Platypus Quickdraw Microfilter

I've been reading reviews on this product since it came on the market, and I picked my first one up about 8 months ago. I was ready to be underwhelmed, but it turned out to be the fastest filter I've ever used. There are countless reviews that talk about painfully slow flow rates out of the box, but that wasn't the case with either of the ones I purchased (I bought another one recently for the misses). If you're getting poor performance right away, I'd suggest replacing it immediately. Quality control does not seem to be strong here, at least according to the reviews.Things I love about this product:• Lightning fast flow rate. Honestly, I thought it was defective because it started pouring water out the clean end almost as fast as I could turn it over after attaching a bag. I've owned just about every sawyer filter on the market, and none of them even touched the flow rate of this filter. I don't understand it. The integrity test implies that my filters are working fine.• I can seal it up. Both ends of the filter close up completely, so I can toss it in my sleeping back on a freezing night and not have to worry about destroying my filterThings I don't love:• The output is just FINE. I can drink from it. I can hover over a bottle and it does a reasonably good job getting all the water into, and not out of that bottle. I CANNOT easily fill up a platypus bag. It's not really designed to fill any kind of reservoir. I know this is a squeeze bag and not a gravity filter, so I'm not knocking any stars off for what it wasn't designed to do. However, I do have a little trick where I take a modified Platypus bite valve, place one end onto the end of the clean output and the hose end, of course, on my bladder hose and it works great as a makeshift gravity filter.• The platy dirty bag. Not going to knock stars off for this one either, because THIS model doesn't come with a dirty bag. Which is good, because it's not great. Filling that bag is difficult, and the bag is small (great for a stream drink, but not for hauling 2-3 liters back to camp when you're 1/4 mile from a water source). Platypus such great material for their bags, I don't understand why they don't make bags with better function. I use a Cnoc bag as my dirty bag, and I have a love/hate relationship with it. It's super prone to leaking, totally unreliable, but it has a great big opening for scooping water (like the platypus gravity dirty bag, but with a much better closure) and screws right into the inner threading of the quickdraw. If platypus would make a bag like the Cnoc, but with their own material, I'd pay a fortune for it.

Finally took our new filter on a section hike on the AT in North Carolina. Tried to filter from a spring the first night and practically NO water would come out no matter how hard we squeezed. Had to rely on strangers to filter for us. Hiked extra miles on two days just to find someone to filter for us so we didn't burn all of our fuel boiling. Finished our hike this morning somewhat dehydrated and very upset.

I am an avid thru hiker with over 5,000 miles under my belt. I have recently been hooked on the Sawyer Squeeze for my long distance hikes on the PCT and beyond. I was turned onto the idea of this filter because you can actually test it in the field to make sure it is still working. The sawyer doesn’t have a way to test it so you have to buy a new one if you think it might have frozen or been dropped. I love that I can actually test this model and see that it is still working and keeping me drinking clean water on the trail, this is saving me money already since I used to have to buy a new filter if I suspected it was broken. I also love the grippy feel to this filter so when it is wet it is not slippery and I don’t have to worry about dropping it in a stream or creek. I also love love love the innovating design with the flip top that remains attached and the screw on bottom so I can sleep with my filter in my sleeping bag and it won’t leak all over me. The sawyer had no way to seal off the bottom so it would leak in your bag overnight if it was cold. This weighs similar to the sawyer but has way more features and I don’t really see a reason to go back to sawyer. I took this filter on a 170 mile trek around the TRT in Lake Tahoe and it worked perfectly for me and my dog to get fresh water the whole trail. I highly recommend this filter if you are switching from Sawyer, the benefits are amazing you won’t go back.

I have an extensive history thruhiking with sawyer products(they are great), however this Platypus filter is my new go-to filter.It has a flip top cap to keep the clean end from getting dirty. The threads on the dirty end are solid and don’t loosen up over time. You can visually see the filter threads which helps with spotting any mold, algae or chunks of weird stuff that ends up in your dirty bladder. Most important back flushing/cleaning is substantially easier to do in field. In our simple side by side test my partner used this filter for a 165 TRT thruhike and I used my Sawyer Squeeze on the same hike. Before we were halfway finished mine was needing constant back flushing and her Platypus never needed flushing.

Having used this filter for my last few backpacking trips, I find it easy to use with a very fine flow rate. I have paired it with a CNOC 3 liter bladder, as I have heard there are some issues with the Platypus bladder. This filter is fairly versatile in that you can screw it straight on to a Smart Water or other 28mm bottle and drink straight through the clean end, though I prefer to filter from my bladder into a water bottle. Though I have not needed to yet, I also like that you can check the integrity of the filter in the field. So far, I have been very happy with this product.

Ordered off Amazon for a backpacking trip based on reviews of how fast this filters. While Sunny Sports did respond to me, I had to look up their contact info and they offered no help whatsoever. Only that I contact the manufacturer directly which I did. Manufacturer is replacing and suggested I do not buy from a third party seller in the future.Had I done that, I believe I wouldn’t have been stuck with a defective filter on trail. Supposed to filter 3 liters per minute and I was barely getting 1. Basically this 3rd party seller got paid for selling me a bad filter, caused frustration and a loss of time on trail, and the manufacturer ended up cleaning up their mess. Avoid the middle man and go direct…

Went on annual quad ride and had to boil all water because u cant force water thru this p.o.s.UpdateI contacted platapus and they sent me a new filter. This one works great. The first one came from a bad batch i guess 🤷. All good now!

When this came it did not want to pass any water at all. Playing with it eventually gave a feebly slow flow rate. I removed the bladder and then added a little washing up liquid to the dirty end of the Quickdraw and reattached it to the bladder. At once I got very fast flow and this persisted after running several litres of clean water to flush out any remaining washing up liquid. This trick may not be approved by the makers and sensible people but could be useful to others who receive one of the minority of these devices which has a poor flow rate. I decided to knock off a star because of the initial problem, but it is wonderful device and I will be using it on all my treks from now on. As the bladder I used a standard 2 litre platypus bottle I already had and so saved the need to buy Platypus's Quickdraw bottle.A word of warning: Chemicals can damage the filter, so only use washing up liquid in small quantities, clean the filter afterwards in both the forward and reverse directions and do this washing-up procedure only if your flow rate is very low. After using washing up liquid and cleaning out its residues I tested the integrity of my filter both by the 20 second bubble test in the makers instructions and also by measuring the flow rate with moderate bladder pressures. My flow rate was one litre per minute (sufficient to fill a mug in 15 seconds) well below the maker’s “up to three litres per minute”, but still very good.

Really happy with this product, used over the years many sort of these things but really like this as fits on nearly all bottles and bags and does the job . Plus nice and compacted

登山で重宝しました夏の山は水分補給が命です水質が不安な水場で活躍しました

丈夫さ、水量の多さで選んでいます。念入りにやりたければ殺菌剤を併用すれば良いだけなので、これ一択です。