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<font face="Arial">Very nice Martin</font>, a demo of the Kiss
principle. ;-)<br>
a design goal also very useful in Stoves design. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle</a><br>
<br>
<br>
But you can't glue (HD)PE.<br>
There are however a few alternatives that may even make it more
simple, <br>
especially to 3° worlders without plastic welding equipment.<br>
<br>
- a simple garden hose can, e.g. with some rope or wire, held in
that position.<br>
- a smaller 1" or less, HDPE pipe can be made real warm and bend in
that shape <br>
( 4" going to be difficult I'm afraid. ). Heating can be done with
hot water, or the sun,<br>
or piping the exhaust from a truck through it, or why not, use it
a time as a stove chimney. ;-)<br>
If the curves tends to collaps during bending, fill the tube with
sand first.<br>
- Make it in PVC rain or drain pipe then it can be glued, and those
90° elbows<br>
are stronger because they fit over each other instead of being
but welded.<br>
<br>
Grts<br>
Bruno M.<br>
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Op 3-4-2012 23:21, Boll, Martin Dr. schreef:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Dear
low-tech-fans of the list,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">From my side it
is free to use and I think, if published
in the stoves-list, it will remain free. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">I think it can
be even useful under poor water-access.
It can make a minimal quasi “current-water” out of a
bucket.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">It’s just using
simple all-known-physics in the
simplest way. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Background:The
history of the barometer ( <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer</a>
)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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 (“<st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Usa</st1:place></st1:country-region>”)
which is flowing here
nor like the village (beginning With “Bad” ), because
it is not
bad. And I don’t feel as inventor, though I am proud
of its simplicity. The
3 pictures attached describe clearly form and
function. ( each picture about
140 KB)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The first
edition (picture with thick tube) is all in
one line: down-up-down-up. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
Wetterau-water-lever can stand up or be hanged-up
without loosing water. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">It can be
dumped with one end into a bucket, to tap
water, but does stop, always staying filled up for
further use.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">- You can use
different plugs to stop water-flow or
minimize the flow.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">It could make
some sort of “current-water”
out of a simple bucket.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Connected with
a hose with small holes and plugged
end, it could be used as micro watering for few
plants.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Even if the
lever runs out of water, when connected
to a long irrigation-tube it can be easily re-filled;
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">-but an
additional aeration-tube can make that the
lever is not sucked empty.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">My main
intention was, to get water from one drum to
the next, without drilling holes into a drum, -which
can possibly cause leaks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Built it, have
fun to share and tell how you
transform it and transform its application.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Martin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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