After being off grid for over a year we finally broke down and bought a Travel Berkey! We want
to share why and how to set one of these up well I'm Angie with Adventures in NoMadness and Ronda
is my trusted camera woman today again for this how-to video why did we decide to finally after
all this time living in our RV and being off grid we finally decided to get a Berkey
well it's not just a water filter it's a water purifier so it's going to take out dozens and
dozens of all kinds of different things that we don't want in our water well we have a 28
gallon tank in the Escape Travel Trailer. It just is kind of gross to drink out of it
because we don't have a good filter system or purifying system so we are going to go to a
Travel Berkey. Many of our friends totally swear by it that way we can filter or purify the water
from our RV tank and then drink right from there we got this off Amazon and
Berkey really recommends that you buy from authorized dealer and we made sure we did through
Amazon I'm going to put a list down below in the description of the authorized Berkey dealers on
Amazon we got ours through Colorado Distributors. This is what comes with the Travel Berkey you've
got these two sections here and then a lid this funny round thingy and then some various other
pieces and parts here like the spout and the handle for the top now you may be wondering
where are we at for all of you familiar with us we're in some strange house yes we are in
our good friend Robin's house for this it took a lot more water than we really wanted to expend
at our off-grid cabin so this has been convenient with trying to wash these and prime the filters
thank you Robin you're the best the first step in this is to wash these really well and both the top
and the bottom part and the lid here so we've done that already and then what you also get in
this kit is a whole bunch of instructions and it looks like a lot of reading which it is and
because of that it looks a little bit confusing to actually set it all up but it's really not
that's what YouTube's for right? You go to YouTube and see how things work really really
easily alright the first thing is this round black thing. This is the bottom and this slides around
really easy on the counter so you basically just put the rubber thing right here on the bottom
one of the next steps that comes with it is
basically a handle and a little screw that comes with that and then this goes in the top part here
it's easier to stick the screw in first like that hold it with your finger and then
yeah there we go
I think you pretty much do that hand tight I'm just going to use just a little screwdriver just
give that a quarter turn all right so you got the bottom part here and it's got a big hole in it
here this is your spout you get a little package and it's got this weird piece I couldn't figure
out what that went to but I've got it figured out now and then a couple of other washers and a nut
and poor thingy spout thingy all right so you put one of the washers
on the back side here feed that through
and then the back side here
stick the other washer on there and the nut you're just going to stick on here and do a hand tight
all right the next step is to prime the filters you get two black Berkey purification elements and
you see all this writing on here that's all the stuff the black Berkey filter takes out there's
a couple of white filters you could buy too that are fluoride filters but we're not going
to worry about those we didn't buy them and I'm going to demonstrate on one to prime these first
I just want to put that nut down just a little bit this washer right here it's a rubber washer
you're going to hold on here now this is going to take anywhere from like two to five minutes to do
but you want cold water and you want the water just kind of coming out not super strong
and then you're gonna hold that up there
oops so this is gonna fill up and then when this is all primed it's gonna start beating
out of the bottom here on every single side and I can actually see that right now this didn't
take very long and the top part of the Berkey there's two holes here on Travel Berkey and so
these filters are going to sit down in here like this if you do have a larger Berkey you might have
three to four filters but this Travel Berkey only has two so you flip it over like this
with the rubber washer on the inside here
all right I'm going to come around on the back side here
and head hand thread this on
and same thing with the second one
okay so I got both filters in here all right now that just sits in there
like that well now the fun part begins so they suggest your first time
or every six months or so to test this out and make sure it's all working correctly
by putting a gallon or a gallon and a half oh this holds a gallon and a half of
red water so basically this is one gallon of water with one teaspoon of red dye food coloring dye
and we're going to stick this in here and this is going to come out clear believe it or not
Ronda wants to know what kind of red dye I'm using Mccormick red food color you want to go with a
higher quality some friends of ours use some cheap stuff with citric acid and it was coming through
so don't use red cheap red dye with citric acid it won't work correctly because then you'll have
red coming out all right once I stick this in uh it's actually going to take maybe an hour or so
for it to filter all the way through this does filter about two and a half gallons every hour
put the lid on all right we're gonna let this sit and we'll come back and we'll test it
it's a moment of truth so we wait about an hour for the red dye water to go through
and now we'll see if our filters are working ooh look how clear that is
okay that's pretty cool now the real moment of truth
yummy best water I've ever had well if you got some value out of this video please hit
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