Look for arain gutter downspoout guard. They are rond and go into 3
or 4" PVC pipe. You can use a reducer to adapt down and further
adpaters to add a hose bard to fit the garden hose. It will ast like a
strainer to keep junk out of the hose and be large enough (about like
a softball in size) so it will catch debri yet not clog up quickly. Or
just wrap a piec eof open cell foam rubber around the end to make a
sponge type filter, or buy a sponge filter sleeve that fits a
pondmaster MAG3 , 5 or 7 pump, whichare about 2" in diameter with a
hose to slip over a pump inlet screen and are perhaps 4" long. Or go
to a lfs and look for a filter tube inlet screen/ strainer. They sell
em as replacements. It would be easy to adapt it to the end of the
hose, and probablay be the smallest way to do what you want, but more
likely to clog quicker due to its size.....

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:15:06 GMT, "jw 1111"
wrote:

"~ janj" wrote in message
news On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:23:28 GMT, "jw 1111"

wrote:

I use some ordinary standard garden hose as an overflow outlet. how can i
fix something to the end of the hose, to act as a ' filter ' to prevent
dead
leaves etc from blocking it up? thanks

Not enough information. Where's the pump? ~ jan

there is no pump. its a small tank that some water flows into. instead of
just a hole (which would easily block with leaves) i have put 4 inches of
hose in to the tank outlet hole. now i need some arrangement over the hose
to act as a filter. thanks.