Awesome video. I am looking for something to empty my inflatable bathtub back into the actual bathtub. I was told the shaker hose must move downward, it seems the shaker pulls up out of the barrel just find. The shaker I would use would only be about 2 ft. deep up/over into the bathtub. Thank you.
Thank you thank you thank you for making this video! I'm so new to this all. I appreciate your love that you emit in this video. You speak so clearly and why and how to do things. It's wonderful! I feel like I can learn from a friend. Thank you!!
I'm new to the pool world. We have an 8' intex pool with a pump filter. I haven't added anything to it. Just been skimming it and brushing it. How can we use white vinegar to keep it clean intsead of using chlorine?
I am looking at the Green Power grain mill, which is about $300.00 , and has the flywheel so it can be motorized if I want to later on. Thank you for this helpful video !!
I used it to get water out of an aquarium. It is used to unclog your sink. Mine had German on it. But I saw a YT vid on it. Harbor Freight - Pittsburgh Automotive Multi-Use Transfer Pump Review. Same Idea. I used it to get the air out of my long tube and so get the water to my kitchen sink. It worked perfectly. You leave the tube hanging on the ground and it gets the momentum to reach the sink. The Romans already used this simple principle.
Does anyone know where I can get a food-safe jiggler siphon for extracting drinking water? (All the jigglers I can find are copper, not exactly food safe).
Ha pretending to siphon water, we all know in biden's 2022 with gas prices being what they are what that hose gets used for late at night. who would suspect an elderly lady. have to get my wife one of these.
Hi Kathy. Just watched your video - brilliant! I live in the UK and have just purchased the shaker siphon. A totally new concept to me and it didn't include instructions. I couldnt get the thing working until I watched your video on youtube. Cheers. Take care and all the best. Miles. 👍.
Actually for this and a lot of other applications one only needs a length of 3/8" clear tubing. For this barrel application I would use 10-12 feet of tubing. You just feed most all of the tubing into the barrel or fuel tank, whatever, pinch the end or cap the end with your thumb and pull the tubing back out. The pinch or your thumb capping the end has the same effect as sucking. When you are pulling the tubing out, you are pulling the liquid out to continue syphoning. May not work great with fuel tanks that have baffles in them as it isn't very likely but the tubing could possibly get hung up in the baffling.
Barrel pumps are very handy, especially for the large 200 litre/50 USG type. We use them for storing water, gasoline and Diesel fuel mainly, which brings me to my point: if you keep more than one type of liquid on hand, it's not a bad idea to have a separate, dedicated pump for each type, and to label the pump at least 2 ways. We've adopted the colour convention that usd to be standard for jerry cans - red for gasoline, yellow for Diesel, blue for water. Each pump is painted in the colour, and the word "water" or "gas" or "Diesel" is put on with a paint marking pen. (Those can be bought from welding supply stores for less than $2 each, and they paint in them is very durable). Of course, you can adapt that to match whatever colour scheme you're using. Although the plastic pumps have become quite good, they do not fare so well in very cold temperatures. I'm old enough, and old-fashioned enough that I still use metal barrel pumps. These are readily available for gas, Diesel, oil, etc. but can also be found in a "water-safe" version. (I believe that type has an internal poly coating, but I haven't taken mine apart). I've found that some of the industrial supply houses sell this type of pump cheaper, and of a better quality, than some of the 'consumer" supply outlets. Doing this may seem like overdoing things, but it's a way to avoid the chance of cross-contamination - easy enough to do by accident if someone is tired, or if it's dark. Thanks for making this video.
Great idea. My good syphon, (the same as your red one), wore out so I've been trying to use one of those shaker hoses which is hard to start. I'll use the 'stick' off of the old syphon to attach to the shaker hose.
Thanks for sharing - what a genius inventions- I will use one to recirculate the water in my pool to a system that uses solar to keep the water warmer longer - Thanks again
I think this is a bit more complicated than it needs to be. You can use a perineal bottle of warm water to squirt to clean yourself & then just dry w/a washcloth. You can get bottles of perineal spray just like hospitals use that do not require rinsing.....spritz a little on a cloth, use to clean yourself. No gloves needed. Using regular soap is going to require a thorough rinsing. Perineal bottles are the poor man's bidet & the nice thing about them is most have a nozzle which simplifies the process.....fairly inexpensive. I got mine for $7. each. Food for thought: why are so many of us content using just dry tp after going to the toilet? Would we be OK using just dry tp to clean off #1 or #2 if it was anywhere else on us ? Probably not. We'd want water. Water cleans better.
This video is similar to various instructional videos I've seen made from the 40s/50s where there's only pure info, no fluff, and really gets the job done. Thanks. I'm curious if this would work for syphoning water from a tub to a toilet tank (which is elevated higher than the tub) when water is shut off in our apartment. Might need to do an experiment next time. In a gender blind world, it wouldn't matter that you're an older woman doing such a useful video, but, from what I've learned, women have a lot of useful things to communicate, and a lot of them get ignored by stubborn men who don't know how to listen. In other words, I'm glad I didn't have to watch another 20 to 40 something guy not actually show liquid coming out of the hose and at what rate.
Yes, you should be able to siphon from the tub to the toilet no problem. I use a couple of different types of safe ends when I am disinfecting and fully soaking my cat litter box and have to dump out or get rid of many gallons of water in a plastic tub on the floor into the toilet.
IDo you know of anything that will attach to a standard garden hose? I collect rain water in a barrel, but during big rainstorms the barrel will overflow. I want to set it up so that when the water gets to a certain level, I can start siphoning it off and drain it through a long water hose to another area. I live in Hawaii, so I get lots of rain at times, so I need to drain it off at times, but save it at others.
Thank you! We just experienced a water shut-down due to some idiot contractor who cut the pipe to our neighborhood. We have two big barrels of drinking water but only an electric bilge pump. So what if electricity was cut off, too? No way to get the water. Amazon, here I come!
We have multiple siphon pumps that will cost you less through our distributors look for model 4005 or 4006 on the search. These also are all virgin PE not like your pvc and who knows what else in the metals. Call Action Pump if you have any issues finding the distributors or if you need help for dispensing out of totes we have a solution as well.
