[Stoves] Wetterau-water-lever
Frank Shields
frank at compostlab.com
Wed Apr 4 11:51:47 CDT 2012
Greetings,
Martin
I am re-doing our back yard. I have a small pond (1 meter X 4 meters X 80 cm
deep) that I have cleaned out and want to re-design the inside for the
turtle and gold fish and one frog. Before I had the filter system in the
pond but it took up so much space I now want to place it on the outside in a
separate tank for the submergible. Your system seems perfect for moving
water out of the pond / through the filter media and back into the pond. I
will need to review and may have more questions. I am thinking a hose
through the large pipe to take the water back to the pond.
Great weather in California (~ 20c and partly cloudy)
Frank
Frank Shields
Control Laboratories, Inc.
42 Hangar Way
Watsonville, CA 95076
(831) 724-5244 tel
(831) 724-3188 fax
frank at bioCharlab.com
From: Crispin Pemberton-Pigott [mailto:crispinpigott at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 2:52 PM
To: 'Boll, Martin Dr.'; stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Cc: 'Frans Peeters'; 'Frank Shields'
Subject: RE: Wetterau-water-lever
Dear Martin
Very nice!
And you are a good heat gun welder too.
Thanks
Crispin
From: Boll, Martin Dr. [mailto:boll.bn at t-online.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 11:22 PM
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Cc: 'Frans Peeters'; 'Frank Shields'; 'Crispin Pemberton-Pigott'
Subject: Wetterau-water-lever
Dear low-tech-fans of the list,
With my Wetterau-water-lever I want you, as you like, to share with me a
simple thing; to re-make it and have fun and comfort in its simple use.
>From my side it is free to use and I think, if published in the stoves-list,
it will remain free.
I think it can be even useful under poor water-access. It can make a minimal
quasi current-water out of a bucket.
Some years ago I made an application for me to transfer water from one drum
to the next drum, without always re-filling the lever-tube.
Its just using simple all-known-physics in the simplest way.
Background:The history of the barometer (
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer )
My water-lever consists out of two on top connected barometers (type Boyle).
I propose to call it Wetterau-water-lever, because of the name of the region
where I live and where I use it for many years. I could not call it after
the small river (Usa) which is flowing here nor like the village
(beginning With Bad ), because it is not bad. And I dont feel as
inventor, though I am proud of its simplicity. The 3 pictures attached
describe clearly form and function. ( each picture about 140 KB)
It is made out of PE-water-tube. The parts are cut out of the tube with an
iron-saw, then welded together with an electrical heat-gun, armed with a
welding-mirror. You can do it with glue as well.
The first edition (picture with thick tube) is all in one line:
down-up-down-up.
The later editions have the ends bent in 60° angle out of the flat of the
upper part. The real end points in 90° direction to the long parts.
By that geometry one can fill up the water-lever, while it is laying flat on
a table. ( By the picture at one end there is a metal-tube connecting, which
can be connected to a hose).
The Wetterau-water-lever can stand up or be hanged-up without loosing water.
It can be dumped with one end into a bucket, to tap water, but does stop,
always staying filled up for further use.
- You can use different plugs to stop water-flow or minimize the flow.
It could make some sort of current-water out of a simple bucket.
Connected with a hose with small holes and plugged end, it could be used as
micro watering for few plants.
Even if the lever runs out of water, when connected to a long
irrigation-tube it can be easily re-filled;
-but an additional aeration-tube can make that the lever is not sucked
empty.
My main intention was, to get water from one drum to the next, without
drilling holes into a drum, -which can possibly cause leaks.
Built it, have fun to share and tell how you transform it and transform its
application.
Regards
Martin
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