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 | | Posted: 08/05/08 |
| 'EXCELLENT BOTTLE' | | Strengths:
Top quality, no clever (meaning leaky) top, tough-tough-tough | | Weaknesses:
dents easily, it can be killed! | | Overall:
Really cool, top quality drinks bottle, as it gathers dents and scratches is just makes you look a more serious outdoorsy type of person, simple screw top is bomb proof,....However, they may survive being run over by a landrover but I know from personal experience that they will not survive bouncing around with toolbox, bumper jack etc in the back of a landrover (I admit this is probably a bit more abuse than they are designed to take), I now have a new one.
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| | Posted: 23/09/07 |
| 'RELAX, ITS A SIGG' | | Strengths:
Rediculousy indispensable. Will go round the world more times than you, your dad and your grand dad | | Weaknesses:
Dents easily. DO NOT USE AS A TENT-PEG-PUTTER-IN-ERER. | | Overall:
Taken mine on every trip, lightweight enough to shove in your pack and use to fill your camelbac up in streams.
nifty bit of kit that will never need replacing. Also rumored to be able to take a landie running over it. |
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| | Posted: 19/08/07 |
| 'WON'T LEAK, WILL DENT' | | Strengths:
won't leak, even after some hard abuse. Very light. Does not flavour drinks. Works well as a hot flask, if insulated. | | Weaknesses:
Looks very old very soon as it dents and the paint comes off. Expensive. | | Overall:
Basically a wonderful bottle if you can overlook its looks after a few trips, when it will look quite battered. My biggest dent was caused by dropping it full, which put a large crease in side near the bottom, and has probably reduced capacity by 5%, but no leak. Very light weight for a 1 litre bottle too. Sharp rocks have also failed to puncture it, but have added their marks... Absolutely no hint of flavouring from the inside. If using in winter, make drinks with boiling water and wrap in a spare fleece or whatever. Lasts for hours hot and all day warm. |
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| | Posted: 11/08/07 |
| 'IT IS A BOTTLE' | | Strengths:
made of good metal, no bad taste when drinking plain water, | | Weaknesses:
dens very easily, mine even came with a dent in it! paint flakes off.sometimes a little expensive. | | Overall:
good soldid bottle, lasts for for years, i have had mine for well over 8 years, i would suggest putting a sticker on yours so you know it is yours,i did this and it works. |
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| | Posted: 09/08/07 |
| 'EVERY SIGG TELLS A STORY!' | | Strengths:
Dents can be read by 'those with the gift' like the lines on your palm, holds its water when all around are losing theirs, doesn't taint, surprisingly lightweight, can take boiling water (though beware of holding it!). | | Weaknesses:
The big weakness that hasn't yet been mentioned here is how cold it is to the touch in winter. Also the neck is pretty narrow which can make filling it tricky. | | Overall:
There's not much to be said that other users haven't already mentioned - very tough piece of kit as metal is malleable so it dents instead of cracking like many plastics. It is a much loved friend that travels with me all over the world, gathering dinks and (sometimes) I can remember what did them!
However, I felt it worth putting in my review for those who haven't bought one yet because there is a significant 'issue' with using an aluminium bottle that isn't mentioned by the other users. It conducts heat so fast that if you touch it in winter, it literally robs your hands of heat. Of course, you can use it with gloves on, but mitts make it difficult to open when it's tightly shut. The contents of mine have frozen on more than one occasion, and luckily the bottle wasn't full or it probably would have burst.
There is an easy, practical fix to this problem. Just wrap a few layers of duct tape around it so you can hold it with bare hands. This has a couple of additional benefits: you get to carry a good quantity of duct tape for all eventualities, the bottle is less slippery if you have fleece or wool gloves on, and the tape holds some of the lacquer onto the bottle for posterity!!! This also means that you can hot water into the bottle, stick it in a spare woollen sock and you have an instant hot-water bottle for the night ahead.
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| | Posted: 20/07/01 |
| 'the classy way to cary water' | | Strengths:
very strong, dents but carries on like a trooper! dosn't leak, dosn't taint or hold tastes
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round - has a tendancy to roll (till its dented a bit, see above) | | Overall:
strong waterbottle you don't have to worry about |
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| | Posted: 07/08/01 |
| 'the water bottle' | | Strengths:
virtually indestructable | | Weaknesses:
none really though the hydration system is eating into their market | | Overall:
The Sigg bottle may dent but is virtually indestructable. It doesn't taint the taste of the water, nor leak.
More recently I have started using a hydration bladder, which I find easier to use, but for a multi day trip I'd still be more likely to take the Sigg. |
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| | Posted: 04/11/01 |
| 'A TRUSTY COMPANION' | | Strengths:
Over the years my old Sigg has become dented, all the lacquering has come off, and has been everywhere including being clipped onto harnesses through the bottle top. A friend's was even run over by a car and still functioned although with greatly reduced capactiy. If you want to get the big dents out freezing water inside works well, although onto fill 2/3 full otherwise you get a hole in the side! | | Weaknesses:
The old dark blue bottles ahd much better lacquering. These new ones it all falls off with the dents. Also need well developed middle finger for use to twist tightened tops off. | | Overall:
A excellent bit of kit that will last forever, unlike these new hydration systems. |
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| | Posted: 03/04/02 |
| 'HARD AS NAILS !!!' | | Strengths:
These bottle are vertually indistructable (Yes they dent, But they still hold water when dented)
And they are light, I can remmember when i got my first one i was expecting it being a lot heavier than it actually was | | Weaknesses:
They do dent pretty Easily, And without the Insulated Cover there is no way to fasten it to a belt | | Overall:
The sigg bottle is one of those things that work really great but you never seem to hear about them !
Once you buy one (Or 2) you will/should have a trusty Friend for years to come !!! |
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| | Posted: 04/04/02 |
| 'THE JOE SIMPSON OF THE BEVERAGE HOLDER WORLD' | | Strengths:
It's been dropped more times than I could possibly remember, run over by a minibus, battered off rocks, trampled under crampons, hit by hockey balls and is still going strong. It looks a bit bruised and battered but still No tainting or damage to the inner lacquer, has never leaked, and probably will be with me until the end of my days. | | Weaknesses:
none whatsoever - I reckon they look better with signs of a bit of history. | | Overall:
Quite the finest drinks bottle there is. If you want a water bottle to last you forever this is it. |
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Average Rating: 4 out of 5
