StillSmart

Trying to refill my carbon filter but it feels as though its glued in place
I have the long nosed pliers but it doesnt seem to want to move in a hurry
any ideas fellow distillers?

my brand new essencia filter what have they done so you cant refill......

I've no doubt to manufacturers are aware that members here, and on other distilling forums, have posted on how to refill the carbon cartridge and I'm equally sure they have taken steps to make this more difficult as it seriously affects their sales.

The only thing they could do is to use more or a stronger adhesive around the rim which sits on a 2mm ledge or the centre which sits on a similar ledge. Gentle repeated pressure will defeat the adhesive eventually.

You'll just have to lift each spoke gently at the outer rim until all are free then try to use your pliers to rotate, rather than pull, the disc by gripping the spokes as close to the centre as possible and trying to rotate it clockwise then counter clockwise. The important thing is to avoid damage to the disc.

I suppose it was inevitable that the McGuire brothers, who are the manufacturers, would try to find a way to stop us refilling this cartridge

AM

Very short sighted of them imo. Much more profit to be made with a fully customer oriented firm. True they have a great product but they are not acting 100% in the customers interests.

If they returned to the easy off lid and offered refill packs of carbon, it would reduce the cost of filtration and therefore increase their customer base and revenue. After all, we can't 'refill' the ceramic filter can we?

I think it took me a whole two minutes,after reading an old post of AM's on here,to persuade the thing to separate.
You only have to work that hard the once.
Then you are on Easy Street.
Robert.