I hadn’t given much thought to water bottles. For decades, I’ve used the usual bicycle water bottles for bike riding and wide-mouth Nalgene bottles for boating and camping. You open the valve or lid, take a drink, and close it up. It was as simple as can be. At least until I chanced upon the Spray Bottle from Lunatec. It is made of BPA-free plastic and comes in four sizes: 650ml, 750ml, 1,000ml, and 1.5 liter. The bottle sides are marked with milliliters and fluid ounces.The lid is what makes the Spray Bottle interesting. At its center is an air pump that provides pressure; its cylinder extends down into the bottle and the piston rod rises from the center of the lid. When the bottle is pressurized, the gray disc in the middle is the trigger for the spray.The intake for the pump is a slender, flexible tube with a 3/4″-diameter cylinder attached to its end. It has a screen on its bottom and a weight inside which helps shift the intake to the lowest point of the bottle, no matter what position it is in, even upside down.
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Sounds handy, Chris. What about cleaning or washing out the pump mechanism?
The instructions supplied with the Spray Bottle note:
Clean with soap and water as needed. The base is dishwasher safe for top rack only. The lid is NOT dishwasher safe.
There is no mention about cleaning the pump mechanism, but the pump barrel is threaded and easily removed to get to the inner workings of the pump.
Glad I read this because I was just getting ready to order one for you because I was positive that you would find many uses for it. “Am I right or am I right?” I have two of them and gifted several to friends and family and I get rave reviews every time. It seems you have figured out just about everything it can do. I used the stream function to train our cat to be good and to come in when we want to lock up at night. And I have washed my wife’s hair with it while camping using warm water in it. I recently read about a couple of campers that put out two lightning-started forest fires using the Lunatec and hauling a bucket of water to the fires to aid in making refills.