In this video, I'll tell you about my Stefani water filter urn. I will show you how I replace
the broken plastic tap spigot, & replaced it with a 3rd-party product I bought from eBay which is
cheaper than the plastic. & I'll also explain to you the 2 replacement cartridges I've used -
one made by Stefani, & one made by Dalton in Britain. I will cut them up in half &
show you what's inside. I bought this Stefani porcelain 10L gravity water filter urn
about 19 months ago. 1 month ago, the plastic spigot failed because the finger tab broke off
the top of that. It's not a great design. I'll never buy another plastic spigot like this because it's
under spring tension, & anything under continuous tension will fail sooner or later. How do you
fill the urn with water. Take off the lid & inside the urn, there is a plastic container.
Inside this plastic container, is where you fill water - tap water. There are 2 water filter
cartridges in there, & the water will by gravity flow down & be filtered through the cartridges,
& come out through the 2 holes - exits into the bottom of the urn. Now if you look at the
size of this even though it says that this is a 10L urn. Really, this is probably 6L
of unfiltered water, leaving maybe 4L of filtered water. & if you look at the
location, the height of the ... where the spigot is - it's pretty high up. Which means you're not
getting the full 4L of filtered water. So maybe you only access 3L of that. So
just bear that in mind if you are ever thinking of getting a water filter gravity urn
design. On the right, is the plastic tab that broke off the plastic tap spigot
that came with the Stefani water urn. & on the left is the stainless steel
tap spigot that I bought off eBay. And so I don't intend to keep buying the the plastic spigot
from Stefani because it cost a lot, it will just keep breaking because of the design - the flawed
design. This cost cheaper than the replacement plastic from Stefani. Right, let's begin the process
to replace this defective plastic spigot with the stainless steel one that I just got.
So, let's take off the lid.
Remove the internal plastic tub.
I'll lay this on the side.
That's what it looks inside - nothing really.
There is a plastic nut - retaining nut - I just need to turn that.
I'll put it this side so you can see. I just need to turn that to loosen it.
Yup, it's coming loose progressively.
Because this is porcelain, you need something soft... rubber gasket, silicon gasket. That's it.
This is what it looks like.
The nut, the washer, another washer on the outside, & the external spigot secures to, & you
lift it. It's a very weak joint & so it just broke off
the hinge. It's just a matter of time. Not if but when. So it's not a great design. This is going in
place instead. There is no continuous tension, all it is is a mechanical device where the gate
is open or it's closed. There's no spring tension. So this will be very difficult to fail, & it's
stainless steel. If you look at it, it's also got the washer, washer & a stainless steel nut.
Excellent replacement I think. Let me remove the nut.
A little metal chamfer.
Right, put this down again.
Hold it there.
Put the silicon washer in on to the thread.
Use the metal washer.
Next,
and the nut.
that's it
Nice, that's certainly a better spigot than the
default factory supply plastic spigot. If you have the same problem or you've got a gravity
urn as well, well consider replacing it with a stainless steel spigot even before the plastic
spigot breaks and fails. It's only a matter of time, not if but when. I'll just put this back.
About the replacement water filter cartridges that I have used with the Stefani gravity urn.
This is the cartridge that comes supplied with the Stefani water filter urn. It's a 4 inch
cartridge. 3-Stage filtration ceramic which filters out 99.9% of bacteria, &
microorganisms. A colloidal silver Stage 2 - essentially keeps the ceramic ... sterilizes the
ceramic. Then the Stage 3 granulated activated carbon which removes the odor & tastes.
On the left hand side, I've bought & used the ceramic filter manufactured by Dalton. It's
a 5 inch cartridge - just an inch longer. It's also 3-Stage filtration which removes 99.99
bacteria, cysts & particles. So it's a little bit better than that one. It's also got a
Stage 2 colloidal silver impregnation in the ceramic to inhibit microbiological growth,
& 3rd, it's got Stage 3 activated carbon as well - which improves the taste & odor.
I found that using both these 2 cartridges, this one seems to need cleaning every almost every week -
& I clean it using a toothbrush.
The Dalton cartridge, on the other hand, seems to require less frequent cleaning maybe 2 to 3
weeks. I've decided not to continue using this one after about or two to three months. This one
after about 6 months, it just gets a bit annoying to keep to having to brush this
clean with the toothbrush. But I'm gonna keep using this particular brand & model because
it seems to last a bit longer.
All right, let's start chopping into the Stefani brand filter first.
Yup, nice white powder. Not difficult at all. I'll just grab this so it doesn't just drop off.
Easy like butter, okay!
So what's inside. Charcoal carbon filter. The inside still looks decent but obviously the outside...
you can see how white it is but the outside got brown because the sludge from tap - normal
tap water - just collects & chokes up the outside of the filter. Right, now it's time to
cut up the Dalton ceramic water filter. You can see how disgusting it is. That's really from the
sludge collected over months from just water from your mains water tap.
Yep, cuts like butter.
I'm through. The walls are bit thinner, & the carbon charcoal is actually finer granularity - smaller.
& small is good. That means there's more surface area.
This is the one that clocks up less.
Maybe, it's to do with the walls being thinner.
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