Trail Blazer Ultra Light Filter 5.0 L/M 6.5″

Trail Blazer 5.0L/m 6.5″ Ultra Light Water Filter

RapidPure Trail Blazer Likely Uses

Emergency preparedness, Bucket System, Water Bag or Barrel, Family Reunion, Large Gatherings, Missionary Workers, and Do-it-Yourself Type of People

This replacement filter also fits the RapidPure Trail Blazer Ultra Light Camp System and RapidPure Explorer Camp System.

Features:

• Extremely lightweight filter
• 1/2″ threaded shaft with a hose barb connection point
• The barbed end will also allow the filter to be used as a straw
• 2 flat washers and a wing nut so you can put it in a pail, barrel, or water bag

Trail Blazer 6.5” filter element can be a replacement filter for any stainless steel can, bucket, or even a gravity-feed water bag drip system. This 6.5-inch 5.0-liter minute filter can even filter a large container of up to 10 gallons of water in less than an hour. This is particularly good if you need clean fresh water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, washing, hygiene, and any other purpose where clean pure water is necessary.

RapidPure filter elements are lightweight and somewhat flexible to withstand rougher handling. They are easy to pack and carry, unlike heavier ceramic filters that bump, crack, and break. A Trail Blazer filter element could also be used as a straw to drink from a murky water source and the life expectancy of the filter is greater.

Two 2-gallon buckets with a spigot make an ideal drip system. One 5-gallon pail with a gamma lid will store and hold all the parts together for an emergency.

How does a RapidPure UltraCeram filter work?

Rapid Pure Ultra Ceram filters do more than capture contaminants that affect the filter element. Enclosed electropositive media attracts and retains viruses, cysts, and bacteria. Electropositive fibrous media has high particle removal efficiency and 50 to 250 times greater dirt-holding capacity than its competitors.

RapidPure filters are also infused with activated carbon and silver. Silver is a self-sanitizing agent that kills bacteria, preventing the growth of captured bacteria.

RapidPure UltraCeram is a particulate and electro-adsorbent filter. Depending on the laboratory test method RapidPure media can be plugged with pure solutions of humic acid, bacteria, or particulates to the point where water will no longer flow through the media under normal operating pressure of the device.

RapidPure will also adsorb dissolved contaminants such as lead, cadmium, iron, certain forms of arsenic, zinc, and others that pass through hollow fiber and other mechanical filters.

In the real world, no water stream is “pure”. All waters contain some mix of contamination that will eventually cause any filter to fail to reduce one contaminant or the other. For this purpose, RapidPure has designed a family of filters to allow the user to select the best combination of filters for a particular application.

Certified Performance by Third-party Testing

RapidPure filters have been tested by an independent, certified laboratory using accepted test methods to reduce pathogens in water filtration devices. The industry-established test methods define the contaminants, their concentration, and how the test should be conducted. The challenge solution in testing the Rapid Pure filter contained a virus concentration of 3.65 x 105 (3,650,000 viruses) per milliliter of water. Bacteria concentration was 3.45 x 105 (3,450,000 bacteria) per milliliter of water. This would be 70.5 TRILLION pathogens in a liter of water! To help put this number into perspective, it would be similar to the discharge of a municipal sewage treatment plant or a highly polluted river such as the Ganges.

Percent removal of the challenge species

Bacteria: Raoultella terrgena >99.9999%*

Virus: MS-2 Bacteriophage >99.9999%*

Parasite: 3.0-micron microspheres >99.998%*

Assembling a Drip Bucket System using a Nano Ultraceram RapidPure Trail Blazer Ultra Light Water Filter

Assembling a filter in a bucket system begins by drilling a 1/2″ hole in the bottom center of the top bucket and another 1/2″ hole through the lid of the bottom bucket. The holes should be directly in line with one another.

This next step may vary depending on the space that must be filled between the bottom bucket’s lid and the top bucket’s bottom surface. Some buckets have a raised rim under the bottom center of each bucket that will leave a gap for the water to leak through. It may be necessary to use both flat washers between the lid and the bottom of the top bucket to fill the gap so water does not leak into the clean water through the lid of the bottom bucket.

The filter comes with two 1/2″ flat washers. Assuming your bucket isn’t like the one described above put one flat washer on the stem of the filter and carefully poke it through the hole in the top bucket. As you lower the filter gently align the shaft with the lid of the bottom bucket. If the holes are too tight you can take a pocket knife and lightly scrape the hole to ease the assembly. Then install the second 1/2″ flat washer under the lid of the bottom bucket. In other words, the second washer goes on just before the wing nut to provide a seal so water doesn’t accidentally leak through the lid where the shaft comes through the hole.

Once the lid, filter, and wing nut are fitted together, gently tighten the wing nut to prevent contamination or leakage. Be careful not to over-tighten the nut so much that it stresses or cracks the filter stem.

Now let’s do a leak test as follows…take a cup of water and pour a thin layer of water into the top bucket, but be careful not to add so much that it begins to run through the filter element. Also, take a cup and pour a little water into the bottom lid where it attaches to the top bucket. Let the water sit in both places for 20 to 30 minutes and then carefully raise the bucket to inspect for leaks around the wing nut where the shaft goes through the lid. If there is a leak, it needs to be fixed to prevent unfiltered water from entering the clear water bucket where the water is stored. The fix may be as simple as switching the flat washers to a different position as described above.

Now you need a 3/4″ hole for the Spigot. The hole should be drilled deep into the sidewall of the bucket, but not so far down it makes it impossible to screw the nut onto the shaft. The nut fits on the inside near the floor of the bucket. If the hole is drilled too low in the side of the bucket the nut will interfere with the floor of the bucket making it impossible to assemble the Spigot nut. If the holes are too high you won’t be able to get all the water out of the bucket. It is best to place the nut inside the bucket to determine the positioning of the spigot hole.

For anyone who’s not good with details, we provide a complete drip water system kit that’s ready to assemble. Your filter life can be extended if you securely wrap a dishcloth around the filter element. This is particularly good where extremely turbid water and contaminants are noticeable such as fish scales, fecal matter, etc. If you filter dirty water make sure the sediment settles to the bottom before you dip off the top. When you put water in the top bucket it slowly passes through the filtering element and trickles down through the filter shaft into the bottom bucket. If the water flow becomes too slow you may have to rinse the filter or clean the screening cloth.

In conclusion, we recommend backup filters for heavy use or dirty water. How many you need depends on the condition of your water supply and how frequently you need water.

NEW 7.5″ x 2.5″ Nano Gravity is a larger Water Filter