Danny D. wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:30:26 -0500, Natural - Smoking Gun - Girl
wrote:
I'd connect a fitting that had a shut off valve
Ah, a shut-off valve makes a lot of sense!
I'll stop by the hardware store and buy a couple (one for each
nursery).
Do you think I can just pull out the green water restrictor
with pliers and shove the slip-fit shutoff valve onto the existing
white pipe coming out of the elbow?
I'm not sure .. you might have luck getting that green pc out if the glue
wants to let go, then again, you might end up breaking the elbow fitting
it's attached to, which would create a bigger headache to fix.
If it were me, I would just insert a new section of 1/2 inch tubing
(
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pro...23e7ab_300.jpg)
into the existing green fitting there .. maybe a foot or so long, and buy
fittings where I could attach a shut off valve (here is one kind:
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pro...8d7e8e_300.jpg /
here is another:
http://www.dripirrigation.com/system...png?1331253321)
to the 1/2 inch tubing. You can get the shut off valve that attaches
directly to the 1/2" tubing, or add fittings of your choice so that you can
Y off in another direction, use T fittings at that point and add 1/2"
tubing in another direction, and go from there.
So it would look like this ... the elbow green fitting1/2" tubing (about
a foot long)shut off valve longer pc of 1/2" tubing on the other side of
the shut off valve. This pc of tubing acts as a main water line so you want
it long so you can lay it around where your garden is, then you can run 1/4"
dripper tubing from your main line. You can use the shut off valve as a
pressure regulator, too, by simply not turning it on all the way which will
reduce how much water goes through your drippers, plus you can use
adjustable sprinklers to water just at ground level, or bigger sprinklers to
get larger areas. On my front yard set-up I even have a BIG sprinkler
attached to the system that waters my entire front grass, while the flower
bed sprinklers just water their rerspective plants, only.
Sorry for being so wordy .. just hope it helps.
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Natural Girl //(**)\\