The AUTO SYPHON cut open - how it works

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AS ALWAYS, a QUALITY 'how it works' video. I cut an auto-syphon in half and fitted a plastic cover. Now we can see inside, and watch it in action.
Also I explain with an animation so that ANYONE can understand it!
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Here is a link to Steve Mould's channel, for the same syphon unit in operation:
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(thank you very much for the mention Steve!)
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Комментарии : 97

@BigClive 3 года назад

What a fantastic and complex video to make. Its operation is nothing like I imagined it would be. Basically a triggerable air lock.

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

Thanks Clive, I was very thankful to get the video finished in the end! I must have flushed this unit 100 times or more to get the best footage for the video! (plenty of water for the flowers below it!). It was very difficult to see how it worked, without cutting it in half and filming it in operation.

@BigClive 3 года назад

@@mrmattandmrchay I wonder if the use of copper for the final trigger pipe is to reduce the risk of a plastic one fouling up with slime, resulting in overflowing. Copper has antifungal properties.

@brunoais 3 года назад

@@BigClive That was my idea too

@CamTarn 3 года назад

Came here from bigclivedotcom's video on the same unit - thanks for solving the mystery! What a fascinating device.

@me0101001000 Месяц назад

Steve Mould made one of these, and he directed us to watch your video as well :)

@GoProFlightUK 4 месяца назад

What a fantastic video and animation. Thankyou for all the work behind this, top class!

@mrmattandmrchay 4 месяца назад

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the nice comment!

@RODALCO2007 Год назад

Many thanks for going through the trouble of showing us the works and cutting the syphon open for this demo.

@mrmattandmrchay Год назад

I just had to! It was the only way to see exactly how it worked, very little infomation available on the internet about it, if any! Thanks for the comment

@langr752 23 дня назад

Here from steve Moulds channel too. This type of content is awesome to me. I love learning how things work. I can’t wait to check out what other videos you have.!

@mrmattandmrchay 22 дня назад

Thanks very much for visiting! My channel is mainly about old lift technology, but I do go to a lot of effort to make them interesting, such as animations, timing music to the video content, etc. Hope you find something you like! :)

@riuphane Месяц назад

Excellent video! Steve Mould sent me and it did not disappoint

@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy 3 года назад

Respect to you sir, you are a clever fellow to work this out. I'm one of many people who have disassembled these things and failed to understand its secrets.

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

It did take a lot of time to plan then prepare the scenes! In the end I got a little tired of looking at the same bits and pieces. What you see here is the finished result, but I recorded literally hours of footage - better to have too much footage than not enough...! Thanks for the comment and compliment :)

@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy 3 года назад

@@mrmattandmrchay Sure, I know, 1 minute of good RU-vid material is at least 10x that in preparation.

@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy 3 года назад

@@mrmattandmrchay But that tank with the black floating things still gives me the creeps. I'm done with toilets for a good while thanks!

@mrsecurity 3 года назад

really fascinating!!! never even thought about how urinals flushed etc. now i know!

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

Perhaps, not something that you NEEDED to know lol!!

@keith800 3 года назад

This is brilliant , who ever thought this up is a genius .

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

wonder how many prototypes before they perfected it? Nowadays you could probably quite easily do this on a 3D printer!

@S.Sparrow Месяц назад

Came from Steve Mould's video, glad he linked you! Dropped a sub.

@mrmattandmrchay Месяц назад

Thank you for the info and for the sub. I've left Steve a message saying thank you!

@nordenconrad14yearsago45 3 года назад

Well made video and hard work put into it... well done mate... great animation

@shandor2522 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant scholarship and detective work-bravo! My pond has a bell siphon to send water over the earthen dam and keep the pond from overflowing in a way that would erode the dam. But since rainstorms don’t trickle like those old toilets, there’s no need for additional siphon stages, just one. If I ever notice the need, I’ll cobble together a multistage gizmo now that you’ve explained it!

@Kargoneth 3 месяца назад

Excellent demonstration. Thanks.

@paulhorn6233 Год назад

Was searching for this kind of siphons for a long time! Did not understand fully how they work. Had some bad experiences with simple bell siphons as they depend a lot on water flow and pipe dimensions to work correctly. But this is a fantastic concept!!!! thanks for this video!

@andreasu.3546 Год назад

I can't tell what's more fascinating, the ingenuity that went into making a timed water valve with no moving parts or the ingenuity that went into your reverse engineering and documenting the whole thing. Either way, great video!

@mrmattandmrchay Год назад

Massive compliment... thank you! 😀

@passacaglia28 3 года назад

I'm so fascinated at the differences between UK and US water tanks. Thanks for the video, Matt!

