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It holds water but it isn't very durable,
Pretty thin walls on this container; I have bumped it a couple of times, dropped it on e or two times and looks like I threw it off a tall building. It's like it's made out of wax, if you bump it or drop it, your "accidents" will show. It's the Dorian Gray's picture of metal water bottles |
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By Captain Bruisen "Cruise Director" (San Francisco, CA USA) |
| October 3, 2008 |
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Horrible bottle cap!,
I only gave this water bottle one star because if you can't drink easily from it-why have it? This screw off style cap is cumbersome and takes a total of SEVEN turns to get the cap off. Who has the time or patience when looking for a quick drink? I looked online to purchase another style cap but also found problem reviews for the other style caps. Save the $25 and look elsewhere. |
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| By Chicago Gal(Chicago Area) |
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| April 27, 2008 |
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Scratch n Dent
I purchased 37 .6L Sigg Traveler Classic bottles. They do not come individually packaged and were sent in a large box some stacked side by side others laying flat on top. There was no protection to keep the bottles from banging around and rubbing against each other. 31 of the 37 were scratched and/or dented. The 6 good ones had a plastic sleeve to protect them. Amazon reordered the 31 and sent a note to shipping to properly package them. 2 days later the 31 replacements arrived with the bottles stacked the same way as the first box. The only difference was that none of these had a plastic sleeve. All 31 were scratched and/or dented. I would not recommend buying more than one at a time to prevent shipping damage. I was not surprised at the scratches based on the packaging (or lack of) but the many dents surprised me. If they could dent like this in the shipping box I am concerned about how durable they will be. Amazon was unable to replace the replacements because they were out of stock (I wonder why?) so I switched to Kleen Kanteen. Hopefully the stainless steel will be a little more durable than the Sigg Aluminum |
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By Lawrence Ward "Harnell" (A2, Mi USA) |
| November 26, 2008 |
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Not a bad bottle, just maybe a little questionable
I've had my Sigg bottle for a while now. As a reusable water bottle goes, it's served me pretty well. Design wise, they have a good number of options now (with different prints too) but I have the classic design. It's fine for water and what not, but there's no way you could ever get ice in there (unless you froze some water inside of the bottle).
In terms of the health safety of the bottle...well, first it's clear the bottle is made from aluminum. There haven't been any 100% conclusions drawn between any relationship of Alzheimer's and aluminum...but I suppose if you're going to follow the precautionary principle, you might want to think twice about drinking from aluminum...although they say that the liner protects any leaching from the metal.
Okay, but now let's talk about the liner. Sigg of course insists that it's 100% safe. Third party tests do indicate that water held in the bottles has "no detectable BPA" in it (although if you get a copy-cat Chinese version...well...just don't get one of those). But....yes, there's a but.
The recipe for the liner is proprietary information and thus, they don't disclose how it's made or what's in it exactly. For a while, they were calling it "water-based epoxy resin." It appears that phrase is no longer on the Sigg website itself, but it's still in the description on Amazon. Of course, the company talks about how it exceeds FDA approval. Well, theoretically that's great. The only problem is....all canned food liners are FDA approved too and those for sure have BPA in them. So there's no telling whether or not Sigg liners are made with BPA....they might be...but theoretically they don't leach (or not enough to be detected at whatever levels they were looking for). Oh and for the older bottles...there's some question about having damaged linings leach. They say now that the formula is elastic and that new bottles are worry free.
At some point, you have to shrug and say, well...we're living in a chemical soup anyway. I guess it just depends how skeptical you want to be.
I still use my Sigg (not tons, but some). But I find myself leaning a little more towards using my stainless steel options. |
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| Stins reviewed |
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| December 11, 2008 at 10:53 am |
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