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Scout Pocket Rocket Tote Bags Bungalow bags not only offer unique, beach house inspired, colors and patterns they also offer unparalleled quality. Whether you’re off to the beach, about town, the mall, the grocery store, a vacation or even college, you won’t go wrong, packing it up in a stylish and quality built bag from Bungalow. The Petallica Aqua Pocket Rocket is an all-new multi-pocketed tote bag offering easy transport fo… |
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Scout Bagette Tote Bag Bungalow bags not only offer unique, beach house inspired, colors and patterns they also offer unparalleled quality. The Petallica Green Bagette Tote is no exception. Perfect for your everyday grocery shopping needs, the Bagette Tote is preferred over paper or plastic at the checkout line. Outfitted with two different lengths of handles for easy loading or carrying, the Bagette Tote makes shop… |
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Overexposed: My Strange Life on America’s Toughest Trail (Blu-ray) $35.00 A fascinating day by day account of Lynne’s border to border adventure on the untamed CDT. The 3-hour documentary packs a powerful punch. The high-definition video camera brings the glory of the mountains right into your living room. Innovative subtitles catapult the sound track to the forefront where its richness envelopes and overwhelms the listener. After one viewing you will understand the tra… |
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Amazing Grace! $15.00 The eyes of the world were riveted on Bill as he stumbled and groped 2,143 miles from Georgia to Maine. See for yourself just how he did it. Your own trail perspective will never be the same. Includes information a book publisher tried to censor. An inspirational and mind-blowing musical mini-documentary. *The viewer is able to analyze a once-in-a-lifetime event.**The cameraman is given exclusive … |
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Lightweight Backpacking Secrets Revealed $30.00 After watching this video, your pack loaded with 5 days food and water will weigh less than 25 pounds. Yes, backpacking can be painless. Features interviews with 10 minimalists. If your budget’s limited, let this be your one video. Hold onto your hat – everything that can be shaken will be.*Many expert opinions presented.**Field-tested advice.***This is the landmark video ushering in the lightweig… |
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STM BAGS Scout Small Laptop Shoulder Bag, Fits most 13-Inch Laptops, Olive $52.79 1.20″ 11″ 13″ 13.20″ 14.20″ 3.10″ 9.60″ The scout redefines a laptop carrying solution for your everyday commute. High density padding surrounds laptop, secure buckle closure for main bag. Hook and loop closure over laptop section and cushioned felt laptop lining. New STM design shoulder pad for carrying comfort, utility pockets for accessories and full sized document pocket. Canvas Carrying Case … |
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Scout Backpacks Questions
Does an old backpacking water filter need to be replaced?
I have an old Scout backpacking water filter that has sat on a shelf in our basement for 20 years. It was only used 3 times. Does it need to be replaced or can we start using it again. The ceramic filter can’t be replaced bc they don’t make that model any more.
It’ll need a clean but it’ll be fine after that if it isn’t damaged.
To clean it, rinse it off and brush it under the tap with a stiff brush.. If the hole through the middle is small a bottle brush or a toothbrush could be useful
Then put it into bowl of warm water with a few drops of normal household bleach in it for an hour, or even better (But I bet you don’t have any….) is to make a solution of one Campden tablet in a pint or two of water and soak the filter in that for an hour.
Camden tablets (or powder) is what wine and beer bottles are sterilized with before filling them, in professional vineyards and in home wine making.
Find them in the supermarket or a health food shop that does all sorts of bits or in a home wine making store or through an internet shop like this
http://www.eckraus.com/PS115.html . . . .
Now it’s clean and any bugs living on it are well gone to bye-bye land.. Put the filter in the holder and pump water through it.
Discard the first two or three pints and then empty the filter, wrap it well, and it’s ready to go camping.
Some filters have a reverse pumping action for cleaning them out so you pump water through the ‘outlet’ side and that system is used as well in many of the expensive big filters for industry or large groups of people on campsites and by the Army for it’s 500-gallon water bowsers..
