Re: [Paddlewise] MSR Dromedary water bags

From: alex <al.m_at_3web.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:50:53 -0800
> but are not handy to use.  MSR makes a faucet cap acessory that works
well.
> Neither the bags nor this cap  have  leaked in over 1000  miles of Baja
> paddling where water is scarce,  not to mention other trips and  bouncing
> around in the back of  a pickup truck.  Removing a cap to pour can  spill
> water.   The faucet cap can be hooked up to a  shower  hose or a drinking
> tube as a bonus.

Thanks, yes, I thought of faucet cap.  ($5, I think).  The faucet may open
occasionally when it catches something in the boat (and my F-craft is going
to be pretty darn cramped in the trip).  Same danger exists with MSR
standard spigot built in the small cap.  While spigot can be wrapped with
electric tape over and around, faucet I don't know how to lock, (don't
remember -  is it on small cap again - then I may try and tape it, and if
not - then makes no sense to lock it).  I've spotted a water bottle with
wide cap ($4 empty) that fits Drom bag and opens like any water bottle -
pulling up the sleeve in the center of that wide cap. Same danger that it
may open and lose water when you don't see it. Very upseting, and very odd -
my no-name few years old water bottle doesn't leak, and $25 Drom bags both
leak (replaced one that leaked more than another - same result).
Alex.
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