Neat, was a real pain to find a guide so thanks for making this! 4:00 I found it pretty effective to tie a twine to the rubber cap to pull it through the mouthpiece.
Thanks for making this! I used a thumb tack to poke the dowel at an angle and leverage it out and then just pull it with my fingers and it worked quite well! The knife felt a little dangerous for me especially since the dowel on mine was a bit sunken in. Thumb tack didn’t even cause too much damage to the dowel. Feel so much better knowing how to properly clean this, thanks.
1:59 a better way to get this dowell out is to start the process of removing the top and you can get a small opening on the side. Then you insert a butter knife behind the dowell and push it through the hole. Works great and saves the dowell. Just be careful when you pry the top off
Great video thanks. We ended up using a cheese knife with great success and very little damage. No visible damage. I also found it’s easy to scoop and pull the middle straw piece through with something round and long. I used the lever from a nail clippers, but you could easily use a paint brush - would be easier than tweezers. Thanks 😊
I wrote to Camelbak about the design and pointed to your vid, but the response was .... get a flip lid bottle! The design changes over the years could have addressed thorough cleaning by better designing it for disassembly so it's a bit disappointing.
I appreciate you sending them my video. Unfortunate they didn’t have a better response but I guess it would be someone from customer service not the actual design team. To be honest, Contigo bottles are much worse to pull apart. I love the Nalgene bottles and lids for their simplicity
@@huntingwaterfalls Best vid explaining the takedown of the lid. Wish they'd fix the servicability of the drinking straw mechanism. As a design it's good because you can drink without the bottle obscuring your field of view (like when you're stopped at the lights grabbing a drink). Or for whatever reason you want unobstructed view. Plus it's no spill or leak (bite valve), so there's no problem with water sloshing around. If they keep the bottle's thread pattern the same and come up with a replacement/improvement - great. Also peeved with bottle designs like Klean Kanteen that change the width across the similar product range...(that's another topic)
I'm so disappointed in Camebak because I still have an old bottle from >10 years ago without these extra rubber parts that works fine & doesn't grow mold like these new ones do. I'm just dumbfounded as to how they could redesign lids in such a worse way that basically harbors mold, mildew, & germs inside the lid! It really sucks.
For the dowel, I used a metal skewer (the kind that come with a turkey-trussing kit - it looks like a metal toothpick) and it popped out pretty easily.
Your video resulted pretty useful, thanks! I am trying to set up a water bottle for using with a hydration pack tube and from your video it seems it would be easier to adapt the hose using the quick link or the hydrolink adapter kits instead of the bottle's own bite valve since I wouldn't need an additional gasket. Cheers!
For the dowe/pin, I was able to push the lid forward enough to make a gap and then push the pin out from inside - no knife needed. Just one of the thin plastic phone leavers.
I managed to dissemble everything less than a min, skip the knife part, skip the pliers for pulling things out except for resembling around minute 4:00 that you can use a rubberband pull it out, but I use secure hold hairclips metal bendable ones for haircuts, instead of the knife for dowel, others comments are right, push forward the cap and focus on the right side lift it up high and hard, it will make the dowel pop up very little (return the right side and slide up (as it was) (no need to get the dowel from the inside it will just fall out once right side is back in place) then just flip the cap and dowel falls right out because all it needs is to be removed a little bit, for assembling the inner piece, push it into the cap and just like video showed before you clip the piece then pull, wrap a rubberband and feed it through the hole then shimmy it through, my rubberband broke after many 5-6 times of reassembling, so I just use hairclips and I twist the silicone and pushed it higher and then I pull it out and then I just finish assembly. Hope this helps😊 edit, I hardly remove the silicone from cap, using method above you can remove dowel without even needing to remove the silicone, then you can just get drop soap and water in the silicone hole and rinse it off and to dry just get a napkin and bend a small paperclip and wrap the napkin to dry it, honestly, this makes cleaning much quicker and less hassle for daily cleaning. I leave cap, silicone bite valve, straw, and bottle separate when drying
Nice video! Little wire cutters are pretty handy for prying out the plastic dowel also, if you've got some handy. Unfortunately I had a go at this prior to finding your great video and managed to tear that internal "throat" bit of plastic when trying to push it back through with a chopstick. I don't think that part is replaceable and not having any luck melting it back together with a soldering iron.
How on earth are we supposed to get that tight little pin out of there? I've done it ONCE before but I had forgotten how frustratingly hard it was to get out of there. 🥺
Hi did you have a problem with the lid that won't closed after sometimes? i have bought two caps and both of them were failed to closed after several months of usage. just wan to know if anyone has the same problem
What if your dishwasher is broken and you have to wash each piece by hand and you can NOT get the disgusting taste of Dawn out of your mouth piece? HOW DO I DO IT??
You are pulling out the plastic dowel wrong. You are meant to push it out of its place by sliding something like a butter knife in between the top and bottom piece to push it out rather than pry it out.
How would you put it all together when you wrenched that little screw out with a knife and plyers??! How can it go back together when the screw head is all jacked up? 😂
Neat, was a real pain to find a guide so thanks for making this!
4:00 I found it pretty effective to tie a twine to the rubber cap to pull it through the mouthpiece.
Thx! I was struggeling so much with this part, was about to give up when i found this comment^^ :D
@@rabuea Glad to have been able to help!
Definitely do this, you could poke a hole in it with anything else
I was going to post the same method. I used dental floss as its clean and strong enough to do the job.
omg thank you! this worked flawlessly!!
Thanks for making this! I used a thumb tack to poke the dowel at an angle and leverage it out and then just pull it with my fingers and it worked quite well! The knife felt a little dangerous for me especially since the dowel on mine was a bit sunken in. Thumb tack didn’t even cause too much damage to the dowel. Feel so much better knowing how to properly clean this, thanks.
