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Question: Converting 1 liter bottle lid to bite valve?

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PostedMay 13, 2008 at 10:53 am

Has anyone seen or attempted to use a 1 liter water bottle (think Aquafina) with a bite-valve system?

After trying a myriad of config.s with water containers…I really find two one liter bottles the most useful all around. My only issue is the in-accessability during the hike…which could obviously be overcome with a tube/bite-valve.

Drilling out a lid, and inserting silicone tubing seems easy enough. But how to secure and prevent leakage? I suppose there is the connectors employed in water bag filtration systems…but wanted to see if anyone had an easier way.

Thanks for any thoughts!

PostedMay 13, 2008 at 10:57 am

If you use the narrow mouth plastic bottles instead of the wide mouth Atofina bottles the Platy hydration system screws right on (as well as on 2 L bottle standard threads) without modification.

Carry a Ziplock to help pour water in from the stream to the bottle and you've got a winner.

Dale Wambaugh BPL Member
PostedMay 13, 2008 at 12:17 pm

CamelBak makes a tube kit with a bite valve for their "Better Bottle" containers.

The Platypus hose sounds like just the trick for bottled water containers.

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