In message , Graham Harrison
writes

"chris French" wrote in message
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In message , Graham Harrison
writes
I've bought myself a water butt pump to move water between storage
points. The hosepipe I have is from a Hozelock Compact Enclosed Reel
and it's a real struggle to fit it to the pump outlet. I had to
remove the O ring from the pump to get it to go. In the pump kit
there is a piece of piping which seems to be bigger (larger
circumference) than the pipe I have (it runs from the immersed pump
up to the fitment I'm trying to attach to). I've Googled around
trying to find out what pipe circumferences (or should it be diameter
or radius?) exist but I'm not being successful. I'm quite happy to
buy a new piece of hose, I just need to know what to look for. Can anybody help?

Have you makers/model name or a photo of the relevant bit, or can
you describe it?. A direct hosefitting would probably be slightly
tapered and ridge/barbed. If it is threaded it presumably uis meant
to take some sort of fitting?

The mention of an O ring makes me wonder if it is meant to have taken
a pushfit fitting?
-- Chris French


It's one of these

http://www.karcher.co.uk/uk/Products...rigation_pumps
/Water_butt_pumps/16454530.htm

and the O ring is on the bit at the top where you push the hose on
(just below the yellow splodge which is actually a form of tap)

I'm actually doing OK now. Removing the O ring makes the hose easier
to fit and as it stretches I reckon it will become easier to refit it
when I need to. I'm not trying to fit a hozelock connector to a
pushfit - just shoving the hose of the pushfit!

OK, you've got the product there in your hands, but it that looks like
too me, and the images here seem to confirm that it is designed to take
a standard hose connector. Does one not fit?

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/2732...0-rainwater-co
llect.html

(Karcher do their own hose and fittings etc. but they all seem to be
standard IME. Certainly the input on my Karcher pressure washer does))


It's not the fastest beast in the world but it empties a 210 litre butt
in maybe 10/15 minutes depending on whether you're going up/down hill
(well, slight slope) and the length of hose in use - or those seem to
be the criteria based on a little testing this afternoon. I've bought
it to move water from butts that are connected to various gutters to
ones that aren't, and before anyone asks, the position of the
unconnected ones makes it impractical to connect them to the ones that
are connected to the gutters. Plus I'm getting fed up with using
buckets/cans to do the job.

For those that can have a hose/pipe run between them and left and are
around the same height and siphon works well. Basically dangle a hose in
one butt (down to near the bottom), prime the siphon - filling the hose
with water by water means works well for your situation. Then put the
other end in another butt. They will keep to the same depth.

It's basically the same as connecting them up at the base, but will work
over any distance, and it is easy to move things around
--
Chris French