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02-10-09 | 12:45 PM
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By the time the boiling water is poured into the Camelbak, the temperature will be well below what is necessary to kill any bacteria, but the water will be hot enough to soften the plastic and maybe damage it. I would think that a few drops of bleach in a Camelbak full of water would probably sanitize it. Personally, I would try to buy a new liner.
Go to Camelbak.com and click on the cleaning and maintenance link for more, and probably better, info.
Go to Camelbak.com and click on the cleaning and maintenance link for more, and probably better, info.
02-10-09 | 12:55 PM
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Well hot water will get rid of most of the bacteria. Pastuerization is based on elevating the temperature to what is it 150 degrees? Now boiling does not kill everything. For that you would need an autoclave. But I have not heard of any pathogen that boiling did not kill.
I would wash it thoroughly. Getting it clean will get ride of 99% of whatever is there. Be careful with the soap you use. Soap can bind to plastic and leach out slowly and affect the taste. So go light on it.
Rinse with hot water thoroughly.
Fill it with water to which you have added a small amout of bleach and leave over night. Bleach is on oxidizer and will kill bacteria. I would use the bleach in a pretty dilute fashion. Bleach will bind to plastic for the bad flavor also.
Fill it with water and let sit over night. That will flush out the flavors of the soap and bleach. If they are not gone, repeat the water over night until it is ok.
The above should clean it up pretty well.
I would wash it thoroughly. Getting it clean will get ride of 99% of whatever is there. Be careful with the soap you use. Soap can bind to plastic and leach out slowly and affect the taste. So go light on it.
Rinse with hot water thoroughly.
Fill it with water to which you have added a small amout of bleach and leave over night. Bleach is on oxidizer and will kill bacteria. I would use the bleach in a pretty dilute fashion. Bleach will bind to plastic for the bad flavor also.
Fill it with water and let sit over night. That will flush out the flavors of the soap and bleach. If they are not gone, repeat the water over night until it is ok.
The above should clean it up pretty well.
02-10-09 | 01:03 PM
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165F is sufficient to destroy most bacteria.
Vodka would do the trick too.
Vodka would do the trick too.
02-11-09 | 06:02 AM
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Go to WalMart and buy yourself a cheap BlackBurn knockoff. Transfer the bladder. Viola.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
02-11-09 | 10:53 PM
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02-12-09 | 05:52 PM
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Exactly what kind of nasty pathogens are we expecting in that liner? Wash it out and be done with it. A little bleach, maybe.
As previously suggested, a new liner would be easy.
As previously suggested, a new liner would be easy.
02-12-09 | 06:54 PM
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02-13-09 | 06:08 AM
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Wash, fill again with water with a couple of drops of chlorox, allow to 'sit' overnight, empty, use. Be sure to include flushing the tube and valve in this drill.
