"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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In article , K
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How easy is it to fill the hose with water if you've put a stopped in
the bottom end? - if you do it at a trickle, then the air can escape,
but try and run the water in too fast and don't you get problems?




You don't have t suck the water out of the other end to start the siphon
do you?

No.

Put a funnel in the end of the hose and stick it under the
bath tap and let the water pour in slowly.

You can actually do this for all siphoning, fish tanks, petrol
tanks, whatever. Providing you have a supply of the necessary
liquid - petrol etc to hand, to slowly pour back down the hose
to the source to make a continuous body of liquid.

If the funnel has a lip with a hole in it for hanging it up
or whatever or even just a lip you can make a hole in,
you can loop string through that and loop it around
the tap and leave it. As it takes a while to fill up.

Siphoning is no good if you're in a tearing hurry however.



Would put me off entirely.


Indeed.


michael adams

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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
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