All right everybody, I just wanted to make a quick video on how to hack your Navage nasal care
system. Essentially, this is your Navage. They are a battery assisted version of one of these,
a neti pot! They come from different brands, but essentially they all kind of look like this.
And if you don't know what these are, essentially they're a drug free way to
soothe and relief sinus congestion and sinus pressure and things like that. You fill it up with
distilled or previously boiled water, and some saline solution. And you essentially pour it into
one nostril while leaning over and the water comes out the other nostril. Kind of icky to think about
it, but it is actually extremely relieving. For those of you who have tried it before
you can probably attest to that. But the Navage system goes above and beyond the traditional neti
pot in that it is battery assisted. However, the issue with the Navage as great as it is,
is that it uses these proprietary tabs. It's these. They're filled with a saline solution
suspended in a liquid that mixes with your distilled water or previously boiled water
that you put the reservoir. However, these are extremely expensive. Especially when compared to
the packets you can buy. And these again come in many different brands or varieties, and they're
a lot more affordable than buying the Navage brand. So what we need to do is hack your Navage.
And there are two ways to do it. So the first approach is to use one of the pods that comes
with the device. It comes with quite a few in the box, so you don't have to hack it right away,
but eventually you will run out after you use it. And you remove it from the top part there,
it looks like this. All we need to keep is the rim. This rim with that still has the foil on it.
You're just gonna use an exacto knife or scissors to just cut the rest of it off. Now you probably
should wear safety gloves or something for this part, or you can just be really careful like I
was, but this is the gist of what you want to do. You want to take this part and have it removed,
and essentially that is all you need so the goal here is to ensure this button gets pushed
down when you close the lid. And by simply keeping this frame. Now, it doesn't matter
which approach you use to hack your Navage, they both require one more step. If you just close this
it won't work, what you need to do is close it about
halfway, and then reach underneath and push this button in and you'll hear a click.
There! Then close it. Now it's working like a beaut! The second method is to use one of these
zip ties, and this one's kind of big. It's the same approach you're basically going to use
the zip tie to push down on this button. Now what you'll want to make sure you do is keep this large
clasp below. And the reason for that is if the clasp is above this lip you won't be able to close
the lid. So I actually have a problem with mine, it's too wide. It actually won't go down flush
from here to here, so I can push the button down. I've actually taken some
putty that belongs to my children here and pushed it up through the gap, and that gap is...
I would say right at five millimeters. So if you get a zip tie that is
five or four millimeters wide you are good to go. What you need to do is close it about halfway,
and then reach underneath, and push this button in and you'll hear a click. There! Then close it.