"Terryc" wrote in message
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George.com wrote:

I basically want to rig a bodge job for a few dollars. The outlet hose is
quite a bit bigger than a standard garden hose. I don't want to pay much
money for any hosing if possible. Unless I can get my hands on 20 odd
lengths of the WM outlet hose & find a simple way of joining them I think
I may be stuck with a smaller diameter hose (like garden hose) & some
mechanism to have to narrow the diameter down. Bunnings here would charge
about $6 per metre length which runs out to around $100 bucks for
something that would do the back lawn. Too much for my liking. If you
have any bright ideas let me know. I will report back on my progress.

Using standard garden hose is not going to work, unless the washing
machine empties into a surge tub (laundry sink?). If you try and use the
wm pump to pump it that length, you will end up burning it out.

you mean the pump will burn out if I try to force water through a NARROWER
diameter pipe? Or it will burn out if I try & pump the water 20 odd metres
down the SAME diameter pipe?

Sounds like you are just goingto have to bite the bullet and buy stuff
unless yuou want to scavenge vacume cleaner hosing or such.

I had a look round this evening & reckon I can salvage the outlet hoses from
a range of second hand dumper washing machines. If I stop bye a couple of
the big whiteware outlets & maybe bung the stores man a box of beer he may
collect them for me. The outlet hose fits onto a connection with a butterfly
clip. On the inside of the machine is another connection fixture where the
same diameter pipe feeds from the WM tub. I reckon that connection fixture
holds the key to me being able to bodge together 20 m of pipe. It won't look
pretty but it will likely do the job, dependent on your answer to my
question above.

My wife may let me get away with a crap looking length of pipe but not
likely a big bin outside the window.

rob