Plastic taste in new Camelbags

YouTube · Post by **housil** » Sun May 27, 2007 6:35 am

MCIera wrote:Is this a real Camelbak?

(...)

Sorry, isn´t...

As I just need it a couple of times a year, I doesn´t wanted to spend €119. So I bought this one for €29 (new!) on ebay. This one can also be attached to the equipment and mustn´t be worn as a "rucksack". So you can carry an ordirnary rucksack over it

Stef wrote:
Nobody would buy 10 eggs...

In Germany you can. We have 10 eggs per box only. According to the metric system maybe? A dozen is a "historic" measurement we don´t use anymore.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Sun May 27, 2007 8:21 am

My hydration pack isn't a true Camelback either

It's a patrol bag+hydration pack marked "MMB-Germany" and it also stank a lot when it was new (thanks God, it's not French

).

A nice smell of beach inflatable toy

In France we have been using the decimal-metric system for two hundred years but we still count the eggs, snails, oyster and other things with a shell by twelve (don’t ask me why!), on a market we still ask for two pounds of onions or bacon instead of “one kg” and the local bagpipe and the famous French beret (aka “Basque beret") use “pouces” (inches) for their size: you ask for a 10” beret or a 16-inch-chanter bagpipe

YouTube · Post by **housil** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:08 am

Stef wrote:My hydration pack isn't a true Camelback either
It's a patrol bag+hydration pack marked "MMB-Germany" and it also stank a lot when it was new (thanks God, it's not French ).

A nice smell of beach inflatable toy

In France we have been using the decimal-metric system for two hundred years but we still count the eggs, snails, oyster and other things with a shell by twelve (don’t ask me why!), on a market we still ask for two pounds of onions or bacon instead of “one kg” and the local bagpipe and the famous French beret (aka “Basque beret") use “pouces” (inches) for their size: you ask for a 10” beret or a 16-inch-chanter bagpipe

Our plumbers measure their pipes still in inches (Zoll) not in milimeters. (One inch/Zoll = 25,4mm)
So we have (water) pipes with 1/2 or 3/4 or 5/4 inches.

Also tires. The diameter and wideness of a tire are still in milimeters. BUT the diameter of the rim is still in inches

Wired, isn´t it?

pound and kg. We use both of them equal, but older people prefer pound (Pfund)

I guess that´s our heritage...

Treesuit · Post by **Treesuit** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:50 pm

Hey guys,
I found a simple way to get rid of most, if not all, of the plastic taste in a water hydration system. Just pour a liter or two coke-cola into it, shake for a minute, then either drink or pour it out and rinse with normal water. Seems to work okay but you have to keep using it to rid it of the bad taste for good. I have several camel backs and some off shoots as well. I have used the cola method and a normal water/soap mix and both work just as fine.

YouTube · Post by **housil** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:55 pm

Treesuit wrote:Hey guys,
I found a simple way (...)

Thank you very, very much for it

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Mon May 28, 2007 3:14 am

Does it work with beer as well?

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:09 pm

Vinegar, will usually do the trick. Put a 50/50 mix of any kind of vinegar and water, shake it around, let it set few hours, rinse. Voila, clean canteen

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:24 pm

so it stinks vinegar so much that you can't smell the plastic anymore?

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:20 pm

No, it really works, to get rid of the polymer smell. < But who cares? Water is water, it all tastes good. I like water. Water is good.

C-rats · Post by **C-rats** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:10 pm

Stef wrote:so it stinks vinegar so much that you can't smell the plastic anymore?

Good one Stef!