.It was one of my jobs as an Army medic to test the water from those and train people how to do it.
Have a look if the instruction book is missing and see what you can do with it.
When the water is filtered it will need sterilizing. Three ways to go or just boil it for at least five minutes.
1…You can use those Campden tablets at one per gallon. You drink it every time you have a glass of wine. It’s used to stop fermentation as well as sterilizing the bottles and it breaks down to a pure harmless salt but the water will have a whiff of sulfur, which boils off if you’re cooking with it, or making tea or coffee.
It can be easily hidden by adding one Vitamin C tablet per gallon. In wine it’s mostly hidden but you’ll see some wine reviews which mention a sulfur tang in the wine….not always a bad thing and for cooking wines it doesn’t matter at all. The tiny bit of sulfur soon gets boiled off
That method with Campden powder or tablets is done all over the world by trekkers and campers, and by local people who can get the stuff.
Even African villagers do it…..if the traveling water teccie has paid a visit and left some Canpden powder or tablets. I always take some for presents when I visit remote villages and not only in Africa.
I like Africa, seen some.. lots more to see. …Cry at the bank for me. It’ll get back sooner maybe. xx
2…Put five or six drops per gallon of pure bleach in the water instead of the tablet. Mix well.
Not bleach with caustic soda and perfumes and muck added….pure chlorine bleach….sodium hypochlorite with nothing else added.
It releases chlorine, same stuff tap water is sterilized with. It’s safe to drink.
The tang of chlorine is very small unless you overdose the stuff…use the vitamin C tablet trick.
It works.
3… Pay through the nose for sterilizing stuff that tastes awful from a camping shop. Again, the good old de-taster magic is done with a vitamin C tablet..
In cold weather leave it for an hour whichever chemical treatment you use before using the water, to let the sterilizer do it’s work. In warm weather, 30 minutes.
Have fun.
Review of Eureka Tetragon 7 tent
This is a nice tent rated for 3 people (2 with gear) manufactured by Eureka. The Tetragon series does come in other sizes, so I would expect the features to be similar. This one measure a 7×7 floor and stands a little more than 4 feet high. Polyester rain fly is full-sized providing enough protection to count this as a three-season tent.
Features also include a twin-track side opening doorway, hanging gear loft, to detachable storage pockets, fiberglass shock-corded poles, and external guy points on the fly for securing the tent.
I’ve had lots of experience with Eureka tents and have yet to be disappointed with the value. In general, they build a quality product, well sown, and well designed. Most of their tents fall somewhere in between the high adventure mountaineering styles and the family weekend tents, though they have crossed over into both those areas.
The Tetragons fall into that mid range. At under 7 pounds for covering 2 or 3 people, they qualify for backpacking use, but they are not four-season tents and should not be compared with shelters so rated. They do very well for weekend use. With due care, they are great for use with Scout troops or similar use. Treat with seam sealer before using the first time and repeat once a year. Store them dry; that may mean spreading it out in your garage if they come home wet before packing it up to store.
Eureka stands behind their products and are eager to solve problems that may be encountered. Everything man-made will eventually break or wear out. But I have found that taking good care of equipment pays off. I have used Eureka tents that are over 40 years old that still function like new. They were maintained properly!
The only issue I have had with the Tetragon 7 is the fiberglass poles. There is almost always one that will split sooner or later. I think that is true with most fiberglass poles regardless of tent manufacture, but that is easily fixed with a pole repair kit. Various users seem to think that this is a major issue and opt for a more expensive tent, but when the difference is an $8 kit or tent at least $50 more, my choice is clear!
All in all, with a retail suggested price of $109.99, this is not a bad deal at all. Will it compare favorably to a tent that is priced $200 or up? Probably not, but with due care it will last every bit as long.
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About the Author
Fred Heilbrunn is an Eagle Scout and an experienced Scoutmaster, currently writing reviews on equipment at http://scoutingforoutdoorequipment.weebly.com
