Osprey Packs Quick Connect Kit

Great tight seal. Comes with an extra tip and worked great for my purpose. I wanted a way to use one of my existing hydration bladder straws with my Quore Ice Plate in a M.O.L.L.E. plate carrier attachment (search Amazon for "EXCELLENT ELITE SPANKER Tactical MOLLE Hydration Pack for 3L Hydration Water Bladder Molle Vest Accessory")that I could easy swap back n forth between my tactical training gear and my hiking pack (search Amazon for "Seibertron Tactical Molle Hydration Carrier Pack Backpack Great for Outdoor Sports of Running Hiking Camping Cycling Motorcycle Fit 2L or 2.5L Water Bladder(not Included) Khaki"). This was just the thing and makes use of my ice plate and drinking hoses easy and convenient. I would definitely buy another one for use with other hydration systems I own.

Most bike hydration packs have a built in flaw. They come with a 90 angle at the bite valve, but the hole in the should pad is sized for a straight connector. this makes feeding the tubing a PITA. As a result, you might not clean the bladder as often as you should, or maybe you will leave the hydration back out full of warm water because putting the entire pack in the fridge is also a pain.If you buy this valve, you can cut the tube from your bladder near the top of the bladder, Put the female end on the bladder and male end on the hose. Now you don't have to pull the whole bladder and hose out to clean or put the the bladder in the fridge.I love this thing! It took about 2 minutes to install. marked where to cut the tube, cut it, put the ends in hot water for a few seconds to soften them push the parts together and done.Now my hydration pack is hanging on the bars of my bike and my bladder has fresh water in it and is chllin the fridge waiting for my ride. Win!

I thought there was enough replacement tubing to actually fix the osprey the way it was shipped, but alas it's only about 6-8 inches. Have to buy tubing separately

Searched for a good long while for the best deal on a quick connect kit because despite the fact that my geigerrig bag already has a quick connect hose, I want to add a break midway up my hydration line and for easier connecting after the bag is slid down into place. It comes with an extra male end so in the future when I pick up a sawyer mini it will connect right to the bag so I can squeeze a bag of possibly contaminated water straight into my hydration pack, germ and parasite free. There are other cheaper kits with out auto shutoff for like a dollar or two less or I found other sets with auto shutoff for almost twice the cost. This is definitely the best deal I found at $10 for a kit with an extra male end and a bit of hose. I didn't need the connectors to be compatible to my pack, but I'm very happy the connectors work with the geigerrig connectors in case I do something in the future where I do require compatibility (this also means it's compatible with platypus as well because they use the same hydrapak lines and connecters as ginger rig and likely CamelBak is compatable as well).

I ordered one of these a few years ago to replace a worn out connector on an osprey hydraulics bladder and I ordered a second kit recently to make reservoir adaptors for filling or in-line use with a sawyer squeeze (using the blue and grey sawyer 28mm to in line adaptors that came with the squeeze filter). The same adaptors can use used to convert any 28mm soft bottle into a reservoir or refill a reservoir from any 28mm bottle. How fantastic! I love that the female end of the quick connect seals closed when not connected to prevent spills, so you can disconnect it from the male end/the rest of the tube and no water will spill or leak.They seal in very snugly, this is by design. However, you can pull the adaptor out of the house easily after running under warm water. I saw in another review that someone got frustrated because they inserted the adaptor into the wrong length tube and threw out the entire bladder - wow! No need to do that, run it under warm water and pull it out. I think this represents a massive user error and is in no way the fault of the manufacture. You can disconnect and reconnect several times using this method.I have been using Osprey Hydraulics and other Hydrapak products nearly every day over the past 5 years. Other than replacing one worn out part (for $10) I have had no problems at all. They have a lifetime warranty, they are easy to clean (dishwasher or bottle bright tablets), they are filter compatible, and they LAST. I can't recommend these products enough and I use them for running, trail running, hiking, and backpacking in both summer and winter conditions.

Bought one of these to test compatibility with my Hydrolink equipped military Camelbak. This was the version with Male connector on the end of the drink tube going to the bladder (which has a female receptacle molded into it) and a female connector at the bite valve end, into which you plug a bite valve.Told you that to tell you this- you can plug the Camelbak Male end of the drink tube into the Osprey female connector, but you cannot plug the Osprey male into the Camelbak female. This works for my needs, as I am plugging a Mini Sawyer filter into the bladder. I cut off the Camelbak tube about an inch from the barbs, and plugged the cutoff end into the Osprey female. Cut drink tube end gets the Osprey Male, and plugs in. And, done.Be aware there are at least three different kinds of 'military' Camelbak connections at the bladder- a long shank Male, short shank Male, and a female (which is just another long shank Male, without a shutoff valve, so the bag cannot be removed from the pack with the drink tube disconnected unless you want a mess. I think the latter is the CBRN environment bladder, but haven't been able to get confirmation .This MAY work with the Camelbak Quick Link setup, but I don't use that system so can't confirm.

Needed a quick disconnect for a helmet installation and this fit the bill. I did have it disconnect during a race. A branch snagged it and pulled it apart. I most likely I didn't push it fully together. Time will tell.