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Broken cap nozzle on smart water bottle
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May 29, 2016 at 4:17 pm #3405493
Anyone else have the flip cap break apart from the nozzle on their smart water bottles? Am I doing something wrong? Any tips?
Would be a bummer to lose it and have to deal with water leaking out for the rest of the trip.
May 29, 2016 at 4:59 pm #3405510An extra plain Smartwater cap seems like really good insurance on longer trips.
May 29, 2016 at 5:07 pm #3405513How much use did your cap receive?
May 29, 2016 at 6:57 pm #3405539Happens to me all the time. Most of the time they don’t break, but the plastic starts to tear at the hinge point and it’s very sharp. I now always carry a spare cap
May 29, 2016 at 7:01 pm #3405541Happens all the time. They’re not designed or intended for extended use.
But there are other water bottles out there with push/pull caps that don’t break… same size bottle and same plastic.
billy
May 29, 2016 at 7:05 pm #3405542I buy an Aquafina bottle and put a Smartwater flip cap on it in early spring and pitch it in the fall. I typically use it all summer without incident, including at my office. Now that I’ve said this, I suspect I will be plagued with broken caps from here on out.
May 29, 2016 at 9:24 pm #3405579The advantage of the Smart Water caps is they can be easily opened with one hand. The push-pull caps are a little more difficult.
May 29, 2016 at 9:39 pm #3405581Plus the Smartwater bottle caps work to back flush the Sawyer filters that are so popular.
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