Make your own Berkey water filter system for half the cost
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2023
- A simple 5 step guide to making your own DIY Berkey-style water filter from metal stock pots.
Jump around:
0:17 Tools & Materials List
1:33 Step 1: Check yer pot size
1:47 Step 2: Mark & drill filter holes
2:24 Step 3: Spigot Hole Placement
3:22 Step 4: Sanitize
3:32 Step 5: Assemble
All the tools/materials you will need for this project:
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Great ideas!! I was looking more for a diy water filtration system using cotton, charcoal, sand, etc for the filter part (cotton at the holes into catch/holding tank to keep out all sand and charcoal). Im not great at making videos but plan on making one of my trying it.
Thanks for sharing this idea. Its great but one would need to keep buying the filters unless ones could be found tgat were rinseable or washable.
Awesomeness. Onto designing and building mine.
This is wonderful! Thank you for providing the needed links; you ARE AWESOME! I've shared this wiht many friends now!
Hey thanks for the feedback! FYI - I have since figured out that adding silver into the build makes it more mold resistant. I'd encourage you to experiment with this and find your own solution. Otherwise, if left stagnant for more than 24hrs mold will start to grow
Whoa, this is epic!
Awesome
Awesome. Thank you!
This is brill!
Guy who drills shit here: drilling metal correctly depends on a large number of things. Mostly the hardness of the bit and the piece, and what's called "speed and feed". In this case, stainless, is difficult to drill, but easy if you use a good hardened bit, that is the key. When you buy a bit in todays world, it will say on the package if it's good for metal or not. Get one that is made specifically for metal. They often are more than $10. Do not use grease like in this video. If you want to "lubricate", use a product called Tap Magic. Do your best to not let the drill bit get super hot, that is the other key thing. Just wait a bit between drilling to let the bit cool down. Push into it with moderate pressure. Go the full speed of the drill. Step up from small hole to larger hole, if you can, you don't need the step bit like in this video.
If you have a number of garbage China type drill bits laying around you don't care about, you can burn through them gradually making your holes. Stainless will ruin them, but they will make progress within the first few seconds. Throw it out, Change the bit, and repeat.
Sorry hope this makes sense, trying not to get too far into the technical weeds of it.
This is excellent intel! Never heard of tap magic, I'll have to give that a try. I've typically used the 'disposable bit' method, but am curious to learn more about how to protect carbide bits, etc since they aren't cheap!
Get work!
You mean like, get a job??
Have you performance-tested this system? I'd be interested in seeing if the results differ from Berkey in any way!
This is a great question. I have not done a controlled side by side comparison, but I can tell you that my DIY version with the aqua crest filters and the Berkey brand produces *very* similar tasting water. My friend has a Berkey so I also went ahead and used a TDS tester to check each filters reading of ‘parts per million’. The aquacrest tested at 263, and the Berkey brand tested at 269. Mind you, we do have different pipes, so I think that difference is negligible. - Zerowater provides this testers when you buy their product, and I am convinced that this reading has little to do with water ‘purity’ and more to do with water ‘clarity’. Put simply, having ‘zero parts per million’ vs 200+ may tell you how clear your water is, but not how sanitary or free of bacteria it is. Obviously, Zero water has something to gain by providing this type of tool to their consumers which tests for calcium and magnesium (which are not necessarily bad for you) as opposed to something which tests for other organic bacteria etc in the water. It’s a sort of apples and oranges scenario. Ultimately I went with this route because I felt it was an effective and inexpensive solution which filtered the water from my 100+ year old pipes just fine.
@@kendellharbin YES, you hit the nail on the head with TDS. TDS meters tell you the aggregate concentration of many compounds in your water, and some are harmless (like calcium and magnesium). Some contaminants are notorious for being present in such small quantities that they aren't detectable by TDS meters. (Disinfectant byproducts, heavy metals)
I asked because we (I work for a water testing company) recently had a Tik Toker test his homemade Berkey system and unfortunately the results showed that his system wasn't working effectively.
@@jamiec.378 hmmm fascinating. So how does one test a system without a TDS method?
Because it’s stainless and doesn’t have silver in it like the berkey’s do, how do you address microbial growth?
This is an EXCELLENT question. Many months later I have encountered this issue and found it requires frequent cleaning. Definitely poses an issue. I will report back whenever I find a good work around or solution!
You could throw in a UV light that's made for fish tanks. Put it on a timer.
its ingenious but isn't it a pain to unscrew the whole thing in order to change the filters? I'm guessing you do need to occassionally and regularly change the filters
Not really, same as any other Berkey. But I have had issues with mold growth if left untouched for too many days