@MichalM 3 года назад

Crikey! A lot of effort has been put in to creating this device, even though it just flushes water! Excellent video once again Matt!

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

...this is the mrmattandmrchay channel - quality not quantity.

@carlosdevenadotuerto8143 10 месяцев назад

Very clever man. Congratulations

@Petertronic 3 года назад

Brilliant animation, really enjoyed this video

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

Thanks Petertronic, glad you enjoyed it! :)

@mrclucker1969 3 года назад

Surprisingly complex and clever solution - a cascade effect to trigger the full flush

@Steven_Rowe 2 года назад

These auto flush urinals go back a long was .I used to climb up the urinal to look inside when I was 6 so this is late 1950s. I remember all the evil looking green slime. I wonder when they were designed and by whom?

@sherwinfloyd533 11 месяцев назад

What a great video all knowledge fully absorbed

@High-Rise 3 года назад

For a person who doesn't like water tanks he does get into some detail

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

I think you'd call this "fear becoming a fascination", such as my interest with lifts - I was once petrified of them as a kid.

@Jono. 3 месяца назад

That was great. Thank you for making it!

@mrmattandmrchay 3 месяца назад

And thanks for watching Jono! :)

@dykodesigns 3 года назад

It’s basically gravity and water pressure at work. It reminds me of the high school physics examples with the communicating vessels. It’s quite a clever design. I wonder what would happen if the diameter of the small tube is enlarged. I think the small diameter is key in the pressure balance.

@maximiliaanvanlaere1298 2 года назад

Once the diameter reaches 8mm or more, there's a chance that the upcoming air (from the "downpipe") passes the falling water, stopping the waterflow. Smaller diameters will fill completely with water. The 8mm hole is an industry standard in windows & door drainage. If we go smaller, water will just remain on top.

@georgieippolito9924 3 года назад

i think the old one with the black limestone formation was a porcline basic syphon without all those cool parts. those are extremely rare where its part of the tank and can't be removed. basic bell syphons has been getting upgrades but the basic ones are still avalible and some are all clear where you can severything inside on esty. i don't think they make porcline ones anymore. did you know you could get a wine glass with a glass bell syphon inside? its made after the historic greedy cup. the first bell syphons were made long ago into ceramic cups called a Pythagorean cup. they would fill them with wine themselves and will be punished with no wine if they taken too much. clever idea no moving parts!

@12Flyboy12 Год назад

What a great "how it works" video. Well done. I went to buy some of these for my aquaponics (in Australia) and was shocked to find the prices here rather prohibitive... The standard "Bell Syphon" most aquaponics use is only good for small drains while this addresses that problem and would allow for any size downpipe. If you are ever looking for a video idea... how about how to DIY one of these... Again, great job on the video. I'm looking forward to seeing some others that you made.

@richardsmith2627 3 года назад

i did not need to know then until I watched this video.... then it was obvious that i did lol it was fascinating !

@owainpendragon5585 Год назад

subscribed, top notch video this. i'm going to watch it again.

@mrmattandmrchay Год назад

Thank very much for the compliment and thanks for subscribing Owain :)

@peterleffler2062 2 года назад

Very useful. Thank you.

@mrmattandmrchay 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@peterdeutscher1442 3 года назад

Pretty interesting this video thought... Great job, mate!

@Srinathji_Das 3 года назад

What a great demo! 😀👍

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

cool! Glad you liked it :)

@thesimplestalex7348 3 года назад

Broadmoor sirens were my favorite

@ZLDSmogless Год назад

I have a question about this: why do some long urinals make a squeaking sound when they flush?

@mrmattandmrchay Год назад

I know exactly the noise you mean. When there is no water coming down the pipes, there is air. When water rushes down the pipes, all the air has to escape, and can only escape through the small pin-holes where the water goes through. So you'll get water as well as air squeezing through those holes. The squeeking noise is the air escaping out of the tubes with the water.

@johnrowan5722 3 года назад

Great video. Would be also cool if you added dye to the water

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

Thanks for your comment and suggestion. I was actually going to do what you suggested but then decided against it, because I thought it might generally cloud up the whole area. It might have worked, but instead I put my video light on top of the capsule which seemed to help.

@SebastianC701 2 года назад

We have many of these auto syphons in urinal cisterns in New Zealand, which is very common in NZ washrooms.

@RedFathom 3 года назад

what happens when you fill the tank half way and seal the top of the tank with the hose still going inside?

@elonmask50 3 года назад

Oh the water elevator part two. What a brilliant device, easy enough to make out of plastic these days, but the original ones were rubber and cast iron.