1:59 a better way to get this dowell out is to start the process of removing the top and you can get a small opening on the side. Then you insert a butter knife behind the dowell and push it through the hole. Works great and saves the dowell. Just be careful when you pry the top off
Great video thanks. We ended up using a cheese knife with great success and very little damage. No visible damage. I also found it’s easy to scoop and pull the middle straw piece through with something round and long. I used the lever from a nail clippers, but you could easily use a paint brush - would be easier than tweezers. Thanks 😊
Thank you for the walk-through! For that dowel I used a hook/pick set. Made extracting the dowel easier with the finer slightly bent hook.
I wrote to Camelbak about the design and pointed to your vid, but the response was .... get a flip lid bottle! The design changes over the years could have addressed thorough cleaning by better designing it for disassembly so it's a bit disappointing.
I appreciate you sending them my video. Unfortunate they didn’t have a better response but I guess it would be someone from customer service not the actual design team.
To be honest, Contigo bottles are much worse to pull apart. I love the Nalgene bottles and lids for their simplicity
@@huntingwaterfalls Best vid explaining the takedown of the lid. Wish they'd fix the servicability of the drinking straw mechanism. As a design it's good because you can drink without the bottle obscuring your field of view (like when you're stopped at the lights grabbing a drink). Or for whatever reason you want unobstructed view. Plus it's no spill or leak (bite valve), so there's no problem with water sloshing around. If they keep the bottle's thread pattern the same and come up with a replacement/improvement - great.
Also peeved with bottle designs like Klean Kanteen that change the width across the similar product range...(that's another topic)
I'm so disappointed in Camebak because I still have an old bottle from >10 years ago without these extra rubber parts that works fine & doesn't grow mold like these new ones do. I'm just dumbfounded as to how they could redesign lids in such a worse way that basically harbors mold, mildew, & germs inside the lid! It really sucks.
I was able to get the skinny straw out and back in by wrapping a bread tie around the small end and feeding that through.
Cleaning the lid is like field stripping a handgun😂
you're totally right 🤣
For the dowel, I used a metal skewer (the kind that come with a turkey-trussing kit - it looks like a metal toothpick) and it popped out pretty easily.
Your video resulted pretty useful, thanks! I am trying to set up a water bottle for using with a hydration pack tube and from your video it seems it would be easier to adapt the hose using the quick link or the hydrolink adapter kits instead of the bottle's own bite valve since I wouldn't need an additional gasket. Cheers!
For the dowe/pin, I was able to push the lid forward enough to make a gap and then push the pin out from inside - no knife needed. Just one of the thin plastic phone leavers.
Glad I found this video ❤
That's a great video, very much appreciated. I guess I'll stick with the Chute Mag lid then.
I am so glad I watched this. I am not going through this. I got a lime green CamelBak for $1.99 and I will spring for the $8 other chute cover.
I managed to dissemble everything less than a min, skip the knife part, skip the pliers for pulling things out except for resembling around minute 4:00 that you can use a rubberband pull it out, but I use secure hold hairclips metal bendable ones for haircuts, instead of the knife for dowel, others comments are right, push forward the cap and focus on the right side lift it up high and hard, it will make the dowel pop up very little (return the right side and slide up (as it was) (no need to get the dowel from the inside it will just fall out once right side is back in place) then just flip the cap and dowel falls right out because all it needs is to be removed a little bit, for assembling the inner piece, push it into the cap and just like video showed before you clip the piece then pull, wrap a rubberband and feed it through the hole then shimmy it through, my rubberband broke after many 5-6 times of reassembling, so I just use hairclips and I twist the silicone and pushed it higher and then I pull it out and then I just finish assembly. Hope this helps😊
edit, I hardly remove the silicone from cap, using method above you can remove dowel without even needing to remove the silicone, then you can just get drop soap and water in the silicone hole and rinse it off and to dry just get a napkin and bend a small paperclip and wrap the napkin to dry it, honestly, this makes cleaning much quicker and less hassle for daily cleaning. I leave cap, silicone bite valve, straw, and bottle separate when drying
Thanks for this
Nice video! Little wire cutters are pretty handy for prying out the plastic dowel also, if you've got some handy.
Unfortunately I had a go at this prior to finding your great video and managed to tear that internal "throat" bit of plastic when trying to push it back through with a chopstick. I don't think that part is replaceable and not having any luck melting it back together with a soldering iron.
lol I think I’m just going to buy a new water bottle at this point
How on earth are we supposed to get that tight little pin out of there? I've done it ONCE before but I had forgotten how frustratingly hard it was to get out of there. 🥺
Hi did you have a problem with the lid that won't closed after sometimes? i have bought two caps and both of them were failed to closed after several months of usage. just wan to know if anyone has the same problem
I feel like im on a movie opening a bank vault 😅 it's complicated
I wish I would have seen this video before I purchased the bottles, this is nonsense!
It's actually not as difficult to disassemble as it looks, the functionality of the bottles is worth it for me.
What does one part mean?
What if your dishwasher is broken and you have to wash each piece by hand and you can NOT get the disgusting taste of Dawn out of your mouth piece? HOW DO I DO IT??
You are pulling out the plastic dowel wrong. You are meant to push it out of its place by sliding something like a butter knife in between the top and bottom piece to push it out rather than pry it out.
Think I’ll buy a new one….
Better buy another brand.
How would you put it all together when you wrenched that little screw out with a knife and plyers??! How can it go back together when the screw head is all jacked up? 😂
It's a dowel not a screw