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#27010 - 04/17/04 06:57 PM water gathering syringe
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Has anybody thought of using a syringe to help gather water?
Maybe used in conjunction with tube or something. What are your thoughts/ideas?

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#27011 - 04/17/04 08:30 PM Re: water gathering syringe
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Hypo needle or turkey baster?
Might be worth using if you had one.
Not sure it would be worth carrying just for that purpose.
There would be a need to clean it on a regular basis.

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#27012 - 04/18/04 02:08 PM Re: water gathering syringe
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Some I know are carrying short lengths of thin tubing for sipping water out of seeps and such.

When backpacking, I've always carried 4-8 feet of flexible tubing, usually just aquarium tubing, so I can set up a siphon from any tiny trickle. The longer the tubing, the further downhill you can put the water container on a shallow slope, and the faster the siphon works. This lets me collect as much water as I need from tiny trickles without much work- just go do something else while the canteen fills- and it probably uses less bulk and weight than a syringe big enough to use for the same thing.

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