have you heard the saying test your preps I've been using my murky water
filter for quite a while now six months I guess I've just been putting my tap
water in it to remove the chlorine taste and all and it started you know at first
the top portion where you pour the water would you can hear a drip drip drip drip
down into the lower portion but a couple three months later I noticed that it was
a much faster drip almost a steady stream and then another couple months I
noticed it was a steady stream so I opened up the top to see if the I'll
show you how they go on here I never set this down why am I never
with a tripod give me one sec okay they screw on with these wing nuts on the
bottom the white ones are just plugs because this is a four filter system
that you can use with just two filters so the white ones are just to plug up
the holes where the other filters would go so these screw on with wing nuts and
I took this off to tighten it up one second gotta set you down again
and here's what I noticed these filters broke off from the base look at that
crappy bit of glue they put on and I just don't see how that is supposed to
stick to this I thought when I looked at these that they may have been molded
together they're not there's nothing here that would hold it to the base
except glue which is underwater 24 hours a day seven days a week and same thing
happened the other one these are the murky black filters so if
I had been using water that I say dipped out of a pond or the Bayou or a swimming
pool who knows how long I would have drank that before I realized that these
weren't filtering the water they went were allowing the water to come around
the base and then go right out the bottom into here will you get your
drinking water I'm glad I checked I have ordered oh by the way Berkey basically
said screw you buddy I had this about a year before I tried
it and I told them I'd only gotten a few months you use out of it before they
broke and they say well you had a more than a year sorry about that
and the people I bought it from said well the best we can do is offer you 50%
off on new filters right I said yeah not good enough
these things are supposed to last way longer than that so I've ordered two
more filters from another company I'm not going to mixing the company until I
get them look at them try them and then I'll do a review on them because I'll
tell you what there's very little difference between the big berkey
filters and the ceramic filters that I bought very little difference Oh
actually there's a huge difference to the tune of 80 bucks there are twenty
dollars apiece for the ceramic filter I'm sorry twenty dollars a pair for the
ceramic filters and these are over a hundred a pair so test your preps better
to know now what's what's going to fail and what's not going to work then in a
time when you have no other options and you desperately need purified water and
you will have to rely on something like this to give you that so please if you
have any kind of filter not just a murky take it out and use it become familiar
with it and make sure that everything work
as its supposed to this could have been a catastrophe if this were in a
situation where I didn't have tap water running already I just thought I'd
invite you to test your preps I've been told that and I'm going to be a lot more
diligent about testing things that I will rely on should society as we know
change thanks for watching