Hey everybody welcome back to Sagan Life. 
Today we are gonna do a comparison on
55-gallon drum pump kits. So if you have
a 55-gallon drum in your garage full of
water with no idea how you're going to get it out or if you happen to own one of these...
if you can see that this is it is the Water Basics Emergency Pump and Filter Kit. We are
going to compare this to the Sagan Life Aqua Drum water filter and pump kit, so let's
get started. Okay so the first thing we
did was test the Water Basics Emergency
Filter and Pump Kit,  and I'm gonna be
honest with you I had a few problems
initially. I'm gonna show you everything.
In the end we had a better result than
what we had initially thought but we had
quite a few problems with it. First of
all the tube tubing came off into my
drum and I had to fish it out with a
coat hanger and a pair of kitchen tongs.
There is really nothing I can say here.
It kind of speaks for itself. Just be
super careful when you are putting the
tubing on the underside of the cap,  make
sure that it's twisted on extremely
tightly and maybe keep coat hanger and
a pair of kitchen tongs in your
emergency kit.
The second problem we had was that it
initially exploded. Here you can see what
I'm talking about in this video clip
here we were my cook my associate and I
were trying to get it to work and it
exploded. So,  I put together the water
basics kit following the directions on
the packaging and I was pretty sure I had it
right but I couldn't get the water
flowing so I called my associate to come
and help me at this point.  I didn't
realize that I had left the camera on so
you will see a lot of my back but you'll
get the gist of what's happening. I had
started by taking the pump off just so
he could check and make sure that I had
gotten all the components together
correctly. All looked good so we're ready
to give it another try. As you can see
he's going to try pumping the same way
that I did but to no avail.
Then all of a sudden the whole front
portion of the pump and filter blew off!
So we spent the next several minutes
trying to figure out how to put the pump
and filter back together again. There are
no instructions that come with the kit
that tell how to do this and so we just
did the best that we could. We did end up
putting a piece in upside down which is
the reason that I ended up getting so
soaked trying to use it and why it was
almost impossible to use but the whole
filter as you can see did blow apart and
we were a little perplexed as to how to
put it back together again.
Unfortunately we had the same thing
happen again once we got it put back
together, put the filter on and started
pumping the whole front of the filter
kit blew apart and so when we put it
back together the way that we thought we
needed to put it back together we
initially got it wrong so that is why I
I first got so soaked with the water basics
filter kit. Here I am trying to use
the water basics pump with a piece put
in backwards and of course it doesn't
work well at all.
The whole thing pretty much did come
completely apart and is put together
with cheap parts, grease and a flimsy
gasket which did come off so I was really
struggling here and did end up getting
fairly soaked. This is definitely not a
position that you want to be in with
your 55-gallon drum and that would be
the little piece of gasket that we lost
as you can see the parts of the pump are
slipping and sliding and not staying put
together so you almost have the whole
grasp it and hold it together with your
hands to get it to pump. We did try to
give it our best shot as you can see by
the end of the filming I was completely
soaked so we decided to retry it and
these are our results.
What we did today:  I'm going to show you
we took it apart put it back together
again
and put one of the pieces in it almost
looks like it's on backwards but this is
actually the way that it needs to go to
work properly
and it does work quite a bit better but
still initially when we had it put
together first off it did explode it
completely fell apart but in order to be
fair and balanced we did put it back
together again and it's working much
better now. So let me show you how to put
it together correctly. Okay, so when the
filter burst apart this piece came off
and that's the piece that's held on with
the gasket and what we initially did
was we took this
piece and placed it on like that and
because that just seemed obvious, but we
tried today and put it on this way and
this is how it was able to work much
better. So if yours should come apart the
concave part goes in so hopefully you
can see that this makes the filter work
a little bit better, but still I mean I'm
kind of covered with gooey grease and
stuff from whatever it is that they use
to put this filter together so you know
I can't see a lot of good things about
it but we did get it to work.
i wanted to let you know that so here I
have the filter and pump properly put
back together again and as you can see
you did you can get a fairly good stream
of water I'm just shooting it out the
door this does still come off the gasket
We lost the gasket.
Like I said there are just a few flaws I
don't think that's supposed to
come apart either but but you do get a
fairly good stream of water.
Let me show you the AquaDrum Filter system,  an easy way to get water out of your
55-gallon drum. It includes the cap with
a tubing which attaches underneath so
the filter drops down into the drum. 
Screw on the cap and then you'll attach
the tubing with the spigot. It has a
Quick Connect so it just snaps on.
I had already attached the hand pump so now you're good to go. The drum must be
pressurized in order to work. That's why
the hand pump comes in so handy.
Squeeze the hand pump repeatedly to create some pressure inside the drum then simply
slide open the open / shut valve on the
flow spigot you'll see the water flows
quickly from the drum. The AquaDrum 
filter system provides about six cups of
clean drinking water every minute. Since
the water inside your 55-gallon drum is
not heavily contaminated to begin with,
the water filter and pump kit will
purify the water of about five 55 gallon
drums. That's about 275 gallons
of fresh clean drinking water.
Pretty darn good! That is absolutely
delicious and I have no idea how long
the water has been in this drum but the
AquaDrum Filter Kit has safely removed
all the bacteria, virus  Cryptosporidium,
Giardia,  any other toxins that might be
floating around in there. It's a very
effective filter and as you can see it's
super easy to use and very dependable. We did not have a good experience with the
water basics filter and I was basically
soaked when I was done using it. We  want
to give it a fair shake so what
we're doing is sending back the
one that exploded on us
yesterday and we are ordering a new one.
As soon as we get that we will shoot
another video and see if see if we get a
better result. If any of you have the
water basics filter I would recommend
getting it out and trying it just to be
on the safe side. There were a few parts
that were pretty shoddily put together and so you
want to make sure in case of an
emergency that you're safe,  that you are
able to utilize this water. So get it out
and try it. Shoot a video and post
it and let us know what you're
experiencing. Please subscribe to our
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tested and tested
until they absolutely quit
working so we can tell you without a
doubt how effective they are and for how
long.
If you have other water filters make
sure that you can see those test results,
Make sure that they'll post them and show them to you because that's absolutely key.
You deserve to see that information
about the water filter product that
you're using. So in the meantime - Cheers I hope you all have a good week and thanks
for joining me again for this video.  I'm
April and I look forward to seeing you
in the next video! Thanks so much
