

 

[Kevin L]

Those sites selling them for $80 are questionable at best. That's below the wholesale cost of a new one.

Thank you.

 

[Oddcaliber]

If I could have gotten them for $80 I'd have a lot more of them! Probably a mistake on the price. Got mine from Cabelas years ago and it still costs me $400.

 

[Mountain Dragon]

Is it the complete unit or just the ceramic part? Because the costs for an replace ceramic element is around this price.

 

[Buttoni]

This is our main Berkey filter: Buy The Big Berkey Water Filter - USA Berkey Filters

We also have a smaller Travel Berkey we got a good deal on at an trade show a few years back.

We haven't actually had to use them (yet). Hope they are as good as fooks say when the time comes.

 

[Oddcaliber]

Got the Travel Berkey too. Used it for hurricane season when the Parish issued a boil water alert. They work.

 

[Proud Prepper]

This is our main Berkey filter: Buy The Big Berkey Water Filter - USA Berkey Filters

We also have a smaller Travel Berkey we got a good deal on at an trade show a few years back.

We haven't actually had to use them (yet). Hope they are as good as fooks say when the time comes.

I use mine everyday. Do you think the water your drinking now is pure?

 

[Buttoni]

No, not really. But I recently put PUR water filters on all my sinks in my city home and also at our cabin. We also sprang for the 'extra contaminants filtration' cartridges they sell for them.

 

[tmttactical]

We use the PUR filter pitcher. keep extra boxes of filters on hand. Works very well. Only need to filter what we consume.

 

[Buttoni]

We have a Brita filter pitcher also at our cabin, so we're filtering at multiple levels when SHTF.

 

[DrHenley]

The standard Brita and PUR filters do not filter out microbes, they just make water taste better.

 

[Buttoni]

I just bought the Pur filters to catch other stuff the city misses. also put them on the sinks at our BOL to improve water taste mostly. We would be boiling water or using the Berkey exclusively if our well were to become suspect (determined by smell/taste). Last well water check was 2 months ago and contaminants are not an issue at this time, but ya never know. Smell, taste or illness would be our only way of knowing if it had become contaminated. When SHTF, we will probably put all water through the Berkey to catch/kill microbes. Better safe than sorry.

 

[tmttactical]

The standard Brita and PUR filters do not filter out microbes, they just make water taste better.

When it hits the fan, then we will shift to the Berkley. keep it for when it is really needed. Water is fine for now.

 

[Buttoni]

When it hits the fan, then we will shift to the Berkley. keep it for when it is really needed. Water is fine for now.

That was our feeling.

 

[ShadowWolf 13]

If for any reason I'm suspicious of my water I'll boil it, but if I'm on the move say in a bug out senecio I've got a Sawyer mini kit (filter, collection bag & drinking straw) just in case

 

[DrHenley]

Hi Guys:

I purchased a Katadyn pocket filter a few years ago for more than $350.00 . . . not counting the extra ceramic filter and spare parts.

Why are they now suddenly being sold for $80.00. I'm thinking of purchasing another one for $80.00, but I feel like there's a catch of some kind (you get what you pay for). What does everyone think? Any ideas would be appreciated.

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They may be showing the wrong picture. The Katadyn Vario filter is about that price on Amazon:

 

[rainingcatzanddogs]

They may be showing the wrong picture. The Katadyn Vario filter is about that price on Amazon:

I love, love, love my Katadyn. Used it many times while in the Rockies. I think I paid around $40 for mine but that was over a decade ago. $350 is still way high I think.

 

[Kevin L]

They may be showing the wrong picture. The Katadyn Vario filter is about that price on Amazon:

Thank you.

 

[Kevin L]

Speaking of water, have you heard about Jackson, Mississippi? Not enough water to flush the johns or to bathe.

I do not have a well, but I bought all the components and downloaded videos (along with tips from you guys--especially Doc Henley, but everyone else too--so thank you) so that I could actually sink a well on short notice if I have to.

I have the means to filter and boil this well water if I can't get it tested.

I wonder how many people in Jackson have prepared for something like this?