@simontay4851 3 года назад

Making a water syphon out of cast iron is probably not a good idea. It will quickly rust.

@elonmask50 3 года назад

@@simontay4851, what do you think the old cistern tanks and sewer pipes were made of?

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

How about this one... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RlplkCASiE8.html I remember my nan had one which leaked at some point and was replaced.

@elonmask50 3 года назад

@@mrmattandmrchay, congratulations not only watching that Matt, but actually seeking it out in the first place, they really did make a whole lot of monsters under thee bed type noises.

@wr3add Месяц назад

Where do I find this in the US?

@mrmattandmrchay Месяц назад

I believe this is mainly used in the UK. These are all from the UK

@RenanDavidSoriaAhumada Месяц назад

1:12 im worried about the water, that green stuff its no good

@agems56 2 года назад

This is still overly complicated compared to one that I have seen in our school washroom in the sixties! All it had was an inverted U shaped copper three quarter inch pipe with one end about a quarter inch from the bottom of the tank! The other end was of course the drop pipe to the urinal. As,all coil of pipe was brazed into the inverted U pipe at the top and the other end of the coil was a bit lower than the top of the inverted U under water when the water level was almost at the top of the inverted three quarter inch diameter U. There was no capsule or dome.

@georgieippolito9924 3 года назад

here's something you should do for more views and subscribers. (i already subscribed) ever see those pressure vessels for toilets? there's not 1 video on RU-vid to show how it works! you litterally make the best videos. be careful with those because pressure vessels can explode. what's the mechanism behind it and how does it know when to stop adding pressure? the water psi is only 35. where does all that force come from and why does some air come out too during the flush? its obviously a sealed unit since the toilet tank is always dry so where does the air come from?

@MeaHeaR Месяц назад

Why you didunt be used colored water ¿¿¿¿¿¿

@bonusnudges 3 года назад

Just install one of those in your lift machinery room , it’ll keep unauthorised personal out

@publicmail2 3 года назад

So the whole purpose is to create a flush via a syphon with minimal moving part that can fail like seals, AND it has to work with older flush designs?

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

Yes, and I think by seals, you are referring to the ball value which requires maintenance (washer sometimes needs replacing). This design was for the automatic flushing of urinals before PIRs and solenoid valves existed. Every single public or school toilet that I can remember had one of these fitted. But it was flushing all the time even at night which must have been an enormous waste of water!

@publicmail2 3 года назад

@@mrmattandmrchay Yes exactly, some would throttle the water down to a constant 1GPM. Seals like the fluidmaster which is most popular in the US that has 1 diaphragm pressure differential seal that always fails at some point.

@alfonsgamingtornadosirenfan 3 года назад

Omg carstairs siren G have slow start Up wow

@simontay4851 3 года назад

Another interesting device ive seen before in public toilet is called a cistermisser. Could you do a how it works video about

@simontay4851 3 года назад

The Cistermiser Hydraulic Valve is installed on the supply pipe to the urinal cistern. The valve is activated by short-term pressure drops created by use of taps or WCs on the same supply.

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

@@simontay4851 Wow, I never knew that - I thought it was a battery operated PIR connected to a value which fills the tank when the room is occupied (or just after), such as the PIR in the video.

@thedjer9190 3 года назад

Need more PIR vids

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

They're on their way...!

@DanielMeakin1 3 года назад

Great video Mat it is so interesting

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@DanielMeakin1 3 года назад

@@mrmattandmrchay 😁

@janpawulon2 3 года назад

Nadal nie wiem jaki jest sens tego

@clairewatters1304 3 года назад

anyone here from mark felton productions?

@isaackingvideos 3 года назад

Huh it said this video is private before

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

forgot to upload video title photo

@Trainspotter229 3 года назад

Its for toilet

@elliotraw1170 3 года назад

Please stop doing videos of toilet pipes it’s disgusting and I doubt no one cares the reason why I supscribed to this channel is to see old lifts not toilets pipes

@mrmattandmrchay 3 года назад

I do sirens, lifts and really anything else that I find interesting. Sorry you don't like this video, but there are 600+ other videos, majority are lifts. I don't mean to sound bad here, but the content is what I chose to upload.

@battytec 3 года назад

If it really bothers you that much... Just don't watch it? At the end of the day it's his channel and if he wants to make a video about a toilet then why shouldn't he? It's not exactly what I subscribed for but to be honest I went away knowing something more than I did before I watched it.

@simontay4851 3 года назад

But he can't go travelling around to look at old lifts at the moment. The country is still in lockdown in case you hadn't noticed.