Check this out. Possibly multiple uses
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johnnyb
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Looks cool, thanks for sharing Joseph. Would be very difficult on strange shaped containers, or containers with low levels.
I may make a version for myself, as the brass check valve won't live long with some of the things I need to transfer.
*edit: I keep a hand bike pump in my trailer that I can use either the intake or exhaust of it, to siphon or to push fluids to get them started. Like said I'll use it to siphon, or push my xjet liquids out of the lines, etc.
I may make a version for myself, as the brass check valve won't live long with some of the things I need to transfer.
*edit: I keep a hand bike pump in my trailer that I can use either the intake or exhaust of it, to siphon or to push fluids to get them started. Like said I'll use it to siphon, or push my xjet liquids out of the lines, etc.
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WASH-IT H.B.
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First time I saw something like this was 40+years ago in a car wreckers yard. They used it to drain the fuel tanks on the cars that came in. It consisted of a piece of 3/4" Clear PVC tube and a short length of copper pipe with one end rounded over a little with a glass marble inside and a small dimple about an inch back up the copper tube from the marble so it didn't come out and that was fitted to one end of the PVC tubed. It was placed into the bottom of the fuel tank (just like the video) and jiggled up and down to prime it and once the fuel came up over the top the natural syphon took over. Worked a treat.
