Brigham (Outdoor Vitals lead designer)

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Live Ultralight Podcast | Backpacking, Travel, and Adventure · EP 208 - Ask OV 12: Planning Around Fires & Maintaining Health On-Trail · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

But anyway, so I took clean

clean water and I with my mouth just pushed the clean water backwards through the filter.

and almost like you're back flushing it.

So you'd basically just backflush your filter with clean water and it pushed the air bubbles back out of my filter and my filter ran perfectly after that.

Now that sounds very complicated.

So Bergham, I think you should try your your best to explain what it is I'm trying to say here.

But more or less, air bubbles get stuck in.

these water filters.

And unless you get the air bubbles out, your water filter will either not filter or it'll filter very slow.

Yeah, unless you realize that air bubbles are trapped in there, you have no idea 'cause 'cause you can't see the fibers.

You can't see the air bubbles in there.

And so there's a lot of people that get 'em and they have no idea that there's there's air bubbles stuck in it.

trapped in it and then they can't get 'em out.

I tend to believe that with a soyer water filter, this is probably one of the number one reasons that keep them

you know, clogging or their flow rate slowing because of the design of them.

you only have that little s like little val like I don't know what you call that, like nipple opening inside of there.

It's not it like the membrane is not nearly as exposed, which in my mind would make it a lot harder for the air bubbles to get back out of that filter after each use, after it's dried out.

So knowing that, I would say essentially like do a small amount of back flush slash, you know, just even use your mouth to push clean water backwards through the filter if you're really, really struggling to get the air bubbles out of your filter.

But try that in the field.

I think you'll see your flow rates go up to at least cap the filter, turn it upside down, let the air bubbles come out.

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