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[Buccal]

Got two phantom days of work, so knocked this up just then,,,, any idea of what this engineered marvel is ???? Lol.

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Edited by Buccal, 08 July 2016 - 02:57 PM.

[Leichardti]

Auto Waterchanger?

[Buccal]

Nope,,, could see why you thought that though.

[BigSkip]

Its clearly a white container with a pump on the side.

See, no that tricky

[Westie]

a dosing pump?

or a prefilter?

[Leichardti]

Water heating contraption? Or those ^

[Buccal]

Nope, it is however as said, container with pump on the side,,,, What does it do,, or what is it for ?

[BigSkip]

Well, the pump looks like a low flow high pressure type to me, the hoses suggest its ment to work over a long distance. Apart from that cant tell without another angle on it.

[Delapool]

Distillery??

[Stormfyre]

a homemade douche kit?

[Westie]

^ ooh that sounds like fun! Can I try?

[Buccal]

Lol, if I leave it for any longer, the humor may turn into sexual jokes lol.
Basically it's just a gravel cleaner,, or used for sucking up waiste in corners and dead spots.
I have a lot of 40mm pvc delivering water to my tanks, on the inside of it is a bio-growth, which breaks free and settles as sediment in my tanks,,, but I'm slowly getting rid off it all using a cultivated beneficial bacteria that's burns the waiste up.
So I've installed that gadget now and run two splits of it with the standard garden hose male ends, so the gravel siphon tube can be connected to do one side of room then reconnected again for other half.
So I just flick the switch and I get 35psi worth of suction that's continual no matter how long a hose or how weak the gravity is, and crap and water is ejected straight out side,,, nothing to set up, flick the switch and ready to go,,,,,
Below is its eventuation.

For some tine I had a idea that I was busting to do since a few years ago when I installed a self priming pressure pump and hose on my boat as a deckwash.
I used the pressure of the pump, which creates suction on the rigid airtight container.
The container is serving as a pressure draw and also a sediment tank where sand or snail shells or whatever don't pass through the pump but soft waiste is fine.
Couldn't believe how well it works lol,,,, flick the switch and your away siphoning up waiste, even tanks on ground syphon fine that aren't assisted by gravity.
Make life just a bit easier.

a homemade douche kit?

have you been giving these away to the odd moderater and committee peoples ??

Edited by Buccal, 08 July 2016 - 08:02 PM.

[Delapool]

It sounds really good. Do you have to prime it?

[Buccal]

No it actually self primes,, it takes about two minutes, but once primed, it's good to go for the rest of the day without priming.
Siting for a few hours, I'd say it will need to reprime again as it will slowly Lose its built up suction pressure.
I reckon one of those small 10liter plastic Gerry cans would work good for this,

[Delapool]

Geez, sounds even better! How does it self-prime if you don't mind explaining? I always thought pumps could push water quite a way but had trouble pulling the water to the impeller (ex-hobby farmer )

Edited by Delapool, 08 July 2016 - 10:08 PM.

[Buccal]

I think it's a piston driven thing,, with turning it on with no water, it actually blows air 35 psi actually,,, so if it can push air vigorously and maintain a strong pressure, then at a constant draw, it will slowly suck the water through towards the intake, once it hits the intake of pump, the pump jumps onto life and pumps a fluent very slow water stream, but it's driven by a psi generating pump so it's like a very talky flow, in terms of cars so to speak.
But I use the internal area of the plastic container to build a stronger draw,,,, in operation, the sides cave inwards with the intense 35psi draw.
Pump size suits fine light debri pickup,, no heavies.