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I found it easier to fit blue armature which fits to the dial at the top into the filter before putting the filter into the blue insert. Once it's clicked into place you can then slide them both in and it fits - not snugly, because the finishing on it is rubbish, but it fits and does the job.
It's all pretty terrible to be honest, the original blurb was:
"At the heart of Peak Water is our innovative disc filter, combining precisely calculated flow dynamics with our new ‘filter maze’ system"
The graphic on their kickstarter suggests that the amount of time the water spent in the filter is the variable.
It isn't.
My first filter started making the top chamber stink like paint. I complained, they sent me a new filter - so I opened up the old one. There's no maze. All that blue dial does is changes how covered/uncovered a little hole is that allows water to pass through without touching the resins that are inside the filter. The rest of the water just gets dumped straight through the resins - it's just a big empty chamber, filled with the mushy resin stuff, no maze, no clever flow dynamics. It's literally mixing uniformly filtered water with unfiltered water rather than varying the time that all of the water is exposed to the filter.
They've pointed out that other filters simply pass water from top to bottom and suggest theirs is different. The only difference with theirs is that it mixes top to bottom filtered water with unfiltered water. And in some cases, gives off some pretty foul odours.
I'm not impressed, especially given it was unapologetically delivered 2 years late - even with funding from Innovate UK.