Nato 58 bottle O-rings

[Andrew Middleton]

Ladies & Gents,

I have 3 Nato 58 plastic water bottles, all a couple of years old and all in good nick. However, they all seem to leak slightly now, therefore I assume the O-rings are on the way out. Does anyone know if I can get replacements?

 

[AJB]

Hello,

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I just wanted to be alerted if anyone has an answer!

Sorry to waste your time!

 

[Ogri the trog]

Andrew,
I know the ones you mean, I might even have a similar item hiding in the garage. If you can accurately measure the diameter of the seal itself and the hole that it fits in, including the cross-section diameter, I can have a look when I get back to work. I can't promise, but if theres something there to fit, I can post them on.

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[risby]

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I just wanted to be alerted if anyone has an answer!

Sorry to waste your time!

No worries but I thought I'd point out you don't have to post a message to be alerted. You can "subscribe to thread" with the thread tools menu and then you'll receive an email when someone adds to the thread.

 

[AJB]

Well I didn't know that. Thank you very much
AJB

 

[Great Pebble]

Don't have any, but the NBC top comes packaged with a couple.
They appear on evil bay fairly regularly and generally go for buttons.

 

[leon-1]

This may not be a massive help to you, but these used to get lost quite frequently, a lot of the time you would find an elastic band in the top keeping things water tight.

The other option is to take thin replacement soles and cut O-rings out of them, I have done it before and it works well enough.

 

[martin]

Try http://www.strikeforcesupplies.co.uk/ I got some replacement caps from him at the Wilderness Gathering in 2004.

 

[Andrew Middleton]

Gents,

Thanks for the tips. I might try all of them! I'll take some measurements and be in touch, if necessary.

Cheers, Andrew

 

[jay120970]

hi there i have two of these o rings in my hand now
you can have them if you like so you can double up on them to get a tight fit
email me yer addy ill pop them in the post for you
j.roberts7@tiscali.co.uk

 

[Batfink]

Another option is to give Mark at Field Textiles a call. He often has handfulls of them lurking around in his warehouse (no affliliation blah, blah, blah!).

 

[Andrew Middleton]

Jay120970, Just sent you an email. Andrew

 

[clcuckow]

Go the B&Q and in the plumbing section you will find a small pack of assorted O rings one of the fits perfectly. I got one a those cheap clone patten 58's and it leaked like a sieve till I replace the O ring with a B&Q one.

 

[jay120970]

seals sent out today ok mate

 

[running bare]

i was going to suggest halfords but looks like a job done.

 

[Andrew Middleton]

Jay,

Received the seals today. They seem to have done the job nicely. Thanks very much.
Andrew