My first attempt at this and with the hot weather we are having lately not a bad time to play with water.
At the top is a length of 90mm PVC pipe. Then left to right:
- Assembled inlet side using a Stormwater Threaded Access Coupling with a Threaded Storm Cap screwed on, inside this are the shade mesh and scrubber pad filters.
- Scrubber filters.
- One of the shade mesh filters with its compression ring.
- The outlet assembly, like the inlet but turned over to show the other side.
- Threaded storm cap (with no outlet hole or nozzle) that screws onto…
- Last but not least – straws!
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Shade mesh filters with compression rings.
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The completed unit ready for testing. Next to build is the low pass filter.
LPF: No need for threaded ends caps here so saved a bit of money and used the push on storm caps (with PVC glue). Inlet at bottom with outlet above this.
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Chassis punch set – something that was a must to have many years ago if you were a electronics enthusiast constructing valve (vacuum tube) equipment. Assorted O rings are also handy.
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That’s looks pretty good but I’ll take the front off and polish the brass ‘nozzle’ some more.
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Can’t see the improvement in the picture but disturbance has been reduced.
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Like most I started with just a drilled hole in the plastic with a countersink on the outside – awful results. The nozzle is the most critical component and I need to find something – but what?
A few days later while doing other stuff came across a cardboard box with old water fittings – that belonged to my dad – and in there found a brass screw-on hose fitting; like a threaded end cap with a fiber washer – hmm.
Used the bench drill to drill a hole as carefully as I could, then countersunk the outside edge and finished with polishing with emery paper.
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Installed everything in a mini bin…
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The main unit is clamped to a length of pine which is secured from the outside of the bin with a couple of roofing screws with the rubber washers providing good friction to hold the nozzle steady at any arc position.