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Cleaning a CamelBak

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Any tips for cleaning a CamelBak bladder. I see you can get tablets but I won't have enough time to buy them before I go on Saturday. Any holdhold remedies I could use?

Bod.
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Stuff for cleaning babies bottles will work.

Or if theres a homebrew shop nearby the stuff us brewers use to clean bottles etc is just fine too.
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I suppose you have to be very polite to the camel for a start! Confused
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Its meant to read household! Smile
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No we like 'homebrew better Very Happy
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Bicarbonate of soda
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ssnowman, I have some of that in a cupboard. What do i d with it.?
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Trade secret....
- pour approx 1cm of vinegar or lemon juice into a plastic film canister.
- take a peice tissue paper and separate it so that it is single ply
- carefully place over the canister
- carefully place 1tsp of Bicarb on the tissue paper
- place lid on firmly (it is essential that the bicarb doesn't come into contact with the vinegar)
- Tip canister over quickly and stand back....

Safety DO NOT stand over the canister.
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Lorraine,

What happens next?
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Try it.....nobody gets hurt unless you are silly enough stand looking over the top of it.....its good fun honestly.
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Won't clean the camelbak then....

Hmmmm Acid and Bicarb = ?
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well i'm sure a camel is very much like a cow, i saw Hugh Fearnley–Whittingstall doing it and it consisted of lots of water and then lime soda or something like that.............smells a bit mind!
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We use Milton (baby bottle cleaner) for ours. If its really grotty you may need to fill it with a Milton solution and leave it overnight. Works well.

Anthony
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Now there's a thought
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........in the right quantities would make a spudgun look positively boring! Twisted Evil
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Lorraine, physics teacher? Twisted Evil
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I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you Twisted Evil Actually we aren't allowed to do this any more since I made a bazooka out of the cleaners vacuum to teach the sixth form about projectile motion. Head of science thought it was great but the cleaner was a bit P****ed off! Embarassed
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What is a camelbak bladder? Seriously, I am not taking the pi$$, but what is it?
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BOD, Go to your local pub and ask if you can have or buy some pipeline cleaner (it's what they use to clean out the beer pipes) BUT be very careful with it and follow the dilution instructions. If your near me send me a pm and I'll give you some snowHead
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....we need a biology teacher.......quick anyone good a drawing diagrams? Laughing


jb1970, it is a rear mounted water carrier for excessively sweaty skiers or boarders!
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boredsurfin, Thanks, am in Kent so would be a bit far.

Lorraine,

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jb1970, it is a rear mounted water carrier for excessively sweaty skiers or boarders!


Take umbrage at being excessively sweaty Smile

My good lady wife has also suggested bottle sterliser, so will get some from Boots tomorrow.
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It all depends on how hard you have been working! Smile
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Go for the proper gas spud gun. A length of gas pipe and a chamber - use a flamable aerosol for the charge hehehe
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Nearly took someones head off withone of those......not to be tried in school!
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Steradent....safe,effective and leaves a clean minty taste(ask Granny Toofy Grin )

Scarpa, No1 son,and his mates,made a beaut(after several failures)Powered by his mates,sisters,hairspray.Pretty awesome firepower Twisted Evil All went well,till the day they got a bit excited,and rammed too much in the end.Almighty bang,the end flew off,and went straight through a double glazed window Shocked Still pretty cool,he was at his mates house at the time wink Laughing
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I was fascinated by pyrotechnics as a kid. I blew up an air raid shelter once - well underground brick one. Shot me 10 feet through the air, scorced earth in a fan shape at the entrance steps and 2*6 foot of panel fence converted into matchsticks. Petrol vapour Embarassed My best other was an abandoned quarry building blown up with a little pipe bomb - big bang hehehe. Think the nails were overkill though.
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Scarpa, Am still interested in pyrostuff. Do you live in the London area?
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Scarpa, Wrexham I thought that was just your location Laughing Laughing
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You cant beat pipe with one (Blank) - either as mortar or cannon - (stuff to make it go boom) - ideal for using turnips as ammunition Smile

Got arrested for shooting up a shed with turnips........ Smile ah well - dont do this at home kids being arrested is not fun

RE Camelbak I dunno about the overly sweaty but it does stop hangovers from kicking in...... Wink rolling eyes


Edited for sensible reasons


Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much on Mon 16-01-06 13:40; edited 2 times in total
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Er, not wanting to be a killjoy, but maybe one or two of these posts are discussing 'experiments' that could have unfortunate consequences if attempted by 'younger' readers. Shocked

In a previuos life I was a fireman and was once called to an incident where a couple of young geniuses had been making pipe bombs. The problem (well the one that they noticed) was that they had tried to drill a fuse hole in the pipe AFTER filling it with the stuff they don't like you to put on your garden and tea sweetener wink .

One of them only lost his sight (he was by the door) . The other one was a choice between scrape him up or paint over him. NOT PRETTY. Just thought a note of caution should be injected: Kids - only do this at home if you don't mind dying or losing parts of your body. wink
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stick to film canister rockets...much safer.....too much wine after dinner...comment noted feeling suitably humble Embarassed Embarassed Embarassed
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Lorraine,

My comments weren't really directed at you, I doubt anyone ever got worse than a black eye from messing about with bicarb/vinegar rockets. it was more the home built artillery pieces Shocked and hairspray powered spud guns that worried me! Very Happy

obelix67, Scarpa, you know who you are Very Happy
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I take responsibility for starting this one though
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I havent done anything like that since I was 16
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obelix67, "Got arrested for shooting up a shed with turnips".


That's my new favourite forum quote of all time... Very Happy
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Axsman - fair point and orignal post duly edited.

Michael - it wasnt fun at the time, I was kinda being stubborn with the local cop - the other kid was wailing like a banshee - it is not like it was a new shed you could see through it before we started. However as the cops pointed out it was not our property to demolish - plus it was made of white or blue asbestos tiles so doubly stupid blowing it apart.
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and to think people complain about so called chavs smashing stuff up these days.. Cool

he says in the full knowledge that my youth involved no marlarky of this kind whatsoever..!! Shocked wink
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Camelbak ? Whats wrong with a traditional Hipflask ? Very Happy
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You can't get as much in a hipflask?
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yeah - hip flask for malt
camel bak 2 litres of water to rehydrate self - I have big hips.
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Camelbak do sell proprietory cleaning tabs, brushes and things to keep the bladder open to dry. All very over priced.
1) Don't let it get gungy - rinse thoroughly after every use and use the drinking tube in a loop pushed into the bladder to keep the sides apart to dry.
2) Milton, or similar, is a fine steriliser.
3) Have a good look at the mouthpiece - mine developed an interesting and hard to shift mould. Household bleach used neat shifted it.

Some users swear by Steradent tablets as used for false teeth for cleaning/sterilising